To teach a virtue, I sometimes let my kids make unwise decisions which teaches them far more than I could by bailing them out.
Read More »Staff Profile – Bob Wiesner, Seton High School Counselor
Wiesner says it is always a good sign when kids call up and are thinking about things, that they take their studies seriously and they want to know more.
Read More »Fostering the Love of Learning with Seton’s Kathleen Hunt
Special Services Kathleen Hunt's aim at Seton and throughout her teaching career has always been to have her students experience the joy of learning!
Read More »When is the Best Time to Call a Seton Academic Counselor?
Is there a better time to call a Seton counselor? Should my child do every lesson in his workbook? How do I balance teaching my children and keeping our home tidy? Seton Home Study Director Dr. Mary Kay Clark answers these questions and more to improve your homeschooling experience.
Read More »The Economics of Cheerleading for the Seton Class of 2018
After writing Seton’s first online high school economics course, John Clark wants to compliment Seton's graduating seniors on their entertaining and technically excellent essays and their impressive thought process.
Read More »Courageous Catholic Teacher and Foundress St. Julie Billiart
Julie Billiart, was persecuted after the French Revolution but nothing would stop her from teaching Catholic children about Jesus and the Catholic Faith.
Read More »Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat Visionary Founder Pray for Us
Schools of Mother Barat succeeded because prayerful sisters in each country, inspired by the Sacred Heart of Jesus, were empowered to teach in unique ways.
Read More »St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Curriculum of Love and Care
Dr. Mary Kay Clark shares that St. Elizabeth Ann Seton taught to her students' needs and abilities and made love and caring the essence of her curriculum.
Read More »Teaching Self-Control to Young Children – Part 5: Sitting Still
Cheryl Hernández, homeschool mom of 9, gives tips on how to teach the virtue of self-control to young children. Part 5 of the series explores sitting still.
Read More »Great Family Projects: How Does Your Garden Grow?
It's time to start planning for your garden and learning to bloom this spring. Jennifer Elia has seven tips on how gardening has helped her curriculum grow.
Read More »9 Extraordinary Reasons to Be Grateful for Homeschooling
Amanda Evinger, homeschooling mother of three (and with one on the way) and author, helps us reflect on why we can be grateful for homeschooling this year.
Read More »The Most Important Message for Home Schooling Parents
Mary Kay Clark says the core of Catholic home schooling is living and loving the Catholic Faith and showing your children that Jesus is the Essence of life.
Read More »A Public School Teacher’s Decision to Homeschool
Christina Patterson was a public school teacher unsure about homeschooling. But having her first child changed her mind, and she's glad she's come home!
Read More »Our Adventures in Homeschooling & Country Living!
Amanda Evinger raises 3 kids in their little house on the prairie, which means their homeschooling is always being supplemented!
Read More »Head First: Our Surprising Homeschool Journey
By Maureen Stowell We are the last people that you would have thought would ever homeschool. My husband, Bruce, was a school board member for several years and president for ...
Read More »Pope Francis on Preparing the Soil
by Pope Francis | Children are not capable of accepting the faith by a free act, nor are they yet able to profess that faith on their own; therefore the faith is professed by their parents and godparents in their name. Since faith is a reality lived within the community of the Church
Read More »6 Ways We Taught Our Kids to do Chores… And Learn to Work
by Jennifer Tutwiler | These days, the measure of good parenting seems to be how care-free and enjoyable an existence we have enabled for our children. Children are expected to play with their toys, play outside, play with their friends, play sports, play with video games... and yet today’s children are some of the most behaviorally challenged in human history.
Read More »God’s Fatherhood as Role Model for Teaching
by Bl. Pope John Paul II | If it is true that by giving life parents share in God’s creative work, it is also true that by raising their children they become sharers in his paternal and at the same time maternal way of teaching. According to Saint Paul, God’s fatherhood is the primordial model of all fatherhood and motherhood in the universe (cf. Eph 3:14-15), and of human motherhood and fatherhood in particular.
Read More »Delighting in God: Praying for the Costume Catalog
When I went to retrieve the mail from my mailbox, I saw a Costume Express catalog in the stack of mail waiting for me. I smiled when I saw the catalog because it brought back a memory to me many years ago, when we were teaching our children about prayer.
Read More »5 Tips and Tricks for Teaching Math to Tikes!
Little learners still have to memorize their math facts— addition, and subtraction—and Mom, or in this case Grandma, still has to drill them. Each time I open Math 2 For Young Catholics to one of those long drill pages, I think to myself that it must seem like approaching Mt. Everest to a little kid.
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