by Bob Wiesner | For most, the time eventually comes when small jobs such as baby sitting or yard care must give way to more formal work situations.
Read More »‘Keep Your Dad Home’ Day
Years ago, someone popularized the idea of dad taking his child to work for a day.
Read More »Before You Apply: 4 Considerations Before Your First Job
by Philomena Kelly | There are several reasons why getting a job seems like a great option for homeschooling high schoolers.
Read More »Who’s in Control? My Lesson on Trust in God, Graduation & Debt
The economy crashed during my junior year of college, so the happy, optimistic girl who entered college was not the same one a few months after graduation when I was ...
Read More »How to Tell if You’re Working for God… or for Yourself
by Lorraine Espenhain | If our motives for working give value to our labors for God, how can we be sure that those labors are done for love of God and not to promote and glorify self?
Read More »4 Proven Ways to Teach Your Kids Responsibility
Responsibility is an utterly essential part of the homeschool curriculum and gives busy homeschooling moms and dads some much needed practical help.
Read More »All Things Work Together
According to Romans 8:28, “In all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” When things are going well ...
Read More »Help! My High-Schooler Hasn’t Been Truthful About Doing His Work. I Can’t Keep Track of Everything!
by Mary Kay Clark | This can be a problem when a student is old enough to work on his own, but doesn’t really have sufficient supervision of his work.
Read More »Three Lessons from St. John Paul II’s Encyclical ‘On Human Work’
by Marc Postiglione | Modern man has tended to make work become a form of drudgery that people go to every morning and do their best to avoid and when possible even avoid all-together.
Read More »St Joseph: Model for Fathers, Protector of Families
by Sarah Rose | The month of March is dedicated to Saint Joseph. Chosen by God to be the foster-father of Jesus, Saint Joseph is perhaps the greatest saint, the one person, after Mary, closest to the Heart of Jesus.
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 »College Isn’t for Everyone!
Seton is clearly a rigorous academic program, designed to enable students to excel in college. But, for any number of good reasons, many Seton graduates do not continue their studies after high school. Truth to tell, a liberal arts college education really is not mandatory for success in life or salvation; students who choose to enter the work force or the trades after high school are not therefore second-class citizens!
Read More »Celebrate the Simple Moments of Life! Lattes and Cinnamon Rolls Count.
I am convinced – utterly convinced – that if we all got together more often in order to celebrate the simple occasions in life, we would be a happier people. Each generation seems to be growing more and more isolated than the generation that preceded it. American society is fast becoming an isolated society.
Read More »Unfinished Work
In Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” the narrator spends an entire day from morning till evening picking all the apples before the first frost of the season. He has spent the ...
Read More »Independent Work
Many home schooling teachers wonder how much parental help with schoolwork is too much. Some would like to sit with each individual student, but simply do not have the time. ...
Read More »Sawyer and Cervantes
Sancho Panza, the comical squire of the illustrious Don Quixote who vowed to restore knight-errantry into a debased world and recover the Golden Age, once told his master, “An ass ...
Read More »Book Report Detective Work
Book reports are demanding of the student because they require analytical thinking. They require that the student come to a conclusion based on evidence, and then prove the conclusion by ...
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