Homeschool Archives

Why choose homeschooling? Karen Kunkel shares ten reasons.

From sexually provocative media, to the influence of bad boy athletes and self-indulgent celebrities, to violent video games… the cultural undertow...

A number of moms confess to me that they've given up teaching writing. Some say that whenever they give their students writing assignments, crying...

Your children need to understand they are not the sum of the clothes they wear, the things they own, the friends they make, or the honors they earn...

I hear this all the time from young people…"I want to make decisions for myself. I want to be in control of my own life..."

The following suggestions might be summed up as Sticky History for Dummies (like me). I have arranged these suggestions so that the first letters...

How true that we reap what we sow! If we sow kindness to our children, we will reap a harvest of kind children. Our children will mirror our...

Jackie met someone at work and claimed to be in love. "I thought a lot about it and even prayed. I'm moving in with Tom," she insisted. The Smiths...

While many of us think of pine trees when we hear the word evergreen, the family actually includes a huge variety of plants, many of which have...

"On Christmas Eve, Dad returned without the deer he had hoped to shoot. There was no money for gas, for food or anything else..."

A few small changes in the way that you operate your home these last few weeks of the year can make your home more welcoming for your teen; turning...

The following seven points can help us get through a holiday fraught with emotion, keep our important family traditions, blend in our new children,...

Parents cannot be spectators in the lives of their children, but should set rules, establish expectations, enforce limitations, and constantly...

After police barged into the Busekros family home in Bavaria, the family's 15-year-old daughter, Melissa, was placed in a psychiatric facility....

One way to make writing easier is to break the process into parts so that you can focus on each step individually.