Homeschool Update Archives

It can be difficult to give teens meaningful gifts that they will actually use. Here are 10 awesome Christian, Young Adult fiction books and a...

For homeschooling, there is no need to take off days for holidays. Instead of seeing these days as time off from classes, reconfigure your thinking...

In today’s world, kids have more commitments than ever before. Sporting events, play practice and other events both after school and weekends can...

I like public school. I like private Christian school, too, but memories from public school sure do bring a smile to my face. I grew up going to a...

Around age thirteen, when I realized she was coming quickly to the end of what we would formally cover through high school, I started thinking...

If I don’t lay down the plan, if I am not the chief architect laying out what manhood looks like, then I can rest assured that the world will draft...

Monica Swanson, author of BOY MOM, shares how she prepares her sons to make the right kinds of friends, and therefore the right kinds of...

Teaching World War I as a unit study to children on all grade levels can be a challenge; however, with a bit of creativity and some fun resources,...

Sometimes our homeschooling needs "something", some kind of a spark, something new and different, something that doesn't necessarily involve...

In this day and age, in the sex-craved society we live in, I would challenge you to add sexual integrity to your list of wants for your children....

What happens when divorce or unmarried couple disagree about homeschooling?

The decision of which foreign language to study is an important one and is often one of the first big academic decisions in which the student has...

Turns out, preschool at home was a pleasure both to our son and to me.

Whether you interpret Proverbs 22:6 as a promise for raising your kids “in the Lord” or a warning about not doing so, there’s one thing we know:...

As a mom, I think often of our children and how I should prepare them to hear from God. Here are some concrete ways.