Homeschool Update Archives

Parents all over China look at Zheng Yaqi’s success and wonder if maybe homeschooling has contributed to his creative endeavors.

Trying comparing these categories: responsibility, academics, supplementary curriculum, values, safety, and environment.

As you learn about your children, you are better able to adapt your environment for them, enabling them to be even more successful.

God said training children while walking pays off (Deuteronomy 6:7), and He’s right. Here’s how it has for us...

Proponents of daytime curfews have good intentions: to decrease juvenile crime and increase the high school graduation rate.

Through these regular practices, students gain invaluable writing skills that will serve them well in college and in real life.

When children are motivated they have a zest for learning that extends beyond Legos and bikes to science, history, and literature.

Tthe word “Atari,” the brand name of one of the original video game platforms, means in Japanese “you’re about to become engulfed.”

Are you working at home with a bright, hardworking child or teenager who has to work too hard to learn?

The pleasures of homeschooling our children are many, the rewards great, and the challenges plentiful.

Home-educated graduates are the most likely to get divorced? Most likely to feel prepared for a vibrant spiritual life?

In this edition of "Kids Talk About God" Carey Kinsolving gets child-like perspectives on the definition of goodness.

Parents often ask my wife Missy and me why we give classic literature such a prominent place in our curriculum.

“Word calling” is a left-brain task, while creating a "picture"of those words is the responsibility of the right-brain hemisphere.

The first Greek epic was invented even before the Greek alphabet was finished.