Beginning at Age Three

    You have made the biggest decision already which is to homeschool.  Doing so ‘from the beginning’ is a lovely way to build your home culture to weave fully with a culture of education, building a library in your home as you collect books, and blend learning with...

Success in Our Day to Day

Parent: I feel like I have hit a brick wall with homeschooling 4 of my kids: 7 years old, 8 years, 10, and 12 years old.  I have a 1 year old as well. I feel as though I am failing them. It kills me to think of putting them in public school I want this to work. We...

End of Year Fizzles

What leads to burn out at this time of year? How can we instead be encouraged, or at least enjoy a motivated push toward the finish line? We have had lovely Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, perhaps a Winter Break and a Spring Break, yet April and May are the times...

Take a Leap of Faith for your Child

MAMA L:   I was watching the video about midterm reports and you mentioned something about having a defiant child who needed to unschool possibly.  (remember Faithful Scholars’ members, you have accesss to our Video Library- the link was sent with your Welcome...

Why Do You Home School?

Reason Number 5024… …Okay, so maybe we should begin with reason one as that is what got each of us to take this leap of faith plunging our families into these inexplicably, unexpectedly beautiful waters of the perfect IEP (Individualized Educational Plan)....