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)....

A Main Stream Education Option: HomeSchool

Home School being main stream seems counter intuitive and even counter cultural but it is true.  There are more homeschoolers across the nation than private schoolers! There are so many choices in curriculum, co ops, programs, on line classes, dual enrollment, etc...

Immediate VS Lasting Education

Every homeschool parent is positive she is going to miss something along the way, and she is correct.  The teacher across the school hall is also missing something as is the college professor.  No one person can cover it all, but one person can know what is needed by...