Homeschooling should be both engaged and engaging and, at times, wonderfully complicated.

Faithful Scholars meets you in all of these places through:

• Growing list of in-person events
• Umbrella Skye online/app parent community & helpdesk
• Faithful Scholars website content & hand-holding support
• A constantly expanded vision of meeting your needs

Each of us has chosen to be fully present with our children, 24/7/365, with the shared goal of raising individuals of strong moral and educational character.

Our Three Most Important Tools

1. Our personal knowledge and experience
2. Books, curriculum, and other resources
3. Community, which is perhaps the most important and most often overlooked

But there is one little problem… How do you find your people when you school at home?

1. Co op
2. Church
3. Parks
4. Grocery store lines
5. In-person Faithful Scholars’ events

Faithful Scholars is creating more in-person opportunities each year because you have asked for more face-to-face homeschool community.

And honestly, all that is missing is you!

Creating an amazing, smooth flowing day-to-day homeschool experience that expands imaginations and develops critical-thinking skills requires dedicated focus.

But even the most dedicated homeschool parent can become a little myopic when working alone.

We can:

• Fall into repetitive routines
• Lose perspective
• Question whether what we’re doing is actually working
• Get stuck on the same lesson for what feels like 47 years
• And eventually find ourselves staring at a lesson while our child considers how to jump ship

That is where in-person community comes in. We all want it, but our automated societal norms have quite honestly, well, er, can I say this out loud? – made us lazy. I know because I fight the same battle. (What? Leave my home? As in, get in the car and drive out of the neighborhood? Gasp!) So we ask, but we do not show up.

Find Your Homeschool People

Come find friends with whom you can share:

• Ideas
• Inspiration
• Defeats
• Questions
• Encouragement
• Laughter
• Joy
• Friendship

Together, we can nurture self-governed, lifelong learners who we are preparing to be the future world changers, or maybe just a positive person able to support themself.

The Faithful Scholars Option 3 Association and the Umbrella Skye online parent community walk alongside you daily, helping you shift your energy toward:

• A simpler approach
• A beautiful homeschool lifestyle
• Greater confidence
• More connection
• Less isolation

Friendship Is the Secret Sauce

• Brighten a parent’s day through a quick text of encouragement
• Provide fresh perspective when the homeschool wheels feel a little wobbly through shared ideas/experiences
• Remind you that you’re not the only one navigating homeschool
• Put a little spark under those lollygagging students by a planned study together day or a play date
• Give you someone with whom to celebrate the wins
• Give you someone who understands the hard days without requiring a 45-minute explanation

Greater joy comes from sharing the journey– in person!

Let’s Build Community Together

Our gatherings are opportunities to build the friendships that can carry your family through the many seasons of homeschooling.

Join us for:

• 🍦 Family Ice Cream Socials
• 🏕️ Family campouts
• 💕 Moms’ Night Out
• 🎓 Graduation celebrations
• 🌿 Moms’ retreats (to be added as location/time are available –send us your affordable ideas!)
• 🌳 Park days (to be added as we find mom-hosts –email us your willingness and favorite park!)

Let’s Create Homeschool In-Person Social Pods Across South Carolina

Our vision is to create many pods of homeschool groups across SC, shaped and carried forward by the incredible homeschooling mamas who know what their local families need.

To make that happen, we need willing hands, feet, and hearts.

You can help by hosting a social event:

• Moms’ Night Out
• Park day
• Tea and talk gathering
• A homeschool social
• Any opportunity for moms/children/families to connect

You don’t have to create the whole thing alone.

Email us with your willingness to host, and we will help promote your event.

Because building a foundation of lifelong connection takes showing up, growing together, and finding those people who make the journey a little lighter…..One friend at a time.

Our Spring Cane Creek camping trip always comes at the perfect and needed time for unwind time in the woods or on the lake. The children are beyond welcoming of new faces as well as excited to connect with their Cane Creek buddies and run around playing large group games throughout the days and evenings. 

TRIP DETAILS:
• Location: Cane Creek Campground, 2525 Cane Creek Rd, Waxhaw, NC 28173
• Activities: Enjoy hiking, paddle boarding, boating, fishing, and nearby local Waxhaw

Feel free to invite your friends—all are welcome (this is not a Faithful Scholars’ event, simply a wonderful gathering put together by an amazing homeschooling mama!)

contact/questions

Our summer campout coincides with unique hands on Hagood Mill summer immersion youth camp where they teach the beautiful arts of the Upstate and immerse into SC history, nature, and culture. We have enjoyed this camp so much that my daughter volunteers as an assistant as often as she is able and I hang out by the cool babbling brook.

This is primitive camping with an amazing bath house and world-class disc golf course and nearby hiking.

This is not an official Faithful Scholars’ nor homeschool specific event. All are welcome!

Reserve your space directly with Hagood Mill offices. Contact or call 864-898-2936