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Old Fashioned Family Games Promote Family Unity

Family games nights are a positive way to help build a strong and united family.

Five Fantastic Ideas for a Family Games Night

Family games nights can provide so much fun while building deeper family ties. Here are five fantastic, inexpensive game ideas for your next family games night.

Getting Rid of the Grumbles in Homeschooling

If you are a parent to more than one child, then you will readily agree that each of our children is very different. They may have similar looks or traits, but in the end, each is unique and has different learning styles that they prefer.

Busyness: The Thief of Family Memories

“Seventeen summers” said the busy father, wistfully describing the memory of his oldest child growing up. He continued, “We get seventeen summer vacations, and then our children are gone.”

An Experience In Homeschooling (Or How I Snuffed The Fun Out Of Learning)

Homeschooling was never the plan. Just one of those things that evolved out of circumstance and chance.

Make the Most of Your Next Homeschool Convention

Conventions can be overwhelming! Here are a few tips to help you make the most of your convention experience.

Why NOT Public School?

A couple of years ago, while engaged in a conversation with a fellow homeschooler, I made a fairly extreme declaration: “I would never send my children to public school.”

Are Homeschoolers Changing?

Recently, I attended one of the annual homeschool conferences that I always attend. In the last several years, it has been impossible not to notice a changing “typical homeschooler.”

Mr. Pointy Nose

A government official checks up on a homeschooling family and is given pause to think.

Parents Beware!

Have you ever tried to define homeschooling? A homeschool is where parents teach their children at home instead of sending them to public or private school.