Do you want to attend a homeschool conference? The short answer is yes! In a few months the homeschool conference season will be upon us. And no matter what state you live in, you’re sure to have several conferences and conventions to choose from – huge regional conventions, large state curriculum fairs or more intimate [...]

Here at Home Educating Family we know it’s nice to have a little fun in the middle of your week.  Stop by each Wednesday to see what the current giveaway is. Entries close midnight on Saturday, Pacific Time, and random U.S. winners will be notified by email and announced on the next giveaway. You can [...]

Organization that is glorifying to God requires more than just effective time man­agement. Biblically, time is a commodity that God wants us to spend for his glory and purpose. Psalm 139:16 says, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” This is an intriguing understanding [...]

It was so funny.  I had my 7 year old daughter using Cutie orange boxes as drawer organizers.  She looked at me and said, “It’s so cute.” “Really?” I asked. “Mommy,” she said, “I’m being sarcastic!”  It was a double “hoot!”  First, she was trying to make a joke, and second, because she had to [...]

Welcome to another weekend. I hope you’re able to have some fun time in the midst of all the other things you have to do. Why not treat yourself to some reading across various topics from our Home Educating Family team? These are all links to their personal sites. Enjoy! Author and Review Team participant [...]

We log well over 180 days of school a year. In the middle of all of that we take holiday breaks, have out-of-town specialist appointments, therapy sessions, and sick days. Most “school” days we do our book work. The girls do the “three R’s” on grade level; then we do science, social studies, and Bible [...]

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:2-3 [...]

Looking at the statistics for this blog so far, three out of the top ten most-visited posts have been about special needs–thirty percent! I’d say that means we’re reaching an important part of the homeschooling community. We’re thrilled with the responses we’ve gotten to these posts! Just for a heads-up, we will be having a [...]

Growing up homeschooled in the eighties and nineties gave my little sister and me the time, focus, dedication, drive, and commitment that it took to fulfill (almost) every little girl’s dream:  becoming ballerinas. Of course there are little girls who scoff at tutus and tiaras and dream instead of cowgirl boots and mud pies (like [...]

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we asked Shari Popejoy to share some thoughts on marriage with us. Shari and Marc Popejoy have been making sparks fly for almost twenty-eight years. Their marriage has been the catalyst for some great chemical reactions over the years, producing her first book, Won Without Words, a book about God’s restoration [...]

Today we have an excerpt from Heidi St. John’s book The Busy Homeschool Mom’s Guide to Romance. At the end you will find a link to a review and giveaway of her book! It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Oh the bliss! Love is in the air. Or at least chocolate and candy sales are up… How’s [...]

Thursday I highlighted our Review Department and we got to know the team a little bit better. This week and next, at least, I’ll be sharing some blog posts from their personal blogs. Ann has a great post about kids and building forts. Hey, maybe you and your kids could build a fort on Valentine’s [...]

When I first read about Visual Spatial learning a light bulb flashed above my head and I declared out loud, “That’s Logan!” I stumbled across this learning style by simply entering in the keywords autism spectrum and learning styles into Google and, POOF! There in all its black-and-white glory were an abundance of articles pertaining [...]

I’m the co-author of the recently released Chasing Mona Lisa, a World War II thriller that takes place during the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The fast-paced plot centers around the most famous painting in the world—Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. Naturally, I did a lot of research about the Mona Lisa, [...]

If you subscribe to Home Educating Family Magazine, you may have noticed that the main categories on the blog correspond to sections of the magazine (The Point, The Hub, The Pace, etc.). However, if you examine the table of contents closely, you’ll see one section is missing on the blog–The Craze. Don’t worry–that’s on purpose! [...]

“Well, then, just date her!” When my husband uttered those words to me a few years ago, I never imagined what an important role they would play in our home and school. At that point in time, we were a couple of years into our homeschooling adventure, and concern about the possible impact of the [...]

There are a few things I’ve learned in my time as a home educator. We all carry some common character traits. We are all rebels, revolution­aries, and innovators. Not one of us decided to become home educators because we were looking for the easy route. Not one of us chose home educating because we were [...]

If you have not already done so, the spring of your sophomore year is the ideal time for you to start working on standardized exam prep. Let’s face it, standardized exams are incredibly important when it comes to the college application process. A few points difference on the ACT or SAT can easily translate into [...]

Last Saturday one of our readers stopped by the Home Educating Family Facebook page with this question: I just saw a cover for Newsweek, and one of the teaser headlines is “Are Homeschoolers Out Of Their Minds?”…. anyone know what that’s about? Considering it was attached to THIS cover, a lot of people got riled [...]

Every Thursday night our family loads up in the car and heads to inner city Little Rock. This includes me, my husband, our homeschooled 17-year-old son, our toddler, and sometimes my college-age daughter. We set out on a special mission, to serve teen moms in the area through a program called Teen MOPS. Teen MOPS [...]