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You have your curriculum picked out, you are working on planning, you’re feeling somewhat confident about your decision, and then the question comes…have you found a homeschool community or group? Wait… what? You may ask yourself, “I have to find a homeschool group?”  And then, a new round of research ensues, and you’re faced with...

Finding the right curriculum for your family can be challenging. There are so many choices and variables to consider. You have to ask questions like, “Is this curriculum designed in a way that will cater to my child’s interests and learning style?” “Will it be easy to jump in and start teaching, or will it...

An oracle concerning the valley of vision. (Isaiah 22:1) My morning and evening readings often include a selection from The Valley of Vision. This is a collection of Puritan prayers and devotions first published in 1975 and in its sixteenth printing as of 2018. Each prayer has a poetic form that eases comprehension, enlarges and...

Have you ever wondered how the creation of the Apologia student notebooks came to be? Have you ever asked yourself whether or not you really needed the student notebooks? Have you thought to yourself, “I wonder if these can be used in a homeschool co-op setting”? Listen in as Davis Carman talks with Vicki Dincher,...

Along with Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella of Schoolhouse Rocked, Rachael Carman discusses how this whole motherhood thing can drive you out of control if you’re not intentional. With over 25 years of homeschool experience, Rachael narrowed down a power-packed list of 7 simple steps to sanity. This is applicable to wives, mothers, and homeschool...

Motherhood is exhilarating.  It is far more of every emotion than I could have ever imagined- more challenging, more joyous, more encouraging, more exhausting, more work, and more rewarding. Every emotion is heightened, every conviction is confronted, every hope is required and every aspect of love is tested. Pregnancy has been one of my favorite...

After 26 years of homeschooling, and seven graduates to show for it, I am intimately familiar with homeschool graduations. Just like public and private school commencement exercises, a homeschool graduation is a ceremony where students who have completed their high school education at home receive a diploma and are recognized for their achievements. These ceremonies...

In this 3-part audio series, Rachael Carman speaks with Yvette Hampton of Schoolhouse Rocked to talk all about parenting “that child.” Rachael has spoken all over the country, with permission from her son to moms, on this very relatable topic. If you have a child in your family that is more challenging for you than...

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’ — Genesis 2:16-17 Plenty of problems exist in the...

In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us… — John 1:1, 3,...