By guest author Patricia Dotten Yesterday I got coffee with a friend, a homeschool mom of four children ages 7–17. As we sat and sipped our lattes, she started bemoaning the state of her homeschooling: “I haven’t done enough school this year. My...
By Shari McMinn Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.(Proverbs 5:18 ESV) Remaining happily married is a challenge for most couples. It is even more difficult when you are raising unique learners, but is crucial to...
By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Don’t Fall for the Rhetoric They knew. Elected official across the state and lawmakers at the Capitol knew every property owner in Colorado would see a substantial increase in property taxes...
By Ashley Vaughan Too much. Never enough. Unwanted. Failure. Too loud, too quiet, too much of a stickler for the rules. Labels. They cut, wound, and leave scars. Living in a fallen world, we can accumulate labels from others as we go through life....
By guest author Steve Demme In a past newsletter (click here to read), I wrote about how being a father led me to Deuteronomy 6. When I began asking God to help me love Him, God revealed how much He loved me. The more I comprehended His love, the...
By Shari McMinn And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years (Genesis 1:14 ESV). I love how God created the signs and seasons,...
By Carolyn Martin (Director of Government Relations) Summer is generally the time when you start to see people hanging outside of the local grocery store or library asking you to sign a petition to get an initiative on the ballot. (Yes, it’s that...
By Julianna Duerksen Twenty-six years ago, my mom showed up with six-month-old me to attend her first-ever CHEC Homeschool Conference. The halls were bustling with enthusiasm, she remembers, as that first generation of homeschoolers planned and...
