By Julianna Duerksen So many times, I’ve heard moms of littles share how overwhelming the thought of homeschooling is: “I could never do that!” Or, for those who’ve dared try, stress themselves out by recreating public school at home — desks,...
By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Silencing Opposition There is a haunting, raw cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Sound of Silence that expresses so vividly how “silence, like a cancer, grows” and produces “wells of...
by Shari McMinn You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV) As homeschool parents, we should...
by Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Are Parents Barriers? The United States remains the only nation who has not ratified the United Nations Convention of the Child (UNCRC) treaty — and for good reason. The right of...
by Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Silencing TruthGlimpses of truth, like beams of sunlight breaking through the clouds, can be seen in our culture despite attempts to silence it. At the Colorado legislature, the efforts to...
By Ashley Vaughan A phone was ringing. The shrill sound wasn’t out of the ordinary or unexpected, the phones had been ringing off their hooks for days now. Yet the 17-year-old intern at the next desk was in a quandary. She, and half of the staff,...
By Shari McMinn Destressing Your Homeschool Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving...
By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Danger Ahead There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Proverbs 16:25 A decade or so ago, there was a thriving homeschool support community out on the...
