By guest author Pete Olson
How do we as homeschool families balance reaching out to others and protecting our children from the world? Homeschool father and pastor Pete Olson gives some insight in this interview.
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By guest author Pete Olson
How do we as homeschool families balance reaching out to others and protecting our children from the world? Homeschool father and pastor Pete Olson gives some insight in this interview.
By Legislative Liaison Carolyn Martin
Parental Rights: A Cornerstone
If families are the bedrock of a healthy, thriving society, parental rights are the cornerstone. Many bills this session threaten to weaken that cornerstone by chipping away at parents’ ability to direct the upbringing, care, and education of their children. One bill in particular has gained much attention: HB19-1032 Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education.
Read MoreBy guest author David Watkins
I was reading a small periodical recently and came across a story about the great physicist, Albert Einstein. It immediately reminded me of something I occasionally see manifested in veteran home educators. The story goes like this:
“Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there, so he looked in his briefcase but could not find his ticket. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t find it.
Read MoreBy Legislative Liaison Carolyn Martin
Awakening to the Danger
Hundreds of concerned citizens from all across Colorado swarmed the Capitol building two weeks ago to voice their opposition to the latest iteration of Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education (HB19-1032). In a previous post I explained more about this bill; suffice it to say it is a bad bill. At its core, this bill attempts to normalize behavior and ideology that is contrary to God’s Word. Those who testified at the public hearing were left dissatisfied, at the end of ten and half hours, with the party-line vote that pushed the bill to the next step in the process. After passing through the House Appropriations Committee on another party-line vote this week, the bill will be debated on the House floor soon. Out of all the bills presented so far this session, this one is causing people to wake up to the danger that lies before us.
Read Moreby Julianna Dotten
Homeschooling won’t save us.
I know that may sound obvious (after all, we wouldn’t change our creed to “I believe in the power of homeschooling …”). But somehow, the thinking tends to creep into our lives. We get so excited about this new life calling that it begins to dominate everything. We blog about it. Talk about it. Make friends with those who do it.
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