by guest author Patricia Dotten [Welcome to part two of this series on help for teaching resistant learners. If you missed last week’s post, you can find part 1 here.] 4. Remember, homeschooling is really just doing LIFE with our children Play...
Resistant Learners: Help for the Journey Part 1
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...
Summer Struggles and Solutions
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,...
The Conference Changed My Family’s Life
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...
It’s Worth the Sacrifice to Stay Home
By Julianna Duerksen One of the biggest obstacles to homeschooling is the predicament of finances. How in the world can a family cut their income in half so mom can stay home full time to teach the kids? Especially in Colorado, with the insane...
Homeschooling Starts at Birth
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,...
Experiential Learning
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...
Doing Life Together
By author Shari McMinn When homeschooling unique learners, it is a necessary constant to work on relationships while doing ‘school.’ Three times a year, our family ditched the books altogether and enjoyed doing special things to make memories, draw...










