In responding to Blessed John Paul II’s call to the New Evangelization, let’s take as our model St. Maximillian Kolbe (1894-1941). With the Immaculata friars, he used the most modern ...
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Seton Home Study School July 12, 2012 7,371 Views
In responding to Blessed John Paul II’s call to the New Evangelization, let’s take as our model St. Maximillian Kolbe (1894-1941). With the Immaculata friars, he used the most modern ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert July 10, 2012 8,489 Views
The first two volumes of Ginny’s Gems have proved to be pretty popular — far better received than I ever expected. I have to confess that the whole idea behind ...
Read More »Bob Wiesner July 4, 2012 9,845 Views
Margaret Elizabeth Doolin was born in August of 1900. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, she became a nurse and was working in the Philippine Islands when World War II ...
Read More »Bob Wiesner July 3, 2012 11,181 Views
Fr. Emil Kapaun was a priest from the diocese of Wichita, Kansas. After ordination in 1940, he spent some time as a fill-in chaplain at a nearby military base while ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 19, 2012 6,094 Views
Who says Science has to be boring? Kathy Rinker shares just how much fun the Young Scientist Series is, and it is now available at Seton Educational Media!
Read More »Ginny Seuffert June 15, 2012 4,430 Views
I spent the first weekend in June at the one-day Immaculate Heart of Mary Conference in Lafayette, Louisiana. It’s one of my favorite places on earth, and the enthusiasm of ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 14, 2012 7,342 Views
Keep up with your child’s learning even with all the fun in the sun this summer with these helpful ideas, and make plans to attend Mass in the mornings!
Read More »Ginny Seuffert June 11, 2012 5,381 Views
I’m writing this post on an airplane heading towards on of the many Catholic homeschooling conferences I attend each spring and summer. Attendance at conferences is up this year after ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 8, 2012 8,315 Views
by Kathy Rinker Ok, so in my first post I outlined for you the praises of Chesterton and his writings. In my second post, I provided an assessment of Seton’s ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 6, 2012 7,121 Views
by Kathy Rinker I finished reading Seton’s edition of Ballad of the White Horse last week. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Now, I am by no means a ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 4, 2012 9,747 Views
by Kathy Rinker Great poetry seems difficult to come by these days, doesn’t it? This is one of the many reasons why Seton has carried G.K. Chesterton’s book Ballad of ...
Read More »Seton Home Study School June 4, 2012 9,095 Views
A fully-accredited, Catholic high school program providing an Advanced Academic Diploma designed to prepare the student for admission to a Military.........
Read More »Ginny Seuffert June 1, 2012 6,850 Views
A big benefit of home education is the opportunity to make sensible changes or additions to the curriculum to accommodate a particular child’s learning needs. Of course, the wise homeschooling mom realizes that modification needs to be implemented...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert May 17, 2012 6,592 Views
Last weekend, my daughter graduated from college. (Summa cum laude — those Seton grads do okay for themselves!) The commencement ceremony was being held in Springfield, Illinois, home to Abraham ...
Read More »Contributing Writers May 2, 2012 7,933 Views
by Jim Shanley John Clark has completed a series of conversations about a Father’s vocation on Johnnette Benkovic’s EWTN show Women of Grace. The shows take an in-depth look at ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert May 1, 2012 8,894 Views
by Ginny Seuffert | Clearly, modifying a curriculum plan to suit an individual student’s talents and abilities is an essential benefit of home schooling...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert April 28, 2012 8,689 Views
My two previous columns (available in the online newsletter archive) gave a brief history of the rise, and sadly the partial decline, of Catholic education in the United States. To ...
Read More »Marlicia Fernandez April 24, 2012 10,779 Views
Why do kids need to learn Manuscript (cursive?) today? What I mean is….we don’t write much by hand anymore, isn’t printing enough?
Read More »Ginny Seuffert March 28, 2012 6,717 Views
Ginny Seuffert explores the somewhat surprising history of the beginning of Catholic homeschooling, and its birth in the fading of parochial schools.
Read More »Contributing Writers March 8, 2012 5,430 Views
by Clare Schmitt One of our moms recently asked this question: “My son is in the 4th grade and seems to have trouble writing the paragraphs he is assigned. I ...
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