by Zaida Wohleking | Our family’s homeschooling experience began when our oldest daughter Bianca was in the seventh grade. She had been enrolled in private and parochial schools but as she was growing older,

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!

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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

Why do you have specific books assigned for the first and second quarter book reports in the elementary grades? Since our graders cannot be familiar with every book that might ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our question today is brought to you from a homeschooling mom: “What do you do with unmotivated kids, who try to beg and plead their way out of doing school ...

One afternoon, while I was sitting outside watching my last brain cell fly away hand in hand with my last nerve cell, my neighbor came by. She sat beside me ...

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...

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 ...

Devotion to Mary Queen of Apostles is one of the oldest in the Church. Traditionally, the feast has been celebrated on the first Saturday after the feast of the Ascension. ...

Marlicia Fernandez tells how dedicating the month of May to Mary is not only simply a tradition in the Americas, but in many other cultures as well.

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 ...

by Ginny Seuffert | Clearly, modifying a curriculum plan to suit an individual student’s talents and abilities is an essential benefit of home schooling...

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 ...

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?

Ginny Seuffert explores the somewhat surprising history of the beginning of Catholic homeschooling, and its birth in the fading of parochial schools.