Ginny Seuffert knows how travelling, keeping the home 'guest-ready', and socializing can feel like too much work. Here are ideas to kickstart family fun!
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Ginny Seuffert March 1, 2010 6,830 Views
Ginny Seuffert knows how travelling, keeping the home 'guest-ready', and socializing can feel like too much work. Here are ideas to kickstart family fun!
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Homeschool veteran Ginny Seuffert walks us through three areas in which students often need help: math, foreign languages and dual enrollments. Seton’s proven high school program, focused on excellence, with ...
Read More »Dr. Mary Kay Clark January 1, 2010 5,502 Views
While we often tell stories to our young children without books, also be sure to read stories showing pictures in a picture book. Read to your child stories of saints, ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert January 1, 2010 6,221 Views
This column is intended to support and encourage Seton parents by giving practical tips based on my own two- decade experience home schooling with the Seton program. Occasionally, my spirit ...
Read More »Contributing Writers November 4, 2009 7,070 Views
by Erin Duffy The first thing to realize when teaching a child to write is that writing is a skill. Obviously, the gift of a natural talent for writing is ...
Read More »Dr. Mary Kay Clark November 1, 2009 7,432 Views
Raising kids Catholic is what home schooling is all about for us Catholics. However, sometimes parents lose sight of the big picture and focus too much on the immediate picture. ...
Read More »Dr. Mary Kay Clark October 1, 2009 7,274 Views
The home schooling apostolate is a truly counter cultural movement, a contradiction to the current self-obsessed culture. The home schooling apostolate is evidence of an attitude of service to others ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert October 1, 2009 7,065 Views
Last month’s column talked about the importance of perseverance from a spiritual point of view. This month, we will tackle more practical concerns. Here are some real questions and my ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert September 28, 2009 7,219 Views
I spoke to the mother of a large family the other day who told me she dreads the beginning of the school year. Although she has been teaching her children ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert August 1, 2009 8,085 Views
Leaving my family on weekends during the spring and summer home school conference season is tough, but it affords me a unique opportunity to meet you—homeschooling parents—and to learn firsthand ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert July 28, 2009 9,551 Views
Figures released by the United States Department of Education show the changing face of home education in the country. One attention-grabbing statistic shows the number of home-schooled children in the ...
Read More »Contributing Writers June 4, 2009 8,644 Views
In homeschooling, aim at certain academic excellence. I claim that is the bonus that is always thrown in. If you seek first to defer harm, if secondly you permeate the ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert May 1, 2009 7,049 Views
These trying economic times may have a bright side. As more parents worry about meeting the mortgage and putting food on the table, Catholic school tuition (averaging $3,500 per year in elementary school and over $10,000 for high school) often becomes an impossible expense.
Read More »Contributing Writers April 2, 2009 6,415 Views
No one will be saved unless he practices the Charity of sharing the Faith with others. Parents have the principal responsibility to share the Faith with their children. The purpose ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert March 28, 2009 6,944 Views
To steal a phrase from Charles Dickens, for the Catholic Church the beginning of the Third Millennium is the best of times and the worst of times. On one hand, ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert February 1, 2009 6,258 Views
Ginny Seuffert explores her three biggest and basic ways to become fit, remain healthy, and instill healthy habits in our children. And they're not hard!
Read More »Ginny Seuffert January 1, 2009 5,375 Views
As you read this column, a large segment of the country is dark and cold, and kids are sick and tired of being cooped up in the house. Lesson plans ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert December 1, 2008 5,054 Views
In the mid twentieth century, John Holt attempted to popularize a method of home education, called un-schooling, which calls for parents to provide a rich environment in the home which ...
Read More »Ginny Seuffert November 1, 2008 7,343 Views
When I was a child, I loved reading so much that my mother had to pry me away from my books to get me to eat meals. As a result, ...
Read More »Dr. Mary Kay Clark October 1, 2008 7,761 Views
Parents often call our counselors and tell them that their boys don’t like to write. What many do not realize, unless they have several sons, is that most boys don’t ...
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