Seton Magazine Catholic Homeschool Articles, Advice & Resources

Understanding current events is essential to the learning process, but as Jennifer Elia explains, parents should be the newscasters for their children.

Patriotism is more than sentiment; it is a Catholic virtue. Jennifer Hansen shares 6 tips in a quick guide of how to serve God through being a good citizen.

By learning a foreign language we become more aware of a country’s history, literature, art, and popular culture and able to connect with more people.

Ginny Seuffert helps counsel parents here at Seton, and often shares with them different places to visit for hands on experience to learning history!

Government schools have purposefully chosen to ignore God, and that while students may choose to believe in God, this is a belief which students must leave outside the classroom door. Since the government schools and textbooks reflect this denial of the existence of God in what is taught and how it is taught...

9-11: Eleven Years Later Where were you eleven years ago today? “September 11, 2001, was the deadliest day in history for New York Cityfirefighters: 343 were killed.” www.history.com Eleven years ...

History Professor Dr. Brendan McGuire had stumbled upon Byzantine ruins, half-buried in the middle of a city block in an unfrequented, impoverished neighborhood.

While visiting the National Shrine of St Elizabeth Ann Seton, Anna Jehorek was in for an inspiring and unexpected history lesson on the Sisters of Charity.

It could be said, without exaggeration, that the family is the engine of the world and of history.

by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | Sometimes a homeschooling group gets very enthusiastic about activities, such as plays, dances, and sports.

by Kevin Clark | The legislature of Arizona recently passed a law which allows a business to assert a free exercise defense if it is accused of discrimination for refusing to provide a service to a customer. The Arizona law, which has gone to Governor Jan Brewer to sign or veto, closely tracks the wording of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

by Kevin Clark | Suppose that the Supreme Court had decided against Hobby Lobby. What would they have done?

by Kevin Clark | Whenever the idea of freedom of religion comes up, someone invariably mentions that it includes 'freedom from religion'.

To teach the Catholic Faith without government interference, since its founding by Warren Carroll, Christendom College has never accepted federal funding.

Seton Home Study School curriculum helps address the challenges even when home is as varied as Russia, Mexico, Paraguay, Lithuania, or even Wuhan, China.

Is there still time to save a generation of children from public schools? Ginny Seuffert's clarion call for Grandma to help homeschool their grandchildren.

For most of my adult life, I have had my most important conversations around breakfast time. This seems to point to one of two possibilities: first, the restful sleep from ...

by Ginny Seuffert | Gatto’s Third Theme is that students must gain insight into major institutional forms including courts, military, and corporations, as well as the ideas that drive them. By truly understanding these institutions, students mature into responsible citizens who will not be persuaded by opinion-makers in the major media, but will be capable of forming intelligent, independent judgments, and then acting on them.

by Dr Mary Kay Clark | Junipero Serra was born in 1713 and grew up on an island off the east coast of Spain. Junipero’s family lived in a farming community where children helped their parents on the family farm.

When my oldest son, Athanasius, was 11 years old, I took him to a baseball camp run by Hall-of-Famer Cal Ripken. As we parents excitedly watched our children with visions ...