A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.

Mary Ellen Barrett shares her family's traditions, crafts, and recipes through the season of Advent with books and activities for saint and feast days too!

Making this Advent Calendar is a great way to keep your children in the spirit of Advent, and prepare for the coming of the Christ Child.

Mary Ellen Barrett shows us how opening your home to guests in the holiday season is an act of love, which blesses both your family and your guests.

Moms ask if you can provide a real childhood experience for your kids along with an excellent education. Yes, but there is a catch says Mary Ellen Barrett.

Summer, long car rides, and picnic blanket lunches - even occasional rainy days are all great times to introduce new ways to learn math with fun math games.

Mary Ellen has a fun craft for children to create pocket shrines honoring the Blessed Mother and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in their months of May and June.

Mary Ellen Barrett says family traditions are not only fun but extremely appealing to children because structure and routine are of great comfort to them.

A salt dough Crown of Thorns is a Lenten craft idea that you can use to point your children toward the Cross and show how their sacrifices will bear fruit.

The haven of homeschooling allows children to build up their resilience and acquire skills and formation to bring the change the world so desperately needs.

Join Mary Ellen Barrett and her family to invite Advent into your homeschool, creating traditions that will bind children to both their faith and family.

Mary Ellen Barrett shares five tried and true benefits of homeschooling and why including margin space gives children the room to just be themselves.

Mary Ellen challenges that while being a fiercely productive homeschool mom is not easy, the rewards are enormous, and if you follow these three simple tips you will see your productivity skyrocket.

As a young mom, Mary Ellen Barrett was caught off-guard when someone woke in the night sniffling, coughing, or worse, so she made up this shelf of supplies.

What will homeschooling look like tomorrow? Mary Ellen Barrett asked five Seton Magazine contributors for their thoughts on the future of homeschooling.

Mary Ellen Barrett on instilling a joy of learning in our children and why Seton Home Study School is adding more Read-Aloud books to the Pre-K curriculum.

Mary Ellen Barrett may not be a major league enthusiast but recognizes the importance of fitness and students learning cooperation and teamwork in sports.

Mary Ellen Barrett has spoken to hundreds of Seton moms and shares their best tips and tricks for using the lesson plans and getting the school work done.

by Mary Ellen Barrett | It’s been a rough summer for people of faith and family. We seem to be under attack on many fronts, especially by our own government whose very existence was founded...

by Mary Ellen Barrett | Since children can, just as easily as their moms, get a case of the February, late-winter blahs, it makes sense to bring a little life and color into the homeschool.