Learning is a life-long activity. You likely agree with that as a homeschooler since you’ve taken on the challenge and joy of educating your children. One of our final ‘tasks’ in educating our children is to guide them in the right direction for their post-secondary education and career choices – and ideally instilling in them a love of life-long learning.

With five of eight graduated from our homeschool, we have seen those post-homeschool paths take different directions. My first two sons went the university route and both benefitted in their careers because of it. (Their career choices required college degrees.)

Educating at home provides so much freedom in the way we teach our children. There are a variety of learning materials that we can choose from, but most of us have had the experience of choosing something that just doesn’t seem to work as well for one child as it can for another.

Read the Christmas traditions from a few of our staff to hear directly from the people behind The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine.

Hey Mama, Be careful. It’s the time of year when the wonder of the season is lost in the chaos of the moment. Hold on to the wonder. . . hold it fast . . . and hold on to the One this season is all about—JESUS! It’s His day. It’s His time. It’s His moment, if you’ll let it be.

It might come as a bit of a shock to some people (especially non-homeschoolers) that we take the entire month of December off from school every year.

Psst . . . {in a whisper voice} How much quiet time do you get? I’m going to share a bit on the power of silence to raise strong and resilient children. However, as with teaching life skills in general, our kids ‘pick up’ most of what they learn in this area by what they see us, and others they regularly spend time with, do.

The Bible resource we use is . . . the Bible. As soon as our kids can read Genesis 1:1, they get their own large print Bible and off we go! This is the most important textbook in our homeschool. Here are just seven reasons why: