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Mrs. Lea Ann Garfias | April 2, 2011
The homeschool community in America has been in an uproar for the past week. Online message boards, Facebook communities, and Twitter accounts have been frantically exchanging information and conversation on recent events. Questions have arisen. Accusations have flown. Statements have been made. Stands have been taken. There is much to be concerned about. We are [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 18, 2011
Lee Ann Garfias has written an excellent review of a new Bible curriculum and addresses the importance of not censoring Scripture for our children but giving them the whole counsel of God: Sin, grace, salvation, and the cross are not “adult concepts” but are rather part of the gospel message preached to all. But Jesus [...]
Meredith | November 22, 2010
Since I am approaching my “graduation” from stay-at-home daughterhood, as I will move on to my new career description as a stay-at-home wife in just a few months, I thought it would be beneficial to reflect on these past four years. The choice to live at home with one’s parents instead of going away to college or [...]
Tiffany | September 5, 2010
At church on Sunday morning, one of our elders, while giving his sermon, asked if there were any little children who would like to come up to the front of the church and tell everyone something they know about God. Getting up in front of our large church and speaking would be scary enough as [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 14, 2010
Thank you to Ann over at Holy Experience for recommending this piece: Here’s a Twilight Zone-type premise for you. What if surgeons never got to work on humans, they were instead just endlessly in training, cutting up cadavers? What if the same went for all adults – we only got to practice at simulated versions [...]
Rose | June 15, 2010
Our homeschool experience began in 1989 with a cute, wiggly five year old kindergartner. In the late eighties homeschooling was unusual. In 1992, I became a single mother and continued to homeschool. While homeschooling was uncommon at that time, doing it solo was unheard of. There were those who meant well by telling me to [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 10, 2010
From Joel McDurmon over at American Vision: A college degree guarantees you nothing. It could, in fact, ruin your future. There was a time when having a college degree almost guaranteed you a “good job,” certainly one that pays better than those not requiring a bachelor’s degree. Parents then determined that the costs involved added [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 19, 2010
From Mercator.net: Here is a question that interests me a lot: Are we pushing too many high school graduates into university/college education? Recently on Mercatornet Thomas C Reeves suggested that we are. The New York Times last week discussed the same question, and the Wall Street Journal implied it with an opinion piece on graduate [...]
Jasmine Baucham | May 17, 2010
After I graduated high school in 2007, I was faced countless times with a very common question: “Where are you going to school?” College is such a cultural “coming of age” and a “rite of passage” that few ever considered the possibility that I would not be stepping onto a college campus sometime soon. They [...]
Luci | May 10, 2010
Not for young readers. When discussing the many advantages of homeschooling, many parents are confronted with the question: “But what about the ‘good’ public schools? Why would you not send your children there?” Of all the challenges to homeschooling, this question is perhaps among the most pernicious: being vague, it’s difficult for a parent to [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 5, 2010
Vision Forum Ministries is offering two LAF readers a free pass to a 7-week webinar, featuring authors including Dr. George Grant, Dr. Voddie Baucham, and Douglas Bond (whose historical fiction adventures are a staple in the Chancey household!): Gather your family for seven engaging evenings of learning online as part of Vision Forum’s exclusive Great [...]
