by Diane Helfrich | Aug 13, 2021 | Middle School, Parental Rights, Reasons to Homeschool, Freedom to Homeschool, War on Homeschooling, Parenting, Considering Homeschooling, Culture, High School, NCHE Blog, Discipleship, Encouragement, Young Children, Community, Teaching Strategies, Homeschooling in Crisis, Uncategorized
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 Once a child enters our lives, we start thinking about the years to come—their first words and steps turn into school, graduation, and college, and then, we hope, a successful launch to adulthood. Part of how well our child negotiates...
by Diane Helfrich | Aug 2, 2021 | Culture, High School, Graduation, Testing, College, Diversity, NCHE Blog, Reasons to Homeschool, Encouragement, Getting Started, War on Homeschooling, Considering Homeschooling
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats In a nutshell, this describes for me the difference between homeschooling and public education. We discover and feed gifts and passions in our...
by Diane Helfrich | Jul 20, 2021 | NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Community, Parental Rights, Freedom to Homeschool, Considering Homeschooling, Culture
by Diane Helfrich, July 2021 We now live in a time where the government defines what is taught in our schools and how. While it has always been that way to an extent, we’ve watched the degradation of the quality of education over time. Schools accommodate learners who...
by Diane Helfrich | Dec 2, 2020 | Fall 2020, GREENHOUSE
Fall 2020/ Diane Helfrich You’ve now been homeschooling for a while, and you have hit a wall. You are asking, “Did I do the right thing? Am I ruining my child’s life? Can I really do this long-term? Why am I not as far along with lessons...
by Diane Helfrich | May 6, 2020 | Spring 2020, GREENHOUSE
Spring 2020/ Diane Helfrich A young man born in Ohio grew up with an enormous sense of curiosity. He became deaf at a young age, was hyperactive by today’s standards, and the school kicked him out after only twelve weeks, saying he was uneducable. His mother...
