GREENHOUSE Archives - North Carolinians for Home Education

Easy Summer Writing Ideas for the Family

by Debbie Mason | May 29, 2024 | Graduate 2024, GREENHOUSE

2024 Graduate/Janice Broyles Summer is often a time of relaxation and family travel. Many of us take several weeks off of our homeschooling adventures to enjoy the warm season. Learning, however, can take place anywhere and anytime. There are numerous reasons to...

Omega to Alpha

by Debbie Mason | May 21, 2024 | Graduate 2024, GREENHOUSE

2024 Graduate/Diane Helfrich Your last child is in his senior year. Graduation is coming, and you are frantically wrapping up your school year, getting senior photos and invitations ready, party planning, and starting to accumulate what your student needs for life...

The Ever-Changing Nest

by Debbie Mason | May 15, 2024 | Graduate 2024, GREENHOUSE

2024 Graduate/Amanda Garner Isn’t it funny that we use the same analogy to describe both ends of our primary parenting years? This irony struck me several weeks ago as I tackled a small stack of dishes waiting patiently for me on the counter. I walked by with a sigh...

NCHE Celebrates Forty Years: The Battle Begins (1985-1987)

by Debbie Mason | May 8, 2024 | Graduate 2024, GREENHOUSE

Graduate 2024/Matthew McDill North Carolinians for Home Education is celebrating our fortieth anniversary this year! This article is part two in a series that recounts the history of the modern homeschool movement in NC (see the first article in the spring issue of...

A Plan for Career Exploration

by Debbie Mason | May 1, 2024 | Spring 2024, Uncategorized

spring 2024/Whitney Cranford Crowell Most teens have two criteria when it comes to thinking about a future career: 1. Will it be fun? and 2. Will it make me a lot of money? And truthfully, these are often the top criteria for parents as well. While we may not frame it...

Science and God

by Debbie Mason | Apr 24, 2024 | Spring 2024, Uncategorized

spring 2024/Jessica Frierson A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world. ~Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., astrophysicist and Nobel...