by Jessica Frierson | Oct 5, 2026 | NCHE Blog, Encouragement, NCHE Membership, Considering Homeschooling, Discipleship, Family life
Welcome back to the Rooted blog! This week I would like to share with our readers a little about the background of our new name. As you may know,our members’ magazine is titled GREENHOUSE in homage to the concept of relating homeschooling to raising plants in the...
by Jessica Frierson | Aug 17, 2026 | Freedom to Homeschool, Discipleship, Teaching Strategies, Schedule, Family life, NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Spiritual Growth, Getting Started, Resources
I don’t know about you, but my summer disappeared faster than the sweet tea at a church picnic in July. No sooner was I sorting through last year’s stack of dog-eared books, wrinkled papers, and half-finished word searches than it’s time to plan the next school...
by Jessica Frierson | Apr 25, 2023 | NCHE Blog, Spiritual Growth, Peace, Parenting, Discipleship, Young Children, Family life, Uncategorized
by Jessica Frierson, April 2023 One of the things that really bothers me as a parent is hearing my children mutter an insincere “I’m sorry.” In search of a way to make the phrase more meaningful, I considered what the point of an apology is to begin with. It is often...
by Jessica Frierson | Mar 8, 2022 | NCHE Blog, Parenting, Teens, Culture, High School, Discipleship, Young Children, Middle School, History, Family life, Grandparents
by Jessica Frierson, March 2022 The house was burning down around them, and six-year-old Emery couldn’t get two-year-old Hazel to put her spoon down so he could get her out of her highchair and escape the flames. That is the incredible story my children’s grandfather...
by Jessica Frierson | Dec 17, 2021 | Spiritual Growth, Discipleship, NCHE Blog, Encouragement
by Jessica Frierson, Dec 21 How long, Lord, how long? Is there anyone who has not asked that soul-wrenching question? How many of you are asking it at this very moment? One of my favorite segments of the Christmas story is not even in the part usually read and...
by Matthew McDill | Aug 17, 2021 | Parental Rights, Parenting, Discipleship, Reasons to Homeschool, NCHE Blog, Resources
by Matthew McDill, Aug 2021 Some of my very favorite times as a dad are when I sit with my teens, enjoying some coffee and real-life conversation. We talk about school, work, relationships, faith, the Bible, the world, philosophy, politics, and anything else they have...
