Family Life Archives - North Carolinians for Home Education

How to Survive, Thrive, and Set a Healthy Example for Your Teens

by Debbie Mason | May 28, 2025 | Graduate 2025, GREENHOUSE

Graduate 2025/Laura Greer “I’m just a mom.” That was often my response when asked what I do. Yet, I knew the statistics. The demands of being a mom are like having two and a half full-time jobs, and that’s only if you’re not also employed,...

More Valuable than Time?

by Debbie Mason | Apr 22, 2025 | Spring 2025, GREENHOUSE

Spring 2025/Banner What could be more valuable than time? Our time is limited. Our time is not renewable. Time wasted cannot be restored. How we spend our time and on whom shows the value we place on it or them. We only get one chance with our allotted time for today....

Homeschooling: Shared Life, Shared Memories, Shared Bond

by Debbie Mason | Apr 3, 2024 | Spring 2024, Uncategorized

Spring 2024/Dava Banner As a homeschooling mom, I feel that children raised in homeschooling families have so many benefits, including the opportunity to share life with their siblings. I grew up with one sibling of the opposite gender. We lived in the same house,...

Teaching Your Kids When to Submit

by Debbie Mason | Nov 7, 2023 | Fall 2023, GREENHOUSE

Fall 2023, by Matthew McDill One day, there was a huge fight taking place in my house. It seemed that every family member was involved. So I called a cease-fire and invited everyone to peace talks. We sat down in the living room, and I read this single question from...

Three Things I’ve Learned as a Mom of a Homeschool Graduate

by Debbie Mason | Oct 17, 2023 | Fall 2023, GREENHOUSE

Fall 2023, by Amy Sloan My firstborn son graduated from our homeschool last spring. While I trust he will look back on his years of home education with joy, that’s a story he will, God willing, share himself one day. But there’s a sneaky part of homeschooling you may...