Married Every Day

Check this article out:
Six Secrets on How to Deal with Your Difficult Wife
and
Married Every Day
by MAUREEN MCCANN WALDRON
I went to a funeral Monday morning;  the mother of a friend.  She was about 95 and left behind a grieving husband who will turn 99 next month.  They had been married for 73 years.  I sat in church [...]

Homeschooling is exciting

Homeschooling is keeping me very busy this week.  Coordinating 8 children’s school work is not easy but at least my curriculum makes it less tough.  I am able to focus on researching other educational opportunities for the children like on the job training opportunities, volunteer, museum visits, mountain travel and other things.  I also get [...]

Teaching Teens to Cook

Our 16 year old learned to cook Fajitas for the first time. He enjoyed the raves of his siblings.
Read “Top Questions Asked of  Large Families”.

Books on Economics for Homeschoolers

I have compiled a good resource to study Economics in high school.  Check my article entitled “College Preparation:  Top Books and Resources on Economics”.

Do I Recommend the Thomas Jefferson Education for Catholic Homeschoolers?

Read my Catholic blog on why I do not recommend the “Jefferson Education Method” of homeschooling.
READ IT HERE.

Goodbye Gallbladder – A Tribute to My Surgery

How Pope John Paul II is Urging us to Use Mary to Save Our Teens

I wrote an article last year about my experience with Pope John Paul II. It was entitled “Who Else Wants to See the Pope?” It was an informal essay on my first encounter with Pope John Paul II.
The visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines in February 16, 1981  and eventually in [...]

Public School Versus Homeschooling: Which is Better?

My article on “Public Versus Homeschooling:  Which is Better?” has been published.   The article enlightens any parent to cease being blind about the current moral decay in public school.   Many public schools have great  academic programs.  However, how can we entrust our children to a Godless institution, a place where prayer is forbidden. [...]

Catholic Robinson Curriculum Daily Schedule

A typical homeschooling schedule  using Robinson Curriculum, the Catholic way:
7-8 am Wake up, Morning Prayer, Prayer in Honor of Your Guardian Angel and 7 Glory Be’s
8-9 am Breakfast, Walk the Dog or Daily Mass
9-11 am Mental Math, Math Facts, Saxon Math
11-12 pm Reading (Literature from the RC core reading list for appropriate level or grade)- [...]

Catholic Robinson Curriculum – Self Teaching Homeschool Curriculum

Is there such thing as a Catholic Robinson Curriculum for Homeschooling?
Though I am not a pioneer in this philosophy, I have decided to use this curriculum for 8 of my 9 children that I am raising.  My first born is already in a Catholic college at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.  I have a [...]