Workshops on Homeschooling
We’ve homeschooled our own children for nearly two decades, and we’ve faced a lot of challenges during that time. These workshops will give you practical, real-life help from starting out with preschoolers to getting them graduated. Get some encouragement!
Workshop CDs are $7 $5 each.
Giant Homeschool Bundle of all 9 of these CDs $63 $36 Beginning Homeschooling Bundle and Homeschooling Teens Bundle Available Separately
MP3 Downloads are $5 $4, when available. We’re getting them up!
Check out the Family Life page for workshops on homeschool marriages, a dad’s perspective on homeschooling, and homeschooling in hard times.
Homeschooled From the Beginning: What to Do When Your Children are Young, in CD or mp3
(Melanie) A Favorite for Parents of Preschoolers You’ve made the decision–your child will be homeschooled from Day One. Good for you! But should you start at a young age? Is it wise to even try? How do you know when to get started and what to do first? Melanie Young has raised precocious readers and late bloomers, but every one of them has benefited from being homeschooled from the beginning. This session can give you a new perspective on how to relax and introduce your little ones to the joy of learning in a gentle and realistic way.
NEW! Three Simple Goals for Your First Year
Over years of calls from new homeschoolers, Melanie Young learned that there were three things that successful families accomplished in their first year of homeschooling. Learn how to make through without jerking anybody bald-headed – including yourself!
Diapers, Playdough, and Microscopes: Teaching All Different Ages
(Melanie) Sometimes homeschooling feels like one of those plate-spinning acts and you wonder how in the world you are going to meet everyone’s needs. The baby needs to be changed, the toddler is playing in the toilet, your high schooler is impatiently waiting for you to help with his biology experiment, and two other children say, “I can’t do anything else without you, Mom.” Melanie Young, mother of eight (ages 19 to infant), shares encouragement and ideas for how to keep all of those plates spinning at once without your life spinning out of control. Learn how to raise independent learners, how to keep the household moving, and how to make sure the little ones get enough attention. You can’t get all of high school done while your baby takes a 90 minute nap. Come hear how Melanie manages it all.
Homeschooling and the Pursuit of Happiness
(Hal) Homeschooling is a task that demands dedication, discipline, self-sacrifice and time. According to several research studies, though, homeschooling parents and their students are finding significant happiness and satisfaction in the experience. What gives? Find out in this unusual session.
Homeschooling Is Not Enough
Because none of it will matter if they don’t follow Christ. Many homeschoolers hope and pray
that because they’ve homeschooled their children will turn out all right, but unfortunately, we
are seeing a number of homeschooled children turning away from God in rebellion. We can’t
make our children serve Christ, but we can make sure we aren’t standing in the way! Find out
about the power of delighting in your children and loving them as Christ loves us. Hear how
to point them to the Savior and teach them to serve Him! One of our most popular workshops.
Homeschooling High School and Transcripts: Getting It Done and Getting It Down Now in mp3 download!
(Melanie) Thoughts of high school tend to make even veteran homeschoolers shake in their boots. Scary memories about confusion in algebra class and dissecting frogs make you wonder if you can really do this. Come learn how to plan it, how to do it and even how to tell the rest of the world with a top notch transcript. Melanie Young will help you figure out what they need to take, how to do the classes you are not so sure about (or are sure you can’t) and what records you need to keep. High school can be the most important formative years for your child. Don’t give up now! This workshop will leave you prepared for and excited about high school at home!
Aiming for College
(Melanie) Sometimes our sons will need a college degree and we’ve all been asked, “But can they get into college?” The answer is a resounding yes! Homeschoolers not only get in, but they are often highly recruited and are offered scholarships as well! Come find out how to : choose colleges, make a college visit count, apply for admission and scholarships, demonstrate your record, get financial aid, and decide on a college. Get filled in on all those mystifying things: ECs, FAFSA, PROFILE, ACT, SAT, AP, CC, and CommonApp. Melanie Young has served for many years on scholarship committees and has spent the last few years helping her son and others through the admissions process. Now she’d like to help you!
Shining Armor: Your Son’s Battle for Purity
Making it through the battle for purity to courting his bride. Most purity resources these days focus on girls, but purity tends to be a much bigger problem for young men. Those that are available often seem hopelessly naïve about the battles our sons are facing. How can you teach your boys to protect the girls in their lives, even from themselves? How can you help them to fight temptation in a world full of inappropriate images? How can you help them make the transition from ―It’s not time to think about that…‖ to finding a wife? Come hear the parents of six sons give you frank, practical advice on raising your son to be a virtuous knight.
Doing Real Things
A Session for Teens and their Parents. Young adults have a tremendous desire to contribute to the world, to do things that matter, yet our culture tells them to wait until they are 22 to worry about that. Is that the Biblical model? Is there a different way to raise sons? Sure! This workshop will give you great ideas that reduce restlessness and rebellion, and train a generation to make a difference for Christ. Teens will be encouraged not to waste their lives, but to step up to the plate and be an adult.
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