The process of applying for college can be stressful for homeschoolers. It's hard enough being both Mom and Teacher - now she has to play Guidance Counselor too! Can your son prove he's ready for college? How can you showcase your daughter's real gifts...

The news is full of alarming stories - hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and more - and it's nearly impossible to shield our kids from hearing about it. How do you help your children understand natural disasters and bad news with concern but not panic?

We love meeting families who decide to homeschool when they're still years from "school age" - but sometimes people end up homeschooling suddenly. What do you do if you have to jump into home education because of an unexpected relocation,

We had six boys, one after another, and thought our family's sort of crazy was just normal life. Then people who had girls first started asking, "How in the world do you manage to homeschool all those boys?" The fact is,

  - Long ago, we noticed a revolving door at the eighth grade - parents who homeschooled their children from the beginning putting their kids into the school system, and public school parents pulling their kids out of the very same pipeline.

One of the most disturbing, even frightening, experiences of our parenting journey was learning of a child's spiritual doubts. After pouring love and Scripture into our children for ten years, we may find that it hasn't taken root - or that the early b...

One of the reasons many people start homeschooling is to avoid "negative peer interaction," which often means bullying. Sadly, though, it can happen at church, at homeschool meetings, or simply any gathering of kids.

We all start homeschooling knowing that we'll have to teach reading, spelling, math ... all the traditional classroom subjects. But we quickly realized there were some things that "just happened" in school, and now that we're the school,

Do you feel uncomfortable about your own body? When Melanie wrote about this on our blog, it turned out to be one of our most popular articles! This episode, we talk about handling negative self-talk, building up your wife,

Even the best friendships run into rough spots - husbands and wives, parents and kids, church friends, neighbors. Sometimes you need to have those terrible conversations that begin, "We need to talk ..." But even if they're difficult,