“What curriculum do you use?" is an important question. But more important is "What is your philosophy of education?” Your curriculum reflects your philosophy of education, and since many homeschool families don’t have one, their curriculum choices tend to be based on convenience, pragmatism, or availability. Explore the Puritan Philosophy of Education from which rose great educational movements and institutions. Find basic tools to develop a philosophy of education for your family and give you direction, goals, and purpose.

Can you defend your faith? Do you even want to? Or do you think doing so would be unkind, arrogant, or even unchristian? Voddie exposes the contemporary ideologies that stand opposed to the idea of apologetics and introduces the basics of defending the faith. He also speaks to contemporary cultural apologetic issues.

Have you heard of the Protestant Work Ethic? Did you know it is more than just a predisposition to hard work? There was actually a significant theology of work that undergirded Protestant culture and led to prosperity and freedom we take for granted. Voddie explores that theology and gives you tools to help you incorporate it into the education of your children.

Modern Christianity is awash with pragmatism and mysticism. Unfortunately, these ideologies are so common that many Christians are not even aware of the influence in their own lives and families. Voddie examines these ideologies and shows you how to counter them with biblical thinking and decision making.

Relational wisdom is the ability to discern emotions and interests in yourself and others, interpret them in the light of God’s Word, and use them to manage responses and relationships successfully. In this life-changing message, Ken describes the biblical and neurological basis for relational wisdom and shows how these skills lead to less stressful and more productive homeschool experiences while also preparing children for durable marriages, better job performance, and a more credible witness for Christ.

Relational wisdom is the ability to discern emotions and interests in yourself and others, interpret them in the light of God’s Word, and use them to manage responses and relationships successfully. In this life-changing message, Jeff describes the basic principles of relational wisdom and shows how these skills reduce conflict; promote close family relationships; and prepare young adults for close friendships, durable marriages, better job performance, and a more credible witness for Christ.

David helps you establish your most desired legacy objectives. What do you dream for your family? What does your family look like ten generations from now? Every significant endeavor begins with the planning stage. We know life does not always work out as planned, but creating an amazing legacy is not the result of random chance. There is design, and prayer, and recalibration all along the way.

Enjoy a more peaceful and productive classroom by learning how to teach your children to resolve conflict constructively. They will learn to discern the heart desires (idols) that fuel conflict, sincerely confess their wrongs, graciously confront others, and practice meaningful forgiveness.

If you have children who think outside of the box, they may not respond well to traditional education. They are visionaries and leaders who solve problems, create products and services, and create jobs by nurturing teams. They think differently than employees. Hear about Rhea’s son who owns and operates a roofing company and never went to college. Learn ten concepts foundational to operating a successful home business. Think like an entrepreneur.

How do you plan for the homeschool high school years? What subjects do you teach and when? Do you follow a basic, general college prep, or rigorous college prep plan? How do you evaluate credits? Determine grades? Make a transcript and diploma? If you are just beginning to think about high school homeschooling, Carol helps you get organized and lay groundwork for a viable four-year plan.

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Patrick Henry. The Bible says, “If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?” What this next generation does with the Gospel and the Constitution will determine future Christian liberties of America.

God invented physics to make the world, so it should be wonderful. But terribly intimidating formulas and equations scare off many would-be explorers. Instead, maybe an introduction to physics should teach the big concepts rather than getting lost in the details. Learn about the seven major gears that drive the universe and rediscover the wonder of God’s physical universe.

Discover how to reach the heart of boys and inspire them to embrace a training phase of their lives to pursue a purpose that, like knights of old, courageously puts needs of others before their own. The world needs kind, courageous, and bold men who lead their families well and make an impact with their lives. Ignite their imagination, honor their love for adventure, and cast a vision for the training process.

Animals display incredible variety. This includes the amazing aspect of instinct, which each animal possesses uniquely. Some, however, go beyond this and enter the world of symbiosis, especially mutualism-when creatures need others to survive. It is inconceivable to imagine that both instinct and symbiosis just randomly happened, unguided by a Designer!

Letting your children be more involved in helping has some great benefits—both for training in character and practical skills AND for your sanity! But where do you begin? This foster mom to over fifty children shares tips and practical helps that have enabled her to homeschool seventeen children and still be able to open the front door to guests.

The biggest eruption in modern times happened in the Alaskan Peninsula in 1912. It was thirty times larger than Mount St. Helens’s eruption! Afterwards, Dr. Robert Griggs led an expedition into the blast zone. His book inspired another explorer a hundred years later to return to this amazing wilderness and document evidence for a worldwide flood and a biblical ice-age.

Homeschooled children can flourish when their parents have strong, healthy marriages. Conversely, children suffer when there’s conflict between Mom and Dad. Learn how parents can have a relationship that allows their children to prosper, not just academically, but emotionally and spiritually.

Teaching literature is not for the faint of heart, or for those who are easily taken by bad worldviews. Many of our homeschooled children like to read and may become great leaders unless they are corrupted by wrong worldviews. As the developer of the Christian Curriculum Project, Kevin invites parents and students to discernment on both content and method of great literary works.

What are your generational blessings? What baggage do you carry from one generation to the next? We have baggage from earlier generations; we leave baggage for future generations. It’s not our intention, but as frail and imperfect human beings, we can (BUT DON’T HAVE TO) perpetuate cycles of sin and pain. Our goal is to find gratitude, learn about practicing grace, and live together unburdened and free.

Emotions are wired into all people by God’s design and are tied to our greatest joys and accomplishments of life—as well as our greatest struggles and agonies. Ken explores the biblical nature of emotions, how God intends them to enrich our lives, and how we can channel both negative and positive emotions into constructive action.

What pops into your mind when you hear the word, discipline? Many of us instantly think of corrective discipline. However, when using a biblical perspective, you know that the overwhelming majority of discipline should be formative as opposed to corrective. Voddie explores different approaches to discipline in Scripture with strategies to help emphasize and improve your application of formative discipline at home.

The high school years are a prime opportunity to equip your teens with skills they need for future success. If your teen is headed to college, the workforce, or the military, they benefit from study and time management skills. Parents, join Carol for ideas to incorporate these skills into high school coursework and lists of resources to help teens cultivate these essential skills.

Young people are less prepared for life, family, and work than they ever have been. Yet, the revival of mentorship and discipleship has been a saving grace. There is nothing better for spiritual and economic preparation for the marketplace. With twelve years of experience in mentoring, Kevin shares about leveraging a work opportunity into a mentorship and what makes mentorship so successful.

There is a very real war for hearts and minds of the next generation. If we do not fight we are guaranteed to lose. Come be equipped to stand successfully in the battle for truth. Homeschooling parents may fear that when their children graduate they may turn against their upbringing. Is there a way to prevent that? Come explore God’s powerful tools and learn from homeschooling parents’ experiences.

We hear about the brain a lot these days and sometimes it’s tempting to cram more book learnin’ into our children’s heads to produce little geniuses. But this is counter-productive. Some important tips and tricks can be easily incorporated into everyday learning and living to maximize your children’s learning potential. Come find out ten key ways to turn your child ON to learning and have that learning STICK

The plateau is a most breathtaking and perplexing site. Standard geological explanations for its formation are wrong, and most creationists overlook major pieces of the puzzle. Amazingly, what carved the canyon also explains fascinating geological features (e.g. Monument Valley, The Petrified Forest, Canyonlands and Arches, Canyon de Chelley). Furthermore, they all formed quickly! What happened?!

Drawing on her experience as a mom of seventeen homeschool students and a curriculum counselor for a statewide homeschool organization, Vicki shares secrets for you to map out a successful course of study. Vicki helps beginners get a solid start in home education and encourages veteran homeschoolers to re-examine goals and priorities. She also includes a basic overview of different teaching approaches.

The First Law of Thermodynamics says that energy/matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The Second Law states that disorder in the universe is always increasing. Together, these laws completely invalidate the idea that the universe could create itself. But, they are in harmony with the Bible.

Learn how to better protect the most valuable earthly asset we all possess, for the kingdom of God—our family’s health. We dig into Scripture, cutting through modern day hype, and discover a simple logical and refreshing approach to health. Does God’s Word speak to health related topics? Learn how to care for the “fearfully and wonderfully made” human body to maximize your family’s service in the kingdom.

Most of our children watch hundreds of hours of electronic media every year—often with little benefit. Jeff shares practical guidance on how to use popular Hollywood movies to teach life-changing relational skills to your children.

Chess is like life. Circumstances keep changing before and after every move. New choices must be made. The same mindsets and strategies to succeed in chess can help you navigate life’s decisions. Using the game of chess as a launching pad, Elliott brings strategies off the board and into everyday life. Learn chess, be captivated by students’ transformations, identify ways you can empower others, and discover key mindsets and strategies to help you and your children.

Ken and Jeff Sande share their journey to build a strong father and son relationship, struggles and all! Expect to be encouraged with fresh insights of how you too, can pass on a strong father and son legacy as you connect with other men on this same journey.

How does a family interact with popular culture? Popular culture is everywhere. It influences peer groups and sets worldview and cultural perspectives of almost everybody. Very few have wisdom and strength to swim against the stream. So, how does a family make its cultural choices? What part should entertainment play in the home? What are major biblical principles for discernment of music, movies, tattoos, dress, etc.?

Take a look at the negotiation skills used by the heroes of the Bible to resolve conflicts with hostile civil authorities, critical relatives, and oppressive employers—the same kinds of people homeschool families sometimes need to negotiate with today!

As an award-winning Internet business owner and veteran homeschool mom of seven, Rhea shares the fundamentals of five proven home businesses your family can start part-time that could possibly bring your dad home. Her family did it! Find out why some of your children never finish a job, why others are not self-motivated, and how to work toward a lifestyle of freedom.

When you had one child, it seemed easy. But adding more children sometimes makes homeschooling feel like a zany plate-spinning act. Vicki shares ideas for keeping the homeschooling “plates” from crashing to the floor! Come hear practical tips for teaching multiple ages, from a mom of seventeen homeschool students. (Seven school-aged kids at one time!)

Learn about successful crisis management and the disposition needed to turn disturbance into blessing. There are life events outside of our control but to which we must respond. Unemployment, health crisis, loss of a loved one, moral failure, and a long list of other “surprises” are either a basis for family implosion or can be handled in a way with redemption and growth as outcomes.

How does Dad meet the challenge of homeschooling when he works one or more jobs and still tries to maintain influence and leadership in the home? Jake gives practical advice and encouragement from his personal experience.

Repulsive beasts, right? Perhaps, but spiders have incredible abilities. They are marvels of design and very beneficial to mankind. Let’s take a fun and fascinating look at these creatures in a new light. Will you hesitate to squish the ones you see in your house after this? No, probably not! But outside? That’s another matter!

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.” That was said by Isaac Newton, and he wrote more on the Bible than on mathematics or physics. Yet, he is consistently ranked as the greatest scientist of all time. Learn the surprising life of the world’s greatest scientist, who lost twenty years of his life’s work when his dog set his laboratory on fire.

As your child grows older, you may consider high school at home—but you’ve got doubts. Why is homeschooling high school a crucial decision for your teen? How is it possible? What help is available? Carol answers your questions—but more importantly, encourages and challenges you to explore the steps to take as you weigh the possibility of teaching high school at home.

Come explore the scientific research behind the mind/body connection and how movement can be the key to turn your child ON to learning. Find out ways to incorporate movement into everyday learning to maximize your child’s potential.

In 1925 there was a trial in America that changed the world’s trust in God’s Word. Pat reviews the main evidence given during the case, and shows what we know about the evidence almost one hundred years later.

Corlette shares from her highly acclaimed curriculum, The Young Peacemaker, twelve peacemaking principles. Parents can teach these principles to preschool and grade school children to equip them to resolve conflict quickly and develop character qualities that prevent conflict.

Financial foundations, begun with individual habits and practices early in life, emerge later in the life of the family. Savings, investment, and proper planning for your life begun at a very young age can serve as a blessing to a young married couple. What do you need to know about debt, operating a business, buying a house, managing possessions as a steward of God’s resources and other important topics?

God is a God of missions. God’s people are a people on a mission. Voddie explores the biblical idea of missions from Genesis to Revelation (that’s right…missions did not originate with the Great Commission or even the New Testament). Then we explore ways to 1) teach missions in the home, and 2) get involved with missions through praying, giving, and going. We may even discuss the Baucham family mission endeavor in Zambia.

When Drew Perry was 18 he became a real estate investor, and his dad came home from a corporate job just three years later. He sold to investors his system for selling houses on eBay in just seven days. If you don’t know what to do with a budding entrepreneur, don’t miss this story (with pictures) of how the Perrys live simply, glorify God by serving others, and build financial freedom through a home business.

“Help! I’m committed to homeschooling, but I’m feeling overwhelmed just by everyday life!” Have you ever felt like this? For many of us, standard organizing suggestions don’t “stick,” and we wonder what’s wrong with us. Vicki shares tools that helped her (and other busy moms) homeschool and get dinner on the table—on the same day. (Even if you were “born organized,” you’ll glean a lot from this workshop!)

Change is one of the most frequent causes of conflict, whether in the home, office, church, or on a home school board. This workshop will provide a strategy for managing change in a way that builds unity, honors the “old guard,” empowers the “new guard” and inspires entire groups to see every transition in life as an opportunity to grow in character and become more useful to God.

A recent survey shows that teens believe that ape men fossils are the strongest proof for evolution. Pat shows that the evidence clearly tells us something else.

Mike defines “science” and illustrates the scientific method of problem solving. In the light of true science, three main concepts that the theory of evolution is based upon are examined and shown to be faith-based rather than science-based. Mike will not only show you that science does not support evolutionary theory, but also give you some “tools” with which to combat the theory.

Kevin obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering but would be first to tell you he didn’t like science very much (as taught in secular college). He has a passion for making mathematics and science meaningful to children by bringing it back into a God-centered view. Why do we study science? And how can we make it 10,000 times more thrilling for our children than the average teacher? It can be done!

As a parent homeschooling a teen (or thinking about homeschooling a teen), you may have doubts about your ability . . . and your sanity. Are you weighed down by the seriousness of high school? Do you question your competence to teach? Come and be encouraged as you discover a new long-range perspective for teaching teens that is filled with much hope, faith, help, and joy!

Listen up youth! Your God-given constitutional liberties are daily being stripped from you and your history is being re-written to reflect a secular godless America. This is a direct assault on you and your future. The fight is upon you and knowledge with God’s grace is your power. Get ready for boot camp; learn the fundamentals and stop this frontal attack on your country.

Have you ever felt paralyzed by the idea of your children having huge glaring gaps in their education? Heather helps you face your fear and conquer it! Fear is a joy-thief. There is nothing quite so horrible as being held hostage this way. Join us to learn four tips that set the stage for a life-long pursuit of learning and help you conquer that fear of the gaps!

Come, learn how to love and enjoy your role of nurturing and training your children in God’s ways. Learn how to look kind, sound kind, and BE kind in the process. Get excited about seeing your kindness and love passed on to your kids. In addition to taking a fresh look at these truths, a Q&A time allows you to get answers to your specific struggles.

Second mile leaders are counter-intuitive servants of God who develop a consistent love of virtue, a disciplined approach to gratification, and a submissive love for the authority of God’s Word. Male leadership is essential to the success of marriages, families, the church, and society. Earn the right to be heard and more—powerful

Academic knowledge is important, but does it prepare for success in future employment? Is your student becoming a collaborator, communicator, critical thinker, and creator? Are they developing media, information, technology, life, and career skills? Surveyed college professors and CEOs disagree on how prepared a graduate is for modern life. Learn how to plan for success… beyond the curriculum.

It’s hard to stay the course during the high school years. Everything is changing: the rules, the requirements, and the relationship. Your teen is changing too. So why is staying the course a crucial goal of your homeschooling journey, even though the rules aren’t working anymore? Well, teens need you to be a steady force in their life. This time can be the most rewarding of your parenting journey

You had a wonderful plan at the beginning of the school year for a well-rounded education, envisioning academic excellence and character development in your smiling, well-adjusted offspring. But then… life happened. How do you find "normal" again? In this workshop, Vicki helps you focus on the essentials when you're on the frontlines, especially in a crisis situation.

There is a “worldview shift” occurring in America over the past four hundred years. Understand this Colonial Education Era in America by studying the character of the people, how they determined what was real, how they knew what they knew, and what demonstrated a good life. This shift from a biblical-based to a secular-based education system is the Forgotten Story of today.

Christian families that start an entrepreneurial endeavor begin a better family legacy today than ever before. The availability of information in our highly technical age creates an incredible opportunity for new businesses. The perfect way to start that business and reach financial freedom is as a family!

Because we are shaped by our personality types, the power of grades can motivate some and destroy others. Linda shares grading theories, as well as practical tips to make keeping grades simple. With Linda’s “real life” examples from the work of her own children, be encouraged—newbies and veterans alike!

It’s hard for Westerners to understand how Hebrew families viewed the essentials of education. Consider the schooling the young Jesus of the Bible would have received. Take a journey back to Nazareth’s school and see unique perspectives and goals encouraged there. We can learn a lot from an ancient Hebrew schoolhouse!

What do you do with those rocks your kids are bringing home? You identify them! This workshop will give you a short primer in basic rock identification, with encouragement to not be afraid of a dirty subject.

A joyful, gratitude-filled home with an absence of grumbling and discontentment can be cultivated and encouraged in any home! Children tend to pick up what we manifest the most. Naomi shares her heart about what it takes to shift from a mindset of a grumbling grater to a grateful spreader of joy in the family and beyond.

Comprehension, the ultimate goal of reading instruction, involves various types of thinking and processing skills. Faith shares tips, techniques, and strategies that develop very young children’s vocabulary. Good habits of mind lay a solid foundation for comprehension with our wee ones from birth to five years old.

More than feeding, dressing, and driving our kids to play-dates, being a mom means every day is an opportunity for teaching, training, and modeling Christlikeness. The Disciple-Making Mom needs tools to disciple her children in prayer, service, Bible study, Scripture memorization, and true fellowship. Be encouraged and strengthened, knowing that although discipling seems a huge task, God is on your side.