Time is limited

Date Posted: April 29, 2013 "Time islLimited, so choose wisely and choose well! You can't do it all, so do what is best!"
- Diana Waring, Reaping the Harvest: The Bounty of Abundant-Life Homeschooling

Worlds can be found

Date Posted: April 22, 2013 "Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skiitering crabs in a tidal pool."
- Mary Catherine Bateson

Play is a necessity

Date Posted: April 15, 2013 "Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity."
- Kay Redfield Jamison

Kids need time to think, create, explore

Date Posted: March 25, 2013 "Beware of overuse of electronic entertainment. Kids need time to think, read, write, create, and explore."
- Marilyn Boyer, Parenting from the Heart

Nuture the child's sense of wonder

Date Posted: March 7, 2013 "Our first priority when we study nature is to nurture the child's sense of wonder." - Ellyn Davis

Play is the work of childhood

Date Posted: February 28, 2013 "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." - Fred Rogers

The Learning Adventure

Date Posted: January 16, 2013 Heather Haupt, AFHE Board Member and 2013 Convention Speaker, reminds us that we have the unique opportunity to lay the foundation that will launch our children into a lifelong learning adventure.

Know Their Hearts

Date Posted: January 9, 2013 David and Shirley Quine are two of the great speakers we've got lined up for the 2013 AFHE Convention. We hope you'll join us! Convention info will be available on the AFHE website in the next week or two. Registration opens February 1.

Teach Your Children the Principles of Freedom

Date Posted: December 28, 2012 We are so thankful for the work of HSLDA and for families that are raising their children to value freedom and work diligently to defend and preserve freedom. We look forward to having Michael Farris as a keynote speaker at the 30th Annual AFHE Convention June 14-15, 2013!

The Grass Is Greener

Date Posted: December 18, 2012 Practical wisdom to help avoid discouragement and the temptation to compare yourself, your life, your children, and your homeschool to someone else's.