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  • Raising Future Astronomers: How to Get Your Kids Interested in Astronomy

    Raising Future Astronomers: How to Get Your Kids Interested in Astronomy

    A fellow-amateur astronomer once joked that we amateur astronomers tend to promote our hobby with quasi-religious zeal.  Indeed, when the editor-in-chief of this website suggested that I contribute an article about getting kids interested in astronomy, I enthusiastically agreed, not wanting to waste this opportunity to recruit more people to this hobby that I love. […]

  • A Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers

    We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time. So I thought I’d share with other homeschoolers who might be able to use it in their homeschool. You can […]

  • Marriage Redeems

    A guest post from Jade Vargas-Pulido.     Today I was Facebook chatting with my Mom. We have been doing this for as long as I left home and country to be with my husband. We would chat about life, and fight about petty things too, like most mothers and daughters do. My Pops would […]

  • Raising Catholic Kids: An Observation

    by Candice Tolentino Last week we were asked to give a talk about “Strengthening the Christian Families” which means we needed to talk about raising Catholic kids. They might as well have asked us to perform a brain surgery. We didn’t have a clue. Well, maybe we did. But it’s not because we have results […]

  • Heaven and Homeschooling

    by Candice Tolentino When I was an expat in Cincinnati 11 years ago, I met this weird family. They were homeschooling. I mean, would their kids even get a decent job if they didn’t learn from a school? And how would they get accepted in university? And gasp! How will their kids socialize? I thought […]

  • How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum Part 2: BOOKS!

      In Part 1, I talked about “my process” for designing my child’s homeschooling curriculum. Because we’ve been homeschooling for roughly 18 years now, my go-to resources will look a little different from a new homeschooler’s, so if you’re new to this, don’t worry. You’ll build up your own arsenal as you go along, gathering […]

  • How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum

    It’s that time of year — the most exciting, for every DIY homeschooler mom!! It’s curriculum-designing time. We’ve been homeschooling for ~18 years so I’m way more confident now than I was years ago when I first tried to do this. Back then, I was always petrified of picking the wrong book or resource and — horrors!!! — permanently damaging my […]

  • Birthing A (Firstborn) Adult

    Despite maintaining a fairly public profile, I don’t like writing about personal stuff, especially about current issues that we are dealing with in our family, because I do believe some things are just meant to be private and kept among the persons directly involved. I am making an exception today, however, because the past three […]

  • Teaching Your Kids How to Love House Chores

      by Sigrid Perez. I love doing house chores! That may sound weird since house chores are always associated with boring, manual work. But when I took a moment to reflect on why I felt this way, I realized it’s probably because I had observed my Mother lovingly do the house chores at home. I […]

  • Poetry Begins At Home

      by Cristina Montes. My favourite parts of the movie The King Speech are when the character Lionel Logue recites passages from Shakespeare and asks his sons to guess the plays where the passages come from. These parts remind me of the home environment wherein I grew up. While my parents did not do the […]