Greetings from Australia. I would like to send a few words of thanks for including on your website the chapter from your book Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style. We have 4 beautiful children aged 6, 4, 2, and 4 months. I struggled through the end of my pregnancy, and have found [...]

UPDATE: Winners of the Well Planned Day planner are Kate E., Jen, and Kendra Neal. Winners of the On the Go planner are Laurie Cover, Christina McBride, and Erica E. Home Educating Family is hosting a giveaway for their best-selling Well Planned Day planner. Three Trivium Pursuit Blog readers will win a Well Planned Day [...]

My husband and I are seeking to implement your homeschooling ideas (classical education) with our children who are currently 9, 6, 4, and 1. Since I tend to function best with structure and also do not feel confident enough to pull this together on my own, I would like to find a curriculum to use. [...]

Parental control over education is a basic constitutional principle and a fundamental right. It can be protected by legislation, but it cannot be made to rest upon legislation, because if it rests upon legislation, it then ceases to be a fundamental right, and it becomes a special “right” granted by the state. If it is [...]

Thanks to Naomi Ventura Young for this transcript. Transcript: State Senator Edward Maloney joins Cisco Cotto on WLS-AM 890 2/14/11 – 9 minutes 35 seconds CC: Right now, there is a bill that is pending before the Illinois State Senate that would require homeschoolers to register with the State Board of Education. There’s been some [...]

by Pamela Butler Cisco Cotto on WLS interviewed Illinois State Senator Ed Maloney this morning regarding his move to regulate homeschooling in Illinois. A few things stood out to me in this interview which I think may be helpful to keep in mind as we interact with him and the Education Committee: 1. He has [...]

When I was homeschooling, one of the most difficult parts was being able to afford curriculum. There wasn’t much available in the 80′s, but I needed to buy the math books (we used Saxon — I only recommend the books for grades 6-12), the chemistry, biology, and physics books/videos/equipment (Apologia didn’t exist at that time, [...]

… We teach children to swim before we allow them in the deep end of the pool without supervision, but we could just toss them all in the pool and walk away. Some would survive. This is not done because each child’s life is greatly valued by almost everyone — right? Valued — after they [...]

Taken from the Chris Klicka Caring Bridge web site: Dear praying friends, There is a part of me that would have liked to keep this news to ourselves for a little while. Chris’ journey toward home has been very public, which has been a blessing to us through your intercession and words of love and [...]