Our America…The Pilgrim Adventure by Susan Kilbride
New from Homeschool Book Club: Summary- Finn & Ginny’s parents are lost back in time, and the two young twins have decided to go back to early America to find them. Their search takes the twins to the Mayflower where they discover that the Pilgrims had far more adventures than...
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2012
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Snap up this $5 Learn Our History DVD 3-Pack!
Awesome 48-hour deal for the one-year birthday of Mike Huckabee’s Learn Our History video series. Our family loves these!!! We just watched our newest one this morning, about the Pilgrim (the kids did a video review for you). ————– IT’S LEARN OUR HISTORY’S 1ST BIRTHDAY, BUT YOU GET THE GIFT!...
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2012
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Homeschool Missionaries to Mexico Robbed
From Misty Marr: I would like to ask you all to pray for my parents, Mike and Pam Richardson. They are missionaries in Mexico and are presently traveling across the country hosting a series of home-school conferences. They were robbed this morning (5-10-12). We praise God that no one was...
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May
2012
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Rick Santorum’s Endorsement of Governor Mitt Romney
From Rick Santorum: On Friday, Governor Romney came to Pittsburgh for an over-hour long one-on-one meeting. The conversation was candid, collegial and focused on the issues that you helped me give voice to during our campaign; because I believe they are essential ingredients to not only winning this fall, but...
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2012
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10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling
Great article by Homeschool Legal Defense Association’s Mike Farris. I love to hear what wisdom the home educating veterans have to share! 10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling Points #4, 5 and 9 were especially helpful to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts, too!...
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2012
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parental rights
HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris will be on Fox News Tuesday at 10:40 a.m. Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris will be on national television tomorrow morning as he speaks in defense of parental rights regarding yet another controversial issue—child obesity. Fox News’ American Newsroom plans to interview Farris at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday. Journalists will seek his insight into recent government restrictions on what children can eat and drink while at school. Supporters familiar with Farris’s efforts to pass a parental rights amendment to the Constitution can be sure his response will focus on a solution that begins...
I received this from the chairman of HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association). This poor woman!! Can you imagine??!? What a nightmare! March 27, 2012 Newborn Seized in Hospital by Police, Social Worker Michael P. Farris, Esq. HSLDA Chairman http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/pa/201203270.asp I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with people like Scott and Jodi Ferris (obviously no relation to someone named Farris). Here’s their story: Jodi went into labor a bit earlier than she had expected—and the baby...
ABC News Australia By Ian Townsend for Background Briefing Photo: Growing trend: home schooling has boomed over the past decade. (Background Briefing: Ian Townsend) Map: Australia As a new school year begins, more than 50,000 Australian children will be home-schooled and in most cases, their parents are doing it illegally. It is compulsory to send children between the ages of six and 16 to school, or register them for home schooling, but more parents are opting out of the traditional school system and keeping their children at home. However, thousands of parents across the country are not registered and that...
GREAT explanation of this recent issue, from our pastor Charles Baldon: “So tonight, I am proposing that every state—every state—requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18.” —President Barack Obama, January 2012 State of the Union speech. On its surface this sounds like an eminently reasonable suggestion from the leader of our nation in regards to the importance of education amongst our young people. Who would disagree that education is critical? What is the harm of ensuring that our young people receive the best education possible for the longest period possible? How...
From HSLDA: A troubling case involving a boy with cancer shows why we need laws that protect parents’ rights to make difficult decisions for their children. Jacob’s parents did extensive study of the side effects of the five different chemotherapy drugs that the doctor wanted to administer. And they believed that the risk of the drugs was far greater than the risk of recurrent cancer, since Jacob had a clean PET scan. They said no to the doctors. No more chemotherapy treatment for now. But the doctors would not take no for an answer. They called child protective services in...
The online docudrama Overruled: Government Invasion of Your Parental Rights has just been released. As one viewer commented, “This is very possibly the most important 35 minutes you will spend in front of your computer this year, and maybe in your life!” “American parents just assume that their traditional right to make sound decisions for their children is fully protected in our legal system,” said Michael Farris, President of ParentalRights.org. He added, “Overruled reveals how precarious our rights are in today’s legal climate—and the movie makes it clear that we can and must fix the problem before it is too...
Problems continue to mount for a Swedish home-schooling family that is fighting authorities for the right to keep their child, as officials are now trying to permanently terminate the parental rights of the family. (See earlier story) (previous HNN article) Swedish police seized Christer and Annie Johansson’s seven-year-old son, Domenic, in 2009 as the family boarded a plane to move to India. Authorities claim the Johanssons were neglecting and isolating their son by home schooling him. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Roger Kiska is defending the family in the European Court of Human Rights, which has not been friendly to the couple so...
Parental Rights: God Grants Them. Governments Secure Them by HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris August 10, 2010 Any good idea will attract opponents. Homeschoolers should be the first to recognize this truth. There are those who say that we are denying our children the opportunity for the inculcation of liberal multiculturalism that is necessary for the best interests of the children’s future. A law professor at Emory University recently proposed that all private education and homeschooling should be banned for this very reason. There are also Christian critics of homeschooling. They argue that Christians have a duty to be the salt...
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