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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May
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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May
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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May
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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May
2012
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sweden
In a significant move to support the rights of home-schooling parents worldwide, the Vatican has issued a statement to the United Nations. The statement says governments “should respect the choices that parents make for their children and avoid attempts at ideological indoctrination.” Jeremiah Lorrig of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) says this is especially important in more restrictive countries. “In Sweden, for example, home-school parents have had their children taken away from them,” Lorrig notes. “In Germany, there was a story about a year ago where a family… had immigrated to Germany. They had to flee back to Iran...
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...
From HSLDA: ACTION NEEDED: Swedish officials on the Island of Gotland are seeking to terminate the parental rights of homeschool parents Christer and Annie Johansson. The latest development in this monumental homeschool rights case started when the state seized the parents’ 7-year-old son in June 2009. Domenic, now 9 years old, has been held in state foster care for more than 24 months. … “The government shouldn’t abduct and imprison children simply because it doesn’t like homeschooling. That’s bad enough. But now the state is going even further by attempting to get the parents out of the way altogether,” said...
