by Ivey Deitz | Mar 28, 2018 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
As many of you are planning out a new school year, excited, anticipating what lies ahead, I am reflecting on my years of homeschooling. It has been a full year since I closed our homeschool (at the time of writing this article.) We graduated our last son at the NCHE...
by Jessica Frierson | Feb 7, 2018 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
Do you feel like you are in over your head? Even after homeschooling for over seventeen years, I still have this experience. Sometimes I feel like my little boy sitting in this great big red chair. This homeschooling thing is so big, and I’m just me! I’m...
by Dave Dentel | Jan 24, 2018 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
Though not exactly dying to start a film career, Abigail Parker Brown did recently use her hard-earned acting skills to play dead. The otherwise lively homeschooled seventeen-year-old donned pale makeup and a lifeless expression as an extra in a B-movie shooting near...
by Mari Fitz-Wynn | Jan 10, 2018 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Proverbs 25:11 We’ve all learned as adults that communicating with others is not just important, it is necessary. We must communicate, in one way or another, to have our basic needs met, function in a...
by Evelyn Bickley | Dec 13, 2017 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
As NCHE’s activities director, one of the very exciting things I am responsible for is the administration of the scholarship program. Starting in December, the scholarship application process is opened for North Carolina homeschooled seniors whose families are members...
by Diane Helfrich | Nov 29, 2017 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
Are you a new homeschooler beginning your first year, questioning if you have made the right choice for your family? Maybe you are moving into the high school years for the first time, fearing that you will ruin your child’s chances for good colleges. Perhaps, you...