by Spencer Mason | Jul 1, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
1 Jul 2015 One February morning a few years ago, I stood in my son’s bedroom looking at his Apologia biology textbook. He had been diligently working his way chapter by chapter through the book, and I was preparing to quiz him on the vocabulary and end of chapter...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 24, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
24 Jun 2015 When my children were little, we would read good books together several nights a week. We spent time with Peter and Lucy in Narnia, with Laura Ingalls on the Minnesota prairie and we even walked the battlefields of France with Sgt. Alvin York. We also read...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 17, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
17 Jun 2015 It’s never healthy for people in a relationship to compare responsibilities, but if someone feels their role in the home is minimized or taken for granted, it’s easy to get caught up in this game. Even though I am a homeschool mom who works...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 10, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
10 Jun 2015 What do Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Thomas Jefferson and John D. Rockefeller have in common? Not all of these individuals were professional scientists, but all of them used the same simple tool of scientific inquiry to pursue...
by Spencer Mason | May 27, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
27 May 2015 Spring is the time to take action if a home-educated child is interested in a military academy nomination or a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship leading to a commission as a military officer. Note that spring is specifically time to take...
by Spencer Mason | May 6, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
6 May 2015 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” Colossians 3:21 These two mirroring verses are actually...