by JessicaFrierson2 | Mar 8, 2022 | NCHE Blog, Parenting, Teens, Culture, High School, Discipleship, Young Children, Middle School, History, Family life, Grandparents
by Jessica Frierson, March 2022 The house was burning down around them, and six-year-old Emery couldn’t get two-year-old Hazel to put her spoon down so he could get her out of her highchair and escape the flames. That is the incredible story my children’s grandfather...
by JessicaFrierson2 | Feb 9, 2022 | Reasons to Homeschool, NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Culture, Diversity, Multicultural, History
by Jessica Frierson, February 2022 February is a great time to shine the spotlight on a few notable homeschooled black Americans. Each of these individuals defied great adversity to pursue an education for themselves and have left a legacy that impacts all of our...
by Diane Helfrich | Dec 3, 2021 | NCHE Blog, Parental Rights, Freedom to Homeschool, Culture, Videos, Reasons to Homeschool
We are part of a powerful, growing state and national homeschooling movement. And that was the case even before the coronavirus! Now, more families than ever are homeschooling and benefiting from this life-changing choice. North Carolina is second only to Alaska in...
by Matthew McDill | Aug 27, 2021 | NCHE Blog, War on Homeschooling, Culture
by Matthew McDill, August 2021 The NC Senate debated House Bill 324, Ensuring Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Schools on Thursday. While this is an important and interesting story about the teaching of Critical Race Theory concepts in public schools, a little side...
by Diane Helfrich | Aug 13, 2021 | Reasons to Homeschool, Encouragement, NCHE Blog, Community, Homeschooling in Crisis, Parental Rights, Freedom to Homeschool, War on Homeschooling, Parenting, Considering Homeschooling, Culture, High School, Discipleship, Young Children, Teaching Strategies, Middle School, Uncategorized
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 Once a child enters our lives, we start thinking about the years to come—their first words and steps turn into school, graduation, and college, and then, we hope, a successful launch to adulthood. Part of how well our child negotiates...
by Diane Helfrich | Aug 2, 2021 | Encouragement, Getting Started, War on Homeschooling, Considering Homeschooling, Culture, High School, Graduation, Testing, College, Diversity, Reasons to Homeschool, NCHE Blog
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats In a nutshell, this describes for me the difference between homeschooling and public education. We discover and feed gifts and passions in our...
