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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom (Pauline 2005) and Mom to Mom, Day to Day: Advice and Support for Catholic Living (Pauline 2007). Though she once struggled to separate her life …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and together they are the parents of five lively boys. Besides being a mom, she is also a writer and a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has maintained her personal blog at Testosterhome.net where she …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti has been married to Dennis for 15 years, with four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Sara Fox Peterson

Sara Fox Peterson
Sara Fox Peterson is the wife of one wonderful man who was (finally!) baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 2008 and together they are the parents of four young children. She holds and B.S. in biology and an M.S. in human physiology, both from Georgetown University, and has been …
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Coffee Talk: Education

(Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Homemaking)

Whether your children attend school or are homeschooled, this is the spot to ask questions about curricula, religious education, parent-teacher relationships, or academic concerns of any kind.

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we just recently decided we were going to home school our kindergarten age boy this fall. In my state we are not required to register w/ a program until 1rst grade. QUESTION: we decided on a math program, but since my boy can read, does anyone have any recommendations on a reading program that would challenge him? We found most kinder material to be below his current reading level. What other subjects are really essential in kinder other than reading/comp, math & religion ?

 

That’s is what’s nice about homeschooling is you can mix and match material that fits your child’s needs. CHC: http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/index.html and Seton: http://www.setonbooks.com/index.php?cookietest=true is where we get most of our materials. If he’s beyond the normal kindergarten material for reading, there’s NOTHING to stop you from using 1st grade material for reading!

 

I over the course of this week came across a CBS morning show clip about “Thomas Jefferson Method” of homeschooling. In the the clip the mom talked about how she can fulfill her daughter’s 3rd grade requirements in 1 month, and how a child can go from 0 reading skills to High School reading in 100 hours. I did do some basic research and made a post about this on my blog. However I really know nothing about this method and I was hoping someone here would be more knowledgeable and could point me to some reliable resources. I’m just intrigued by it and would like to learn more.

 

Does anyone know any good websites with kindergarten-age appropriate material about our country’s fight for Independence/July 4th?

 

So, after 20 years of parenting, I’ll finally have a little darling going to PS as a kindergartner (been homeschooling all the others for 15 years) and probably bringing a lunch often.  Any helpful hints on what to look for in lunch bag/boxes/cups? I think he’ll be excited to pick something out but I’d like to be steered in a good direction.  The lunch packing thing is new to me!  He’ll only be going full day 2 times a week but I know in preschool he didn’t like several of the lunches, preferring peanut butter and jelly.

 

We sent ours to parochial school (now in 5th grade).  Having her help pack the lunch made her more excited to eat it!  We used freezer gel packs to keep things cold and rubbermaid containers for everything.  She’d choose from applesauce, carrots, etc., plus one small cookie or treat.  We let her be picky about the sandwich, but taught her to eat 1/2 before she had her dessert, AND to bring everything home (we could monitor if she was actually eating it and gently adjust as needed).  Good luck!

 

We are homeschoolers too and I have one going in 2nd grade and one entering Kindergarten.  We have really liked Kolbe Academy—Catholic, Ignatian, Classical…and very flexible!!  You can find them at http://www.kolbe.org.


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