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Letter to a Home School Mom

A home school dad writes a loving letter of appreciation to all of the home school moms from all of the home school dads.

How to Prevent Burnout

Robert Oswalt has good ideas for homeschool dads who want to help their homeschooling wives.

Secrets of a Couch Potato Track Coach

As you begin your home school year, please commit to run alongside your kids as they study and learn. Run alongside your wife as she prepares and teaches. Shout encouragement (do not mumble) to your family as they run and stumble. Teach them that the Lord created them to run well.

Home School Grandparents: Making a Difference

Grandparents can play a very important role in the home schooling of their grandchildren.

Foundations for Home Schooling Families

According to Pat Hurd, "The same convictions that led us to look to home schooling also challenge us to look at other facets of our families and the way in which we respond to the world around us."

Getting in Touch with Reality

Larry Arnold encourages home schoolers to base their vision on God's reality.

Amazing Moments

Pat Harrell discovered that allowing God to create special unplanned times with his children brought about unexpected delights.

Mom's Night Off

Homeschooling dad, Pat Harrell, realized how easy he had it as a home school dad because of his amazing wife.

Hold on to Your Teens with Four Important F's

Fellowship, Fun, Fathers, and Faith are the keys to having a good relationship with teenage children.
 

Freedom in the Light of the Cross

Home school dad, Johnson Obamehinti, recalls Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and reflects on the meaning of the freedom Jesus Christ bought for all of us.

Capitol Days and the Success of a Home School Dad/Candidate

One home school dad recounts his experience at a recent Capitol Day and tells how it changed his life and will eventually affect public policy in Texas. THSC Association’s Capitol Days—the ultimate field trip!

What Do You Perceive?

Home school parents are often so caught up in the concrete business of educating their children that it can be difficult to learn from them. Pat Harrell used the title of a Christmas song to convey the concept of missing what is right before our eyes.

Practicing Your Preaching

Have you ever heard the truism about children learning more from what is caught than what is taught?  Pat Harrell shares about one of those unexpected teachable moments.

Deep in the Heart of Russia!

How many times do dads take the kids on a field trip?  How many times can a “field trip” make a huge difference in the lives of home school families, as well as in the lives they touch?  Home school fathers David Quine and George Clay took just such a trip and share about it in this article.

Balancing Family Life in the Information Age

It seems that everyone depends more and more on the Internet. There is so much information out there!  It is a valuable source of information, but we are encouraged in an article by Dr. Ray Ballmann to exercise caution and discernment as we surf the Web.

Daddy Loves Me Just the Way That I Am

Pat Harrell shares how God showed him the value of actively watching his daughter grow into a woman.

Life's Whistles

This poem was written by a dad after a home school basketball tournament. As you contemplate Life’s Whistles, be encouraged in knowing that God will equip you for this monumental calling!

Special Kids, Special Dads

Doug Arnold shares his charge to raise “special children” in the ways of the Lord.  He shares four major stepping stones for dads whose children have special needs, whether autism or attention deficit, Down syndrome or dyslexia, or other issues.

Anchored in Christ in a Cat-5 Home School Storm

2006 THSC State Convention speaker Norm Wakefield addresses facing life’s storms on the Solid Rock as families add home schooling to the list of variables.

Staying the Course of Homeschooling

Pat Hurd encourages parents to hear and embrace the call that God has placed on fathers.

Can You Afford Not to Homeschool?

Author Larry Arnold works the figures and concludes not only that you can afford it but also that possibly you cannot afford not to homeschool.

Hooked on Books

Encouragement from a dad to dads to read to and with their kids.

Open Doors - Open Lives

"Dads, are you looking for something fun to teach your children? Try this: teach your children hospitality by inviting guests into your home for dinner. If you are ready to add something new to your fatherly teaching schedule of math, auto mechanics, and nuclear physics, then develop your child’s joy of opening your home and entertaining visitors. …"