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We Have a Winner!
 THSC is happy to announce that TeenPact Texas won the Friends Don't Let Friends Homeschool without THSC membership drive contest.
They recruited the most members to join THSC Association by the end of August; these new members came from cities all around the state. The prize, a voucher to fly anywhere Southwest Airlines flies, will go to Janet Baber, from Whitehouse (Tyler area), TeenPact Texas Promotional Coordinator.
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Inviting All Leaders!
 Support group leaders from around the state are invited to attend and be inspired, encouraged, and invigorated at THSC's annual Leadership Training Conference (LTC), October 23-25 in Waxahachie, Texas. Be All That You Can Be! is this year's theme.
Meet Keynote Speaker Norm Wakefield!
Norm Wakefield is the founder of Spirit of Elijah Ministries. He and his family live in Bulverde, Texas. Norm and Alma Wakefield have four children and ten grandchildren; they have homeschooled for 21 years. Norm believes that home education is primarily about discipling the next generation for eternity as well as for this life. (Read more about Norm.)
Experience Norm's workshops and be motivated to return to your support group and continue the journey. Energize with insightful talks such as Revival in America: Building a Godly Legacy for Generations and Leadership Lessons Learned the Hard Way so that you can Be All That You Can Be!
The deadline to register is October 9 and space is limited, so make plans to attend today!
Get the LTC details!
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The Pioneer Woman, an Internet and Publishing Sensation
And she also homeschools ...
"Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. But there's nothing accidental about the success she's built combining those two.
"Drummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although not due out until Oct. 27, it is currently at No. 1 on Amazon's preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world."
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Do You Need Clothing for a Special Occasion?
 When you join the Texas Home School Coalition Association, one of the many benefits you gain is a 15% discount on the already affordable prices from The Briar Patch. This family business offers special occasion clothing for children up to age twelve.
A new discount/benefit provider this year, The Briar Patch joins our other providers to help bless home schoolers as they support THSC. See other great membership benefits from THSC!
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Update on Schmidts' Case
Joel Thornton, International Human Rights Group
 Today began sunny and bright in Nordlingen, Germany. This town is part of Germany's Romantic Road and has the history to bear it up. I would like to say it was by careful planning on my part, but it was only the providence of God that our hotel was literally thirty feet from the entrance to the court, the Amsgericht, where the Schmidt family was this day fighting for the right to keep custody of their youngest son, Aaron. Aaron is fourteen and has two more years left of high school. He is a normal, well-rounded young man, who speaks English well but seldom does because he is shy around the Americans. He plays on a local football club and is quick to smile. I was with Aaron right before the hearing. He was calm and seemed convinced that everything would be fine. I had asked permission to attend the court hearing as an interested person and a friend of the family. The judge was happy to have me in the courtroom, as long as I did not broadcast her name on the Internet. The Jugendamt, however, was a different matter. Gabriele Eckermann represented the parents in the hearing; Johannes Hildebrandt represented the interests of Aaron.
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Our Sponsor
October 5 is Home School Day
 For one day only, the Children's Museum of Houston will close their doors to the general public and offer Home School students unlimited access to the newly expanded Museum. Home School students will explore science, technology, history, culture, health, environment and engineering hands-on at the ultimate Playground for your Mind™! Pre-registration is required. Make your reservation today!
Get more information and a registration form.... |
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McKinney ISD Requires Unnecessary Measures to Withdraw Student
A member parent contacted THSC Association after a McKinney ISD school representative requested that she make a second trip to the school to complete additional paperwork. Tim Lambert wrote to the school's principal and reacquainted her with the Texas Education Agency's instructions on how to withdraw a student for home schooling.
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 My nine-year-old son, Matthew, was writing the word "froze" during a recent lesson. He had written his Z backwards. I then said, "That doesn't look like a Z" Matthew quickly replied, "It is a Z with a little construction problem." ~ Allison Welch, Prosper Do you have a funny, home-school-related anecdote you'd like to share? We'd love to publish it! Please send it to THSC and include your name and city. | |
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God's Grandchildren
Patsy Arnold
"What does God look like?" Young children without the capacity for abstract thinking often ask this question as they struggle to understand our spiritual commentary on life. Some people think God resembles Reb Tevye and his friends in Fiddler on the Roof-fiftyish or older, long beard, Yiddish accent. Others imagine a celestial Santa Claus, always willing to hand out exactly that for which they ask. Some do not even personalize Him; they find gods in their cars, flat-screen televisions, or even the government. None of those images fit the biblical description of God. Neither does the concept of God as a grandfatherly figure-old, wise, silent unless sharing a deep thought.
So if God is not the grandfatherly type, what makes us, as home schoolers, think that He has grandchildren? I know-you are thinking, "I do not think God has grandchildren!" Do you, though? How often do we think that our children are automatically Christians because we are? Do we think that their salvation is in home schooling, in being with us all the time, in isolation from worldly influences that might taint their thinking? If only we can control all of the input, we can control the outcome. Do you think that? If so, are you playing God in your children's lives and relegating God to grandfatherly status?
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