The academic year is upon us, but new home school parents don’t have to be intimidated. Smoothing the Way co-founder Mary James will offer teacher training for those just beginning their home school adventure at this year’s THSC State Convention & Family Conference. (Click on picture for information about this year’s slate of Convention speakers.)

Workshops

Come for an exciting vacation weekend for your family! Your children, ages 4-12, will love the Children’s Program, led again by Children's Ministries of Texas. Be inspired by all the great workshops beginning with the free Thursday evening sessions with keynote speakers Sally Clarkson and Norm Wakefield. Shop Friday and Saturday for all your home school needs in the carpeted exhibit hall filled with exceptional exhibitors such as The Homeschool Store, Write at Home, Video Text and My Study Hall.com.

12% Discount on the Brazos de Dios Ranch Lodging

THSC Association is pleased to announce a new benefit of membership! Members can receive a 12% discount on lodging at the Brazos de Dios Ranch , an authentic 990-acre Texas ranch. Combine a family vacation with a home school history field trip at this ranch, 80 miles southeast of Lubbock.

Are you ready to explore alternatives to the dating game but unsure of what that could mean? We are pleased to introduce the new THSC Courtship Kit ($29 value).

Included in the kit are: Old-Fashioned Courtship and How It Works Today - Book. This book by Jeff and Marge Barth gives insights based on experience of the essential aspects to courtship, as well as important qualities for preparing sons and daughters for marriage.

Courtship - One Family's Perspective - DVD Join Tim and Lyndsay Lambert as they talk about the different ideas and theories about courtship that are circulating in the home school community. Joining them are their son, Peter, and his wife Rita, who tell the story of their preparation and courtship, which culminated in marriage in 2000.

When purchased separately, the combined price is $29 Price for the Kit: $24

It is a constant battle. Always on the move, military families struggle to find consistent and valuable education for their children. Many are discovering home schooling is the answer. Kate Tsubata, a home-schooling mother of three, writes about the problem and a viable solution in her article, posted April 10, 2006, at washingtontimes.com.

“Stability despite many moves

“Military families face a unique set of challenges in educating their children -- being sent all over the globe to schools where the curriculum varies greatly and trying to foster stability throughout all these changes.

”Julie Gannon's experience with her eldest child, Michael, is an example. Michael entered kindergarten in California but finished it in Rhode Island. He did first grade in Virginia and second grade in Okinawa, Japan, in 1995 at a Department of Defense school.”

THSC Association president Tim Lambert wrote a letter to the DA of Denton County in response to school district actions against an Association member family.