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Missed the testing Deadline? What to do.
Hello Home Schoolers! Did the testing deadline here in Oregon sneak up on you? Unable to find an examiner to test your student before August 15? You’re not alone, and we can help! Oregon’s administrative rule regulating testing states: (5) Children in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10, being taught as provided in section (4)…
What’s Missing?
When you think of the word, “authority,” what comes to mind? Whether you click on this word in a Word document to see the synonyms or look up the definition on-line, at the top of the list is “power.” At the bottom of the list is “influence.” When you think about “power,” the idea of…
What it Means to be Pro-life, and 5 Things to Tell Your Children
Friday’s Supreme Court decision was followed by a barrage of posts, tweets, and TikTok and YouTube clips. Expected for such an historic decision. I was both surprised and not surprised by the vitriol and over-the-top intensity by what I read and viewed. Many of the clips and pictures featured hysterical, angry women using over-the-top profanity…
Living Memento Mori Part 4: Suffering when You’re Not the Sufferer
Emily DeArdo in her book Living, Memento Mori, has a chapter titled, “In It Together.” This chapter is associated with the fourth station of the cross in which Jesus meets his mother on his way to his crucifixion. Mother and Son are in this together. Emily refers the reader to the time soon after Jesus’s…
The Essential Perspective Your Children Need Today
Someone you know has been in the hospital with Covid. Someone else you know has been in the hospital from a bad reaction after getting the vaccine. What do we tell our children? How much do we say to them? In their worst moments, the fear of death is real. Teenagers wonder if they have…
