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Special Needs – Walking Beside
Nov 25, 2022 | Special Needs
From the LEADERS’ SYMPOSIUM 2019 - SPECIAL NEEDSVoddieBaucham – “We teach our children to read so they can read Scriptures, math so they can be good stewards, write so they can share – focus on what is important. “ Diane Geerlinks – livestream to...
WHY OCHEC?
Nov 9, 2022 |
WHY OCHEC? It's tempting to give the 1 minute answer: the Ontario homeschooling community needs a provincial organization to network families together, to build and strengthen one another, to provide a credible voice to speak into legislation and...
Exploding the Myths about Homeschooling
Oct 18, 2022 | Homeschooling 101
Exploding the Myths about Homeschooling - Brenda Rishea Every time I meet someone who doesn’t know about home schooling, I usually get asked the same questions: “Is it legal?”, “Don’t you have to be a certified teacher to do that?”, “Don’t you have...
100 Years of Canadian History
Apr 13, 2022 |
100 Years Ago On January 26 1920, Parliament sat for the first time in the rebuilt Centre Block which was destroyed by the great fire of 1916. The Speech from the throne also took place in the House of Commons rather than the Senate, because the...
Planning & Record Keeping
Feb 3, 2022 | Encouragement, Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture, Subjects
Planning and Record Keeping – Christine Dittmann Through more than two decades of homeschooling, we’ve used various levels of planning and record keeping in our home. There were times we were just flying by the seat of our pants, doing the next...
Remind Me : Why am I Homeschooling ?
Feb 3, 2022 | Encouragement, Homeschooling 101
Remind me : Why am I encouraging our family to Homeschool? In the course of our daily routine, sometimes seemingly overwhelmingly so, it can be hard to remember why we committed to homeschooling in the first place. Was it to give our children a...
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12 Habits That Help Me Get Things Done
by H Z | Oct 5, 2021 | Encouragement, Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
Christine Dittman I’ve been homeschooling for over 20 years now. We have 10 children—1 adult child that is out on her own, 2 adult children that are at home pursuing post-secondary studies, and 7 children that are being homeschooled. I’m halfway through an...
Together, You Can Do It
by OCHEC Publications | May 28, 2020 | Encouragement
You are not going to do a perfect job of homeschooling. You have both strengths and weaknesses. Your children are not going to turn out perfect. They have their strengths and weaknesses too. But, together, you can do it…with God’s help. “Trust in the Lord with all...
Not for the Faint of Heart
by OCHEC Publications | Apr 28, 2020 | Encouragement, Mother Culture
I heard it again recently in a conversation with a Christian mom whose children are all attending public school. “You guys are amazing. I know I would never have the patience to teach my kids at home.” As usual, I bit my tongue so I wouldn’t be tempted to point out...
Confessions of a Public School Jumper
by OCHEC Publications | Apr 23, 2020 | Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
Homeschooling five children has been a study in cat-herding. I jumped into homeschooling in 2009 with four, one of which was a literal newborn. These are the things I wish I had known at the time:Don’t stress, you can’t ruin your kids simply by learning at...
God is Trustworthy
by OCHEC Publications | Apr 9, 2020 | Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
I know this both from reading the whole Bible, and from forty-four years of walking with Him. I know this from homeschooling ten children (nine of whom are now adults). My desire is that each of you reading this would know in increasing measure, in the depths of your...
Words of Encouragement
by OCHEC Publications | Apr 9, 2020 | Encouragement, Mother Culture
I confess to feeling afraid—not really of contracting covid-19, but of the world’s reaction to it. It is normal for me to spend time with the Lord daily, reading the bible and in prayer, often multiple times, as well as praising Him with worship music. For some reason...
Keep Homeschool Sanity
by OCHEC Publications | Mar 25, 2020 | Encouragement, Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
Like any area of life, homeschooling can quickly become a complicated monster. You can sometimes find yourself battling through the darkness in search of homeschool sanity. We’ve been in the homeschool mentality for almost 10-years. When our oldest child was...
Minutes Per Day
by OCHEC Publications | Mar 25, 2020 | Homeschooling 101
I have used the same tired, old, hand-me-down phonics curriculum for each one of my children. Remember those old infomercials about Hooked-on-Phonics from the early 90’s? Yes, the same ones you now run across in the thrift stores for $2? That’s what I...
The Perfect Homeschool Mom
by OCHEC Publications | Mar 25, 2020 | Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
Who is the “perfect” homeschool mom? Where and how does she live? Is her husband the “perfect” homeschool father who always makes the right choices? What are her children like? What kind of house does she live in? Is it always clean and well...
What the Second Generation Needs From the First
by OCHEC Publications | Mar 25, 2020 | Encouragement, Homeschooling 101, Mother Culture
Second-generation homeschoolers have the tremendous privilege of following in the footsteps of those who paved the road before us. We have easy access to a storehouse of wisdom and experience because, as most new home educating parents will testify, the...