Homeschooling Magazine For Canadians: Fall 2025 Issue Get professional advice, news, and educational insights about home education. For over 30 years, HSLDA Canada has been publishing a periodical for homeschooling parents. The Homeschool Review is an annual magazine filled with content geared to homeschooling families, especially related to legal matters, teaching approaches, homeschool groups/events,
Conferences are a unique opportunity to hear great speakers, get answers to important questions, browse and buy curriculum, and make connections with other families in your area. While not every family can make it to a conference every year, there is great value in attending when you can. Everyone from those brand new to home
By: Joseph Woodard When picking books for their kids, new homeschooling moms will run into the mysterious phrase, “age appropriate,” and may throw up their hands, thinking there’s just one more issue where they lack all the required expertise. But Christian children’s librarians insist that there’s no reason to worry. Moms know better than any
By Joseph Woodard Many young moms, deliberating their options for educating their kids, may sense that their five- or six-year-old is not quite ready for the hurly-burly of the public school system. Yet, if they consider educating their child at home, and then talk to committed homeschoolers, they may come away feeling like they’d be
By Dr. Joseph Woodard Simply leaping into great books is not a bad impulse, and it’s certainly better than thinking they’re beyond us or our teens. Admittedly, a first exposure to something really foreign sometimes bewilders us — Homer’s Iliad or Aeschylus’ plays — and we just can’t get our bearings. So we might be
Many parents are discovering that there is something seriously destructive in the ideology driving our public schools. During the COVID lockdowns, Canadian homeschooling doubled, from three to six percent of school-age children, while the US grew from six to over eleven percent. More importantly, three-quarters of the new parent-educators stuck with it, after the schools reopened.
Our toddler granddaughter, busily flitting about the room, falls and smacks her hand on a chair. Previously absorbed in toys and siblings, she now scrunches up her eyes and cries, shrinking down into herself. Absorbed by her pain, her attention has fallen out of the room, into her hand. Our son studies the scene, to
By Joe Woodard In my early twenties, I had an embarrassing experience, betraying a shallowness of character. I’d read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, some years earlier, since it was on the list of books every educated person must read. Being male, however, I read entirely for its plot (a little dull and stuffy, and
Introduction When making significant decisions about your child’s life, it is essential to be well informed about all of your options. Otherwise, you run the risk of choosing a course of action that is inferior to another; and, your initial choice may not be in the best interest of your child. This is
By Catherine Malichecq The monitorial system is a teaching method developed in 1747 in France, then in Great Britain, before spreading to the rest of Europe in the 19th century. It depends on the principles of cooperation, autonomy, and responsibility, terms currently used by teachers dissatisfied with traditional teaching methods. The History of the Method
