What Makes it Matter?
By Martin Vervloet I have noticed a trend with my own children as my wife and I have endeavoured tohomeschool them. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, but they continually ask us,“Why do I need to know this, and will it matter when I grow up?” It’s a valid question and Imust admit there […]
The Early Years and the First Struggles of AHEA
Dave and Aline Stasiewich began home schooling in Edmonton in 1983. That same year they began hosting informal meetings at their house with a small number of other home educating families. The numbers of people attending continued to grow, so the meetings were moved to the Mill Woods Recreation Centre. This group became known as […]
2024 AHEA Convention in Review
“Home schooling Reimagined” – AHEA Convention 2024 was another exciting time of gathering in Red Deer at theend of May, to enjoy speakers, attend work-shops, go curriculum shopping, make new friends and re-connect with each other. I was privileged to direct my second AHEA convention and it was again an honour. Connie Albers, a veteran […]
Why Do We Homeschool?
I was asked an interesting question at the AHEA convention this past spring that I was glad to answer, and I thought that it might be a question that others were asking. The question was simple and went something like this; “Why is it that homeschooling has such strong Christian roots?” Now, admittedly not all […]
The Need for an Accurate Measure
In any homeschool environment there comes a time when you teach the young ones about weights and measures. In our culture the accepted standards are either the Metric system or the Imperial system. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. In a perfect world, the Metric system with its emphasis on the base 10, which is, of course, the […]
Unhurried Homeschooling: Why We Need to Slow Down
We have been homeschooling for over 27 years. We have eight children that we have homeschooled from the start. We’ve graduated 7 from high school and one from college. When I started this journey with our kids, the internet wasn’t in existence. We didn’t have cell phones and homeschool curriculum availability was limited. As the years have passed, I’ve […]
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