Let's face it, homeschooling life can be busy, especially if you have a larger family. Your day needs all the flexibility you can get. Recorded, self-paced courses provide you this flexibility, empowering your homeschooling schedule to work for you instead of feeling like a strict regimen you are locked in to. In this post, we are going to highlight the ten ways Homeschool Connections' recorded online classes can benefit you!

This is just another example of how you can take an eclectic approach to our online classes to make them work for your schedule. Mixing and matching a few summer courses can really add up; if you managed to take a semester's worth of courses every summer, you could graduate high school an entire semester early!

This list starts with the simple and moves to the complex. I begin with picture books for little boys and end with serious books for grown men. This is a list for littles, tweens, teens, and beyond.

Resting and leisure are important parts of education, so we do not suggest you plow through the summer months without any sort of let up. If you do homeschool during the summer, I recommend homeschooling "light."

There is a very good reason for every Catholic to know the great works of literature—and that is because the great works of literature help us to know ourselves. This is the reason that we should learn the humanities - because the humanities teach us about humanity, both our own humanity and the humanity of our neighbours.

Time moves swiftly, and though it is still early in the Spring semester, summer break will be here before you know. That means it is not too early to start thinking about summer enrichment activities for your family and your Catholic homeschool.

Back in the day when I first started homeschooling, most of us were eclectic homeschoolers or unschoolers. Catholic homeschooling was very unstructured with few resources available. There were few home study programs and little homeschool curriculum. Most of us lived at the library, relied on our homeschooling friends, and found educational value in everyday life.

What is philosophy exactly, and why should our students learn it? The study of philosophy not only teaches particular truths about life and the human person, but it inculcates students with a disposition of truth-seeking. The reflective person is not only one who knows, but who knows why and how they know.

Catholic homeschooling is about more than injecting Catholic content into your curriculum; it's about living the Catholic faith in your homeschool. How can we integrate the Catholic faith into our homeschool in a way that nourishes the heart, not just the head?