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Feb. 15, 2019
2019 Sonlight Scholarship Winners Announced
Please meet and join us in congratulating these remarkable Sonlight-educated students poised to make a difference in the world. As the winners of our annual Sonlight scholarship competition, they have each been awarded each with $20,000, $10,000 or $4,000 for … Continue reading
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Dec. 3, 2018
Homeschooling Pre-teen Boys: 8 Guidelines That Bring Peace
It’s happening before my very eyes: my charming, compliant adolescent son is being replaced by a slightly less appealing version—a version that bristles at instruction and grits his teeth at disliked tasks. To be blunt, homeschooling my pre-teen boy is not … Continue reading
Tagged adolescents, boys, high school, Homeschooling, middle school, parenting, pre-teen, sons, teens
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Nov. 7, 2018
STEM Students Need Literature, Too
My second son is a junior this year. STEM subjects come naturally to him. For example, he is currently holding a solid A in calculus, and given the choice between spending an afternoon testing physics laws or digging into Shakespeare, … Continue reading
Tagged college bound, high school, literature, science, STEM
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Oct. 3, 2018
Give Your Teen the Gift of Independent Learning by Homeschooling
Several years back, when one of my older daughters was wading into her first semester of college, she called and thanked me. Not for passing on great recipes, showing her how to wash her own clothes, or allowing her to … Continue reading
Aug. 1, 2018
9 Ways to Motivate the Dawdling Teenager to Get Homeschool Done
Raising teenagers gets a bad rap. Ask most moms and they will let you in on a huge secret—raising and homeschooling teens is one of the most rewarding phases of parenting! You finally start to see the fruit of years … Continue reading
Tagged dawdling, high school, Homeschooling, problems, struggles, teens, tips, troubleshooting
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Jul. 11, 2018
How I Choose Sonlight Programs for a 4-Year High School Plan
I’ve often been asked which Sonlight levels we use for high school and how I determine which levels to do and which to skip. I’ve also been asked about some of the middle school levels (F, G, and H mainly) … Continue reading
Tagged college bound, high school, high school credit, Sonlight, transcript, transcripts
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May. 20, 2018
Where Are They Now: Tegan Duke
This post is part of the Where Are They Now series in which we hear the stories of long-time Sonlight users who are now thriving young adults. Tegan of Cape Town, South Africa has been homeschooled all her life. She began … Continue reading
