Author Archives: Barbara Frank

Free Legal Coverage for Homeschooling Families

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I recently received an email from Christine Field, who’s a fellow homeschooling mom and an attorney. She shared some exciting news:

I work for a legal ministry called Homeschool Legal Advantage, a ministry of the Christian Law Association. CLA has been representing clients (including lots of
homeschoolers!) in matters of faith and religious freedom for 40 years.

Homeschool Legal Advantage represents a new idea in legal services for homeschoolers. We operate on a donations basis, rather than a yearly premium.
The face of homeschooling is changing, and we believe the delivery of legal services to homeschoolers should change too.

We offer first year members a FREE membership! For that membership, you receive 24-hour-a-day access to an attorney. We help parents resolve challenges to their
homeschooling, up to and including litigation if the matter is a direct constitutional challenge to homeschooling. If you are pleased with your first
year of service, we ask you to renew on a suggested donation basis. As “legal missionaries” we are blessed to be of service to the homeschool community.

In addition to access to legal services, first year members receive a FREE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT. We are committed to the right to life and the preservation of
the family, and that commitment begins pre-birth and extends to death. This will is a demonstration of that commitment and another valuable service we can
provide for homeschoolers. Think about how much it would cost you to hire a private lawyer just to draft your will! We offer you your membership and the
will – for FREE.

Sign-up is easy. Just visit our website at www.HomeschoolLegalAdvantage.com and click on JOIN NOW. You will be asked for a coupon code. Enter CLA (which stands
for Christian Law Association) and we will send you a membership card, along with a form for you and your spouse to fill out for your will. In a few weeks,
our attorneys mail you your will, ready to execute according to the laws of your state.

How can we afford to do this? The Lord has provided for the Christian Law Association ministry for 40 years and we rely on Him as we increase.

It’s time for a new look at legal services for homeschoolers. Check us out at www.HomeschoolLegalAdvantage.com.

Nobody Told Me That I’d Get the Independent Kids I Wanted, and I Wouldn’t Always Like It!

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I first learned about homeschooling from reading Home-Grown Kids by Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore. That was when I was a new parent, so I had time to do some research before making the decision to homeschool. I did a lot of reading; one of my prime influences was John Holt.

Holt was a teacher whose school experiences taught him that when given freedom to make choices and explore their world, children learn on their own. Reading his books was an eye-opening experience for me. It helped me assess my own childhood school years and why I’d been so dissatisfied with them.

For many years, John Holt published a wonderful newsletter called “Growing Without Schooling” that was a great encouragement to homeschooling parents. I inhaled each issue, and decided that encouraging my children’s desire for independent learning would be part of their home education.

This was fine in theory. Continue reading →

Seems Obvious, Right?

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A school district in Georgia that was having financial difficulties decided to cut the school week to four days in order to save money. The result, according to the school superintendent?

Test scores went up.

So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said.

And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said.

Hmmm….if doing less of something results in more success, why not get rid of it all together and see what happens?  🙂

New! Bible Study for Mothers and Daughters

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(UPDATE 10/17/18 SEE BELOW)

Woohoo! My newest book is out  🙂

There’s nothing like the feel of a fresh new book, right fellow book lovers? And I’ve got to tell you that seeing my name on it and knowing that it’s the result of a couple of years’ worth of work is a good feeling!

Hot off the press: Women of the Old Testament: 14 In-Depth Bible Studies for Teens with Mother-Daughter Discussion Starters, a book I wrote six years ago for our daughter Mary, who was 13 at the time. Continue reading →

Nobody Told Me That Homeschooling Would Create So Much Clutter!

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I first heard about homeschooling when our eldest was a newborn and our child-related clutter was limited to a diaper bag, a playpen and a few baby toys and stuffed animals.

Fast-forward 26 years…..after two moves in two years, we continue to fight the paring- down battle of stuff even though two children have left home and two remain. In one box I find old bottles of tempera paints that are easy to pitch because they’re all dried up. In another I find a set of rubber stamps that bring back memories of my children stamping out their names in ink and coloring in the letters. Still perfectly good and made much sturdier than what can be found in stores today, they’re not so easy to give up because of their condition and the fact that they bring back so many memories. Multiply that by many boxes’ worth of art supplies, books, drawings, book reports, educational games, hobby supplies and small craft projects (at least I didn’t keep the big ones!), and you can understand why it’s taking us so long to go through everything. Continue reading →