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AB 2109: Vaccination Waiver Threatened—Calls Needed Call now to protect parental rights. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> Joint Legislative Action Alert—April 26, 2012 From: Roy Hanson—Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith—HSLDA Bill: AB Continue reading California Vaccination Waiver Threatened I know politics is one of those subjects you just don't address, but I am going to try it! We will see what happens! OK, so I got this chain email as I am sure a ton of you did. And I am not truly sure if the numbers are accurate or not, but Continue reading America’s Obituary As graduation ceremonies were under way, there was a stern warning that this class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it however… Continue reading God Bless You!  March 28th, 2012 | Category: Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education Act now to oppose AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> From: Roy Hanson’s Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith’s HSLDA Bill: AB 2203 (as Continue reading Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education Most of you are probably saying where is NutBugs Heart of Dakota Weekly Update this week. Well, Our schedule is that we school for 5 weeks on and then we take a week off. This allows us MANY breaks through out the year, especially since we school (for the most part) year round. So instead Continue reading How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento October 14th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Politics, Sales | Leave a comment I just received an email from HSLDA in regards to this. I know that this does not affect me now, but in the future this could affect thosse of us in California too. And to my friends and readers who live in Florida, I am sure you are well aware of what is going on. Continue reading Response to Alarming Recommendations by Miami-Dade County Grand Jury For those of you who do not have HSLDA, I had to re-post this article from HSLDA. This is the big "WHY" if you have not spent the $100 a year for this wonderful service this is the why you need to beg or borrow the $100 to get it. By the way, they are Continue reading Right to Reasonably Resist Unlawful Police Entry Struck Down Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas FAFSA Form: Which Box to Check? In the past, some parents were advised to choose “high school diploma” on the FAFSA form. However, due to the regulation change, making this selection could be problematic for homeschoolers whose schools do not appear on the Continue reading Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas November 2nd, 2010 | Category: Articles, Economy, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Politics | Leave a comment You did it! There's no question that your taking time to get involved has influenced Dominion Services and Richmond, Virginia, parade organizers to reverse an earlier decision to replace "Christmas" with "holiday." Late yesterday afternoon, after thousands of emails and hundreds of phone calls to Dominion, parade organizers posted a statement on their website stating, Continue reading We Did it…Christmas is Back The city of Richmond, Virginia, has turned coward because the new sponsor of its annual parade wants to ban the word "Christmas." When Dominion, an energy company, took over sponsorship of the parade, it told the city it no longer wanted to use "Christmas" as part of the parade name. Instead, Dominion said it will Continue reading City bans ‘Christmas’ in favor of ‘holiday’ parade – War against Christmas starting already It is important to keep accurate records of what you are doing. Your records will help keep you organized and aware of your children’s progress. They will also be verification of your validity as a private homeschool should you ever be questioned. You want to be taken seriously not only for your own sake but Continue reading REQUIRED RECORDS I just received this article by Susan K. Stewart from one of the organizations here in California called CHEA. I thought it worthy enough to re-post for you all who are not members of CHEA to read. Enjoy! Last fall the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) together with the National Continue reading States Adopting National Standards Oh say can you see….the bombs bursting in the air….for the land of the FREE and the home of the brave! Today we thank God for the freedom we have here…I mean really thank God! We live in a country that is like no other. For all the good and Continue reading Happy Independance Day July 4th, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment AMERICA\'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS Video With July 4th coming up I wanted to really impact you all with some to think about. Our friends, our family, people we know or even you may have been involved in taking away the one freedom our country was founded on. As we come up the this holiday, I want Continue reading AMERICA’S RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS? July 3rd, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment In the state of California, parents have not been authorized to teach driver education and driver training. Any parent wanting their child to obtain a driving permit needed to have him or her complete a driver education/driver training course through a public or private school, or commercial driving program. For many years homeschoolers were able Continue reading Surprising Changes in DMV Policy June 24th, 2010 | Category: Articles, In the News, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Politics, Reviews | Leave a comment Surprising Changes in DMV Policy In the state of California, parents have not been authorized to teach driver education and driver training. Any parent wanting their child to obtain a driving permit needed to have him or her complete a driver education/driver training course through a public or private school, or commercial driving program. For Continue reading California Surprising Changes in DMV Policy June 1st, 2010 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting, Politics | Leave a comment The horrific news from Haiti has filled your living room. News reports a unimaginable death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people. 3 million people were affected. Nearly the entire capital city of Port-au-Prince is devastated and covered in rubble. Is it too late to help? The initial media-enthusiasm is waning, yet millions of people in Continue reading Praying and Learning about Haiti Just a reminder to all that it is the middle of October and if you live in California and still have not filed your California state private school affidavit form, it is time. You have from October 1 to October 15th to file. Now if your scared or nervous and just are not sure Continue reading Time to File Your California Private School Affidavit (PSA) I read this article from the Dakota Voiceyesterday. It was all about the superior academic performance of homeschooled students. People are always concerned that homeschooled kids can be out of touch and not socialized and immatureand don’t get a good education due to the fact that a non licences person is teaching the Continue reading Homeschooling Report Dispels Many Education Myths Yea, you read the title correctly. Judge Orders Homeschooler into Public School for Being Too Religious. Now wait till you read it. She was not directed to go to public school because she was behind in her academics. No, she was directed to Continue reading Court Ordering a 10-year Old Girl From Homeschooling Into a Public School. September 3rd, 2009 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Politics, Reviews | Leave a comment A parent’s right to raise their children as they see fit is a time-honored American tradition, but today it is being threatened. The Supreme Court’s Troxel v. Granville decision in 2000 undermined a 75-year heritage of Constitutionally-protected, fundamental parental rights, which 8 of the 9 justices abandoned. At the same time, a growing body of Continue reading A Parent’s Right To Raise Their Children I find it interesting that a high school principal can see the problem, but not our society. This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLeod”It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football Continue reading Do Not Be Ashamed May 31st, 2009 | Category: Articles, Biblical, In the News, Parenting, Personal Life, Politics | 2 comments Everyone who knows my family and me knows we were very opposed to Obama. Not because of his skin color, but because of his policies on several issues like abortion, homeschooling etc. Things that were close and dear to my heart and to families around the USA. One of the things that really bothered me Continue reading Thoughts on Inauguration Day & President Just a few minutes ago I was on my review teams blog and I read about this new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. This act was signed into law in August but will not take effect until Feb. 10th, 2009. What this law basically says is that items that come in contact with a child Continue reading Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act OK, so I know there is this continuous battle between the public school Christians and the Homeschooling Christians. A lot of times the public school Christians feel like us homeschoolers are calling them bad parents or bad Christians for putting their children in the Devils path. And the homeschooler feels the public schoolers are calling Continue reading The Future Belongs to Our Children November 16th, 2008 | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Politics | Leave a comment Now I think most people would agree that when a certain gene in an animal is not used over an extremely long period of time that the gene goes dormant. Would you say that in the animal kingdom most male animals find a female animal to procreate so that their species can live on and Continue reading Hot Topic for Discussion Now I know allot of my friends are saying…Oh I am not worried about this homosexual thing coming to my school. I have Christian teachers. Or worst yet they are putting on the rose colored glasses and thinking it will never come to the schools here in the O.C. we are pretty conservative here in Continue reading Gay Pledge Cards in Calif. Schools November 10th, 2008 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting, Politics | One comment I suppose this sort of thing shouldn’t be shocking. You have to go to the original site that wrote the article and see the video. Pretty bad!!!! This Article is by Charlie Sykes This is a video of Diantha Harris, a lifelong democrat and avid Barack Obama supporter. She is also a lousy schoolteacher, Continue reading Another Reason To Homeschool Our Kids November 10th, 2008 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Politics | Leave a comment So here I am once again writing about politics. For those of you who have known me for most of my life, you know this is not me! However, this year is so important to our country not only who we vote for but on several of the propositions. So instead of preaching about prop Continue reading Prop 8 Our state Assembly has put forth bill A3123, which seeks to highly regulate homeschoolers. We will all pay higher school property taxes if the bill passes.A3123 will force every homeschooling family to be evaluated as to whether their education is appropriate. However, “appropriate education” is not defined in the bill. We know from experience that Continue reading Bill A3123 Ok, so I am not that savvy on politics. Never have been! But I really think this year is soooo very important. Now most of you know I am very conservative so obviously I like McCain. He is a TRUE American. He LOVES our country and will lay down his life for it. Well, he Continue reading Politics Are Rising Prices Scaring You? I haven’t decided if I should just laugh or start tearing my hair out. First everyone panicked over the price of gas… then it was the price of apples, then milk and now rice. What I find so amusing about the whole thing is a lot of those same people Continue reading Are Rising Prices Scaring You? |
