Homeschool Update Magazine - 2020, Volume 1, Issue 106

2020 IVOLUME 1 IISSUE 106
T H E H E A R T O F H O M E S C H O O L I N G
8 Habits of
Highly Successful
Homeschoolers
Living Out Your
Own Faith
Bilingual
Homeschooling
Respecting
Others' Time12 15 16 30
ARTICLES INSIDE THIS ISSUE INCLUDE
YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS IN
1990-2020
Colorado

1990
Several
homeschool
groups band
together to form
CHEC
2019
Colorado
Homeschool.com launches,
featuring a free video
course educating parents
on how to homeschool in
Colorado
1991
The first executive
director is hired,
and the Colorado
Homeschool
Conference is
sponsored by
CHEC
2001
The CHEC
Independent
School is
launched
2003
The first Colorado
Father Son Retreat
is co-hosted by
CHEC
2010
CHEC joins
Facebook
2014
The CHEC
Independent School’s
enrollment is moved
online
1994
First Homeschool Day at
the Capitol is sponsored
in response to a national
battle for parent-
led homeschooling.
CHEC also works to
pass Senate Bill 94-4,
improving the original
1988 homeschool law
2007
Generations becomes
a subsidiary of CHEC
(reaching families
worldwide with a biblical
vision for family and life)
1995
The first
Homeschool
Update
magazine is
published
2016
The first CHEC
Homeschool
Legislative Liaison is
hired
Father Son
Retreat
CHEC Board
Day at the Capitol
1997
CHEC.org is
launched
1998
The first
Homeschool
Introductory
Seminar is
hosted
2017
Homeschool
Summits.com is launched,
reaching 50,000+
families worldwide
30 YEARSof CHRISTIAN HOME EDUCATORS OF COLORADO
1990-2020Celebrating
thank you, Lord!

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CHEC Homeschool Update IVolume 1, 2020 IIssue 106
INSIDE
Feature Articles
6 Celebrating the
Island of Freedom
BY KEVIN SWANSON
8 Contributions of the
Pilgrims to America
BY JAMES AND BARBARA ROSE
12 8 Habits of Highly
Successful
Homeschoolers
BY MARCIA WASHBURN
15 Living Out
Your Own Faith
BY JOSHUA SCHWISOW
16 Bilingual
Homeschooling
BY LAUREN STENGELE
28 3 Strategies for
Language Disorders
BY DAWN SPENCE
CHEC Events
10 Day at the Capitol
PRESENTED BY CHEC 21-25 Rocky Mountain
HomeschoolConference
PRESENTED BY CHEC
Columns
4 Director’s Desk
18 Homeschool Leaders
26 Legislative Liaison

30 Best of Blog
32 Resource Review
34 Partner’s Page
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So, how was your
day? It's a
common question my wife
and I ask each other at the
end of the day.
My kids have picked up on it and now they
have started to greet me in the evenings with
the same question. Occasionally, my answer is,
“I had a great day!” But I have been convicted
by the fact that frequently my response is much
less enthusiastic and positive. Why? Because
there are often a myriad of ways that I feel that
the day could have gone better.
As my wife and I reflect on our own child-
hoods, we agree that the overall tone of
happiness in our homes factored heavily into
why we grew up thinking that homeschooling
was great. We agree that the attitudes of our
parents were decidedly influential in shaping
that tone. As a matter of fact, our mothers are
two of the most constantly joyful and optimis-
tic people that we know. No wonder we thought
homeschooling was great!
Shaping the tone of my home, even in simple ways, like
how I answer the question, “So, how was your day?”
is an area where I want to grow. Here are three truths
that God has used to challenge me toward a more faith-
filled optimism about life in the coming year.
Truth #1: Christ has Overcome
the World
Life is hard. Sometimes, homeschooling makes life
harder. But Jesus proclaims to us in John 16:33
NKJV that there is a reality which trumps the dif-
ficulties of life. In the world you will have tribulation;
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Christians have the best reason to be in a good
mood because we know that Christ has defeated sin,
death, and all of the symptoms of Adam’s curse that
cause us pain on a daily basis. Whatever problem
you have today, Christ has overcome it! So what is
up with our bad attitudes? They are a result of failing
to live by faith in the conquering Son of God. Christ
has already won the race of life for us. We are just
running the victory lap.
You know that excited feeling you get just before a
much-anticipated getaway with your wife or hus-
band? That is the feeling that Christians have during
life on earth when they believe that Heaven, and the
wiping away of all tears, is just around the corner.
How Was
We need to remember, when life is tough, that we
are going on “vacation” tomorrow!
Truth #2: Trials result in trans-
formed character, hope, and a
deeper sense of God’s love and
faithfulness
Romans 8:28 teaches us that God uses every event
for good in the lives of those who love Him. But,
James 1:2–4, Romans 5:3–5, and Hebrews 12:6–11
break down in detail how this good results from
trials and what God’s endgame is — growth in
Christlike character, the experience of God’s faithful-
ness, and the hope and knowledge of God’s love
that flows from that experience. This is a purpose
that is so good that Paul and James say we should
“rejoice” and “count it all joy” when trials come.
I’ll have to be honest; my flesh likes hearing this
about as much as a child likes to be told, “Eat
your vegetables because they are good for you!”
Sometimes my flesh screams back, “Seriously? Can
I just skip to dessert?” But Christians are those who
live not according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. One of my church elders told me that trials
to a Christian are like blood in the water to a shark.
They should actually make us excited!
BY STEVE CRAIG
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Truth #3: We have every reason
for attitudes of gratitude
When I think about whether or not I had a good day,
I often have a tendency to prioritize and obsess
about uncompleted tasks, the things I wish had
gone better, or the uncertainties that loom ahead.
The reality is that the physical and spiritual bless-
ings of God, His answers to my prayers, the proofs
of His faithfulness, and His daily mercies are all
around me. There really isn’t any good reason for
a less than enthusiastic response to the question,
“So, how was your day?”
When my attitude is bad, it is usually because I am
just not grateful. Grateful for Christ. Grateful to be a
son of God. Grateful for forgiveness. Grateful for my
beautiful wife. Grateful for my sweet children. Grate-
ful for my mother and father. Grateful for my church.
Grateful for a home on earth. Grateful for a home
in Heaven. Grateful for work. Grateful for health.
Grateful for God’s constant provision. The list goes
on and on. Have you ever taken your family out of
the house for a really fun day, only to return home
WHEN LIFE IS
TOUGH, WE NEED TO
REMEMBER THAT WE ARE
GOING ON 'VACATION'
TOMORROW.
“ “
and have one child get upset about a comparatively
small thing that they wanted and didn’t get? Do you
catch my drift?
It is not just that we should be “glass half full”
instead of “glass half empty” kind of people. Our
cup is actually running over and spilling all over the
place according to Psalm 23:5. We need to be grate-
ful and joyful about it!
I invite you to join me in the quest to affect the
tone in our homes this year through a faith-filled
optimism that springs from the truth that Christ has
overcome the world and all of its problems. Trials
are only eventually causing good in our lives, and
we have every reason to define our lives with an
attitude of gratitude. The next time our spouse or
child asks us, “So, how was your day?”, join me in
responding with, “It was AMAZING!” 
Steve Craig is the
Executive Director for
Christian Home
Educators of Colorado.
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PHOTOGRAPHYBYISTOCK
ISLAND OF
FREEDOM
Celebrating the
Acouple of decades
ago I published
one of my first books,
The Second Mayflower.
It elaborated on the
idea that a new, legal,
educational choice
called homeschooling
was an important
“island of freedom”
for Christian parents to
seriously consider for
raising their children.
Akin to the first Mayflower, which brought
the Pilgrims freedom from anti-Christian
persecution and the ability to disciple families
according to biblical principles 400 years ago,
this “second Mayflower” would do the same for
contemporary Christian families who sought
biblically-based homeschooling as the best
educational choice for their children.
Fast forward to today, and the latest statistics
are out for that island of freedom called home
education. Pew Research provides some defini-
tive numbers for the homeschooling population in
America, now at 4,500,000 students. When Christian
Home Educators of Colorado opened its doors 30
years ago, that number was 275,000. That’s an
increase of 15-fold in 30 years! God is good.
At the present rate of growth, there will be 20 million
homeschooled children in this country by the year
2040. Evangelical Christians make up 46% of the
homeschool population, although that’s still only
10% of the total evangelical population.
In a world of bad news, I have to say this is good news!
In my recent book, The Story of Freedom, I push for
families to seek freedom from powerful governments
which seem to want to dictate how we raise our
children, how we immunize them, how we educate
them, how we teach them about sexuality, and so
forth. Extremely powerful governments have been
very insistent on controlling the education of children
for the last two hundred years!
Americans are so blessed to have this island
of freedom, but this is not always the case for
homeschooling families in foreign countries. This is
why at least two sets of homeschooling parents are
in prison (or work camps) in Cuba today. This is why
Pastor Wang Yi and many other Chinese Christians
are in prison in communist China. The Washington
Examiner reported that, “Many Christian parents
[in China] can face fines or other consequences
for bringing their children to church or raising their
children in faith at home. Likewise, teachers are
not supposed to share their religious beliefs with
children, and schools cannot use religious materials
as textbooks.
Truthfully, there is no difference between China and
America in regards to the battle for home education.
The battle for liberty and faith in the modern world
centers around this issue: whether or not parents can
direct the education of their own children while rais-
ing them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
The battle is the same in America, Germany, China,
and Cuba. It is not just a political battle. It is a spiri-
tual battle. This calls for the most courage, the most
faith, and the most resoluteness of caring, Christian
parents in America and throughout the world.
By God’s grace, we have been given islands of freedom
in this country for our families. The Lord has carved out
opportunities for families to take control of the educa-
tion, the health care choices, etc. for their own children.
We do not have to send our children to schools that will
not teach that the beginning of knowledge is the fear of
BY KEVIN SWANSON
FAMILY ENCOURAGEMENT

God (Proverbs 1:7), and where Christ is not preeminent
in every subject (Colossians 1:17). We are not forced to
enroll our children into schools which teach humanist,
nihilistic ethics, the radical homosexual agenda, and
the destructive patterns of transgenderism. Praise God,
we enjoy a measure of liberty on this island of freedom!
If there was ever a time that Christian families need
to take back their right to liberty from the one-size-
fits-all, monolithic statist schools, that would be now.
The ideologies taught in American institutions have
become increasingly and obviously self-destructive,
both to knowledge and morality.
Some Christians have concerns that we are “separat-
ing” from the systems that are admittedly growing
worse and worse. They seem to think that their
children have a duty to save the public school sys-
tems by bearing witness to the Gospel in the secular
classrooms. When it comes to these matters, I like to
say, “What does the Bible say? What does Jesus tell
us to do?” He doesn’t recommend that our 12-year-
old kids are responsible for “saving” the public
school institution. Rather, He has commanded us in
Ephesians 6:4b (NKJV), Bring them up in the training
and admonition of the Lord. We are NOT commanded
to send our children out to be raised in the “training
and admonition of Caesar.” The Pilgrims separated
themselves from the secular European world and their
legacy for us continues today.
Moreover, the Word of God is to be thoroughly
integrated into our children’s education, as they walk
by the way, as they rise up, and as they lie down. The
Word of God is to be as a frontlet before their eyes, in
the history class, the literature class, and the science
class. The government is not committed to this form
of paideia (or education). That’s what God actually
wants for our children, as plainly communicated to us
through Scripture.
There will be significant spiritual and often political
pushback if you begin to make certain decisions
regarding your children’s education. That is because
there is a battle raging over the hearts and minds of
the next generation. It is a major power struggle. May
God give all of us the courage and the faith to engage
and never grow weary. 
Kevin Swanson is the
former Executive
Director of CHEC, and
the current Executive
Director of Genera-
tions, an affiliate ministry of CHEC. Listen to the
compelling stories of our own day as they play out
on Kevin’s daily radio podcast, at Generations.org.
“
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THE BATTLE FOR
LIBERTY AND FAITH
IN THE MODERN
WORLD CENTERS
AROUND WHETHER
OR NOT PARENTS
CAN DIRECT THE
EDUCATION OF THEIR
OWN CHILDREN.
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PILGRIMSTO
AMERICA
Contributions of the
to “daily renew our repentance with our God, especially
for our sins known, and generally for our unknown
trespasses … .”
Second, the Pilgrims were sepa-
ratists and believed in the local,
self-governing, independent,
congregational form of church
government. The Pilgrims ...
... had gained the intelligence that comes from
the diligent study of the Bible and … were honest
and earnest believers in the Christ of the New
Testament. Such were the men and the women
who were thus driven out of their native England,
yet hunted and intercepted in their flight, as if
they were criminals escaping from justice. Why
did they suffer the spoiling of their goods, arrest,
imprisonment, and exile?
They had caught from the Bible the idea of a
church independent of the pope and the queen
alike, independent of Parliament as well as of
prelates (politicians), and dependent only on
Christ. It was their mission to work out and
organize that idea. (Leonard Bacon, Genesis of
the New England Churches, 1874)
Individual self government and independent self-gov-
erning churches produced a free, independent, local
civil government under the Mayflower Compact.
BY JAMES AND BARBARA ROSE
This new year, 2020
AD, marks the 400th
anniversary of the
Pilgrims landing in what
would later become the
United States of America.
As we remember their
courage and sacrifice
for the cause of Christ —
not just at Thanksgiving
but year-round — let us
also glean wisdom and
guidance from their
steadfast belief in biblical
principals and trust in
Almighty God whom
they followed into an
unknown future which
inevitably blessed us all.
This excerpt is from the
third in a series of articles
written by James Rose,
an expert on the Pilgrims,
along with his wife,
Barbara. They included
Old World English words
and phrases typical of
the Pilgrim time.
What do you know
about the Pilgrims?
Their lives were more than
merely fleeing religious
persecution in England and
the worldly influences on
their families in Holland. They
lived with a purpose wholly
devoted to Christ and the
Gospel, which had a profound
effect on future Americans.
First, the Pilgrims believed in “Ref-
ormation without tarrying for any”
— as demonstrated by an individual
and personal responsibility to obey
God’s Word.
To the Pilgrim, it meant “voluntary conformity” to the
rules and principles given in the New Testament, without
waiting for others to obey, without waiting for the Church
to change, and especially not waiting for the king to reform
the church.
Reformation presupposes repentance, and the pastor of the
Pilgrims, Rev. John Robinson, exhorted the Pilgrim church

Third, they cast aside commu-
nism in labor and supply for
individual enterprise.
Did you know that the Pilgrims signed a contract with
some London businessmen to obtain “their meat,
drink, and apparel and all provisions out of the com-
mon stock and goods of the said colony?” Agreeing
to the condition that all property [should] be publicly
owned and that every person would get an equal
share of their common labor and supplies — a form
of communism/socialism in labor and supply — was
the only way they could obtain the funds to acquire
the religious liberty they wanted.
The Pilgrims strove for two years to keep this part of the
contract, but the result was such dissention, discord,
and want that their Governor cast off communism and
established INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE. He assigned
all the unmarried folks and orphans to live with more
complete families, assigned each family their own
plot of ground as their private property, and left every
household to “shift for itself or suffer want.”
Governor Bradford listed nine reasons why com-
munism in labor and supply did not work:
1. Taking away private property and sharing
everything in common did not make them
happy and flourishing — as if they were wiser
than God.
2. Communism in labor and supply breeds much
confusion and discontent.
3. It retards [delays] employment.
4. The younger, able, and stronger men com-
plained that they should spend their time and
strength to work for other men’s wives and
children without recompense or reward.
5. The most able men thought it unjust not to
receive more food or clothing than he that was
weak and less productive.
6. The older and “graver” or serious and solemn
men did not like to be ranked as equal to the
younger men in labor, food, or clothing and saw
such equality as an “indignity and disrespect”.
7. Neither husbands nor wives wanted to be com-
manded to serve other men by fixing their food
or washing their clothes — they saw this as a
form of slavery.
8. The idea of all persons sharing alike, doing
alike, being alike did not agree with “those rela-
tions that God hath set among men.”
9. Communal property and communism in labor
and supply diminished the mutual respect that
should be practiced between people.
The Governor wisely displaced communism/so-
cialism for individual enterprise and industry and
productivity increased enormously. But God intended
the Pilgrims learn to trust Him, not their own wisdom,
by permitting a drought and heatwave to descend
on the land for nearly two months during spring
time. The corn withered away and the ground was
parched, so the Pilgrims “set apart a day of humili-
ation” and sought the Lord by humble and fervent
prayer in their great distress — and the rains came. 
Let us now then live up to the high
standard of faith and fortitude,
individual enterprise, living as families,
and caring for our private property as
demonstrated by the Pilgrims. May we
seek to raise up the next generation of
Christians who continue faithful work
under Almighty God’s protective hand.
The authors, James and Barbara Rose, wrote for the
American Christian History Institute. Permission to
reprint was given by the estate of James Rose. For
related articles, see PilgrimInstitute.org.
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hat is a successful
homeschool? What does it
look like? Is it defined by
children who score highly
on standardized tests?
Is it one in which everyone can’t wait to start
school each day? As we begin a new calendar
year, let’s examine habits that lead to highly
successful homeschooling.
HABIT #1: Keep the Heart
in Homeschooling
Christian homeschooling is distinctive in that,
in its ideal form, it is Christ-centered, parent-
directed, and free from government control.
When all three of these factors are in place, the
homeschool rests on a solid foundation.
Christ-centered. The most important thing we
should teach our children is to love God and to
serve Him in body, soul, and spirit. If we believe
that God is everywhere and knows the number
of hairs on our heads, shouldn’t we expect that
He will show up in our children’s education? If
we have bright kids with weak character, what
have we gained? We want to help our students to
parents teaching the children, not just plugging them
into a canned curriculum on a free computer.
Homeschooling has been astonishingly suc-
cessful due to these three elements we’re
calling the Heart of Homeschooling: parent-
directed, Christ-centered education, free of
government control. When these three aspects of
the heart of homeschooling are removed, we return to
the old assembly line ways of educating children and
the phenomenal successes of homeschooling vanish.
HABIT #2: Keep Your
Priorities Straight
Don’t allow your children’s education to become an
idol. Cultivating your personal relationship with the
Father is essential and must be your top priority. Next
is your marriage; as important as your children are,
your relationship with your spouse must come next.
Don’t center your home on your children; a child-
centered home is not a healthy home.
Your parenting/homeschooling/discipling responsi-
bilities come next. If you still have time for additional
ministry outside the home, that’s great, but know
when to say “no.” You will have to say “no” to many
worthwhile activities, including some learning op-
portunities for your children. Learn how to keep
the home in homeschooling.
excel, but they need to know the Lord more than they
need to know calculus and sentence-diagramming.
We are commanded in Deuteronomy 6:7–9 and
Psalm 78 to teach our children God’s ways. Knowing
and serving God is not an elective — this is the core
curriculum. Everything else is an elective. A secular
curriculum that ignores God is a weak substitute for
Christian materials that acknowledge the One Who
created us from nothing.
Parent-directed. Education is not stuffing informa-
tion into a child’s head. Education is discipling him
or her. A one-size-fits-all approach may work well
for building cars in a factory, but not for educating
children. When the parent selects teaching materi-
als based on the child’s unique abilities and needs,
the child thrives. We should follow the model Jesus
used with His disciples, teaching them as they walked
together, ate together, talked together, and rested
together.
Free from government control. No one except
God loves or understands a child better than his
parents. A government-controlled, school-at-home
approach cannot provide the optimum education for
the child because it cannot provide the individual-
ized methods for the child’s needs in the ways that a
parent can. Homeschooling succeeds not because it
is at home, but because of parental involvement —
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HABIT #3: Keep
on Learning
Some of you loved every minute of school and even
played school in the summertime. Others, for whatever
reason, didn’t thrive. Whether you thrived or dived in
school, you will now get the education you missed. You
learn what you teach — by repetition and by trying to
think of ways to teach it to a struggling child.
Parents who homeschool soon learn that
homeschooling is not simply an academic choice but
a unique lifestyle that allows every family member
to be all that they were designed to be. Both parents
and children are daily learning to serve and follow the
Lord. As parents we learn that we are not only teach-
ers, but students; not only disciplers, but disciples.
Set aside time and resources to “in-service” yourself.
Subscribe to homeschooling magazines. Sign up for
free encouragement from internet sites specifically
for homeschoolers. Budget for the books you need
as a teacher for your own professional development.1
And do whatever is necessary to get yourself and
your spouse to attend your state’s annual homeschool
conference; you will return refreshed and recharged!
HABIT #4: Become a
Student of Your Child
Study your child. What is his temperament?2
What is
her learning style?3
What is his love language?4
Is my
child ready to learn this particular skill?
One of our sons taught himself to read at age four;
another was still not reading at age ten. We set aside the
phonics materials, continuing with his other subjects.
When we returned to reading instruction six months
later, he could read. It was simply a readiness issue. An-
other son rapidly progressed to third grade math while
in kindergarten but got stuck on division. He stayed at
the same math level for two years until his readiness
level finally caught up and he moved on again.
HABIT #5: Seek Support
Avoid the Lone Ranger Mom Syndrome. Genesis 2:18
reminds us that it is not good for man to be alone. It
is not good for homeschoolers to operate in isolation
either. Connect on as many levels as possible to
ensure your homeschool
success. At the personal
level, you may find
a mentor who can
suggest solutions
for everything from
teaching challenges
to developing house-
hold management
skills that support the
homeschool lifestyle.
At the local level, join a support
group — both for your sake and for
your children’s. If necessary, start one that
works for you.5
At the state level, connect with your
state organization (CHEC.org) for conferences and
other special events. At the national level, utilize the
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA.
com) as a valuable resource.
HABIT #6: Realize Every
Homeschool Will
Look Different
Don’t compare yourself or your homeschool with
others. You are God’s choice as your child’s parent,
whether he is your child by birth, by adoption, or by
marriage. Be realistic in your expectations, both of
your children and of yourself. You can do this! God
does not call us to do what He does not enable us to
do. You’ve already taught your children the tough stuff
— walking, talking, and potty training. The rest is not
the overwhelming difficulty you might worry it is.6
HABIT #7: Enjoy
the Journey
Have fun together. Don’t get grim about learning.
Don’t school at home — instead, learn at home.
Explore your subjects together.
Develop a habit of happiness. Bobb Biehl says, “Hap-
piness is having what you want and wanting what you
have. By focusing your thinking on what you have
that you want, you will be a lot happier than focusing
your thinking on what you want but don’t have.”7
The
Apostle Paul wrote from a Philippian jail, for I have
learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be
recommended reading
• The Heart of Homeschooling by Chris Klicka
• You CAN Teach Your Child Successfully
by Ruth Beechick
• Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children
Shapes Our Souls by Gary Thomas
• Home Grown Kids by Raymond Moore
• Management for Moms by Marcia Washburn
content (Philippians 4:11b KJV). God has provided
everything you need for your present happiness.
HABIT #8: Trust God for
the Results
There will be days when you know in your heart that
homeschooling is the only way you would ever have it.
There will also be days when you question your deci-
sion to homeschool. It is easy to become discouraged
when we focus on ourselves. But when we focus on
God and His provision, our hope is restored.
Do your best, but don’t assume total responsibility
for every choice your child makes. God is the perfect
parent and look what His kids do sometimes! Focus
on God’s grace for your home. Parenting puts you on
your knees — homeschooling keeps you there! 
Footnotes · 1
Swanson, Kevin. Upgrade: Ten Secrets to the Best
Education for Your Child. 2
LaHaye, Tim. Why You Act the Way You
Do. 3
Duffy, Cathy. 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum.
4
Chapman, Gary. The Five Love Languages. 5
Washburn, Marcia.
Activity Days for Homeschool Groups Families. www.Marcia-
Washburn.com. 6
Washburn, Marcia. The Ideal Homeschooling
Mother. www.MarciaWashburn.com 7
Biehl, Bobb. Focusing by
Asking. BobbBiehl.com.
© 2020 by Marcia K. Washburn,
homeschooling mother of five
sons. To invite Marcia to speak for
your group, or for more of her
articles, books, or her free
newsletter, please visit MarciaWashburn.com.
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TEACHING
Last year, I had the
privilege to be
ordained as a pastor in
Christ's church.
Since then, I’ve had to repeatedly ask myself the
question, “Does my life set forth an example of love,
faith, and purity?” (1 Timothy 4:12) as I’ve sought
to lead in the church wisely. When it comes to leader-
ship, we all know how important it is that a pastor’s
life be reflective of what they say, and everyone
knows the bankruptcy and foolishness of the old
phrase “Do as I say, and not as I do.”
If this is true in the context of church leadership, it is
also true in the home. Dads, do you understand that
you may undo your own instruction to your children if
you contradict it by your example?
Richard Baxter’s classic work for church leaders, The
Reformed Pastor, makes this very point. Throughout
this book, Baxter would frequently rebuke ministers
who would preach one way and then live the oppo-
site. In one portion of this humbling, soul-searching
work, Baxter wrote:
“Take heed to yourselves, lest your example
contradict your doctrine .... This is the way
to make men think that the Word of God
is but an idle tale .... He that means as he
speaks, will surely do as he speaks. One
proud, surly, lordly word, one needless
contention, one covetous action, may cut the
throat of many a sermon, and blast the fruit
of all that you have been doing.”1
Dads, take Baxter’s words and apply them to your in-
struction in the home. Do you understand that when
you teach your children to speak kindly and gently to
one another, you may undo that very biblical instruc-
tion by your harsh and angry words toward your wife?
If you teach your children that they should confess
their sins to the Lord, but you never show them by
your example of confessing your sins to Him, is it any
surprise that they don’t take the Word of God seri-
ously? If you teach your children that the Gospel is
the power of God to salvation (Romans 1:16), but they
see no fruit of the Gospel’s power in your own life, is
it surprising that they think the Word of God is, in the
words of Baxter, “an idle tale?”
Obviously, every dad reading this article will know
that he falls short. We are sinners ... all of us. There-
fore, an essential example we are to set before our
children when we do fall short of our own teaching is
this: to repent.
Yes, your example really does matter. But your
children aren’t going to get a perfect father. What they
need is a humble, repentant father. They need a father
who cries out to Jesus and says, “Lord Jesus, have
mercy on me!” While we should set a pattern of godly
living before them, when we fail, let’s set one of the
most important patterns of all: the example of faith
and repentance. 
Footnotes · 1
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (Edinburgh:
Banner of Truth, 1974), 63.
Joshua Schwisow serves as
one of the pastors at
Reformation Church of
Elizabeth, Colorado (Reforma-
tionChurch.com). He is the
husband to his wife Jessica
and father to Jerusha, Charlotte, Norah, and Samuel.
He can be contacted at jschwisow@gmail.com.
BY JOSHUA SCHWISOW
Living Out
Our Own
DAD TO DAD

BY LAUREN STENGELE
Growing up on
forty acres in
southwestern Colorado,
my childhood was “wild
and free” before that was
considered a legitimate
homeschool style.
My family loved Jesus and was known for
hospitality. When missionaries came through
our local community church, we often hosted
them. Thus I spent many a Monday morning
sipping tea and chatting with people from places
like India, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. That’s
a type of homeschool socialization you don’t get
in public school!
I was raised by my mother, of Mexican-American
ancestory, who loved showcasing our heritage.
Spanish was her first language, but she lost it
when she started her own education in public
school. Although she wasn’t able to pass down
the language, she made sure we felt connected
to our heritage through music, food, and yearly
trips to California to spend time with our relatives
who were originally from Mexico.
When I chatted with people who spoke two languages,
I would wish I knew Spanish. I wished my grandpar-
ents hadn’t stopped speaking Spanish to my mom.
These experiences birthed in me a desire to live
bilingually, so I decided that I would revive the Span-
ish language in my own home.
Other than Christ being the primary answer to
all of life’s problems, if there is one other thing
homeschooling taught me, it’s that the answers to
practical problems are often found when we put into
action what we have learned. If I wanted to teach my
future children Spanish, I first needed to learn it my-
self. Being homeschooled afforded me the freedom to
start studying Spanish in middle school, as opposed
to waiting until high school when the public schools
typically offer foreign language.
Continuing my Spanish studies in college, I gradu-
ated with degrees in education and Spanish, with a
certificate to teach “English as a Second Language”.
Afterwards, I had the opportunity to travel the world,
teach English, and thoroughly enjoy life in my early 20s.
With my late 20s came marriage, kids, and the
beginning of a new adventure: homeschooling my
own children … in two languages! It turned out to
be much harder than I anticipated. Finding resources
in our minority language was a particular struggle. I
also didn’t know anyone else who was homeschooling
bilingually that could help me navigate what seemed
like unchartered territory.
What do homeschool families do when they can’t find
something? They create it! And so, Bilingual Together
was born as an online place where people can find
community, encouragement, and educational resourc-
es to stay the course (or begin it!) of raising bilingual
children while homeschooling in two languages.
I can clearly see God’s hand in my life — from Mon-
day morning tea with missionaries as a child, to poetry
tea time in Spanish with my three children. When we
live bilingually, what we are giving to our children
— what my parents gave to me — is a lavish gift for
which I am very thankful. 
Lauren Stengele is a non-native
Spanish speaker, language teacher,
and bilingual homeschooling mom.
She is passionate about providing
resources and encouraging families
to raise bilingual children. If you want to know
more about her journey, or how you can
incorporate a minority language into your
homeschool, you can find her online at
BilingualTogether.com.
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Homeschool parents
across the country share
with me their fears and
concerns: “What if I’m
not doing enough?”
“Will he get into college?” “What should she
know?” “What if he doesn’t like me when he
grows up?” “How do I homeschool and get
dinner on the table in the same day?” And many
more! As a group leader (and leader of group
leaders), I have found that most of the needs
they share typically fall into these four catego-
ries: information, equipping, importance, and
encouragement. Let’s consider how we can help
meet their needs by addressing these four areas
within our local groups.
They need to be informed. On a state and
local level, how do we provide information about
homeschooling in general, or about opportuni-
ties in our area? Here are a few methods to
disseminate information — maybe you can
think of more things your group does:
• Introductory meetings to explain the
basics of homeschooling in your state
• Kick-off meeting (for the new school year)
• Monthly informational meetings
• Newsletters and articles (print or digital/online)
• Social media pages and a web presence
They need to be equipped. This is a step beyond
informed — the focus is on providing tools to help
them succeed in their goals. Equipping could include:
• Coaching for harder to teach high school
subjects
• Consultations for struggling learners
• Educational opportunities/classes
• Field trips
• Monthly meetings with practical topics
• Providing Bible, Spelling Bee, or STEM
competitions
• Resource centers with books, seminars
• Sports activities
• Workshops/in-service training (occasionally at
parent group meetings)
Listen to your parents at meetings and during park
days — what are some of their concerns? What are
their fears about homeschooling? What can you offer
within your group to help them feel empowered to
stay their course?
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They need to be needed, to feel valued within
your local homeschool community. Some folks
will volunteer; others will respond only when asked,
but will be happy to help with:
• Activities for dads
• Book sale or seminar
• Hospitality ministry for a family in need —
cards or meals by individual families; larger
chores such as cleaning or lawn care as a group
• Involvement in a common cause — helping a
caring pregnancy center or political issue
• Resourcecenterforsharedbooks,curriculum,dvds
• Sports or co-op programs
• Volunteer/service projects
Finally, they need to be encouraged. I often tell new
homeschooling parents that it’s not their job to teach
their kids everything they need to know. It’s their job
to teach basic subjects such as the 3 R’s, equip them
with study skills to learn other subjects, then encour-
age them with opportunities to use and build on what
they know. Well, it works the same way for us as
leaders. It’s not my job as a group leader to do all the
equipping and encouraging. It’s my job to teach them
how to encourage one another. In our homeschool
group, we do this through:
FOUR NEEDS
BY VICKI BENTLEY
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• Brunch for special needs parents
• Mentoring group for new
homeschoolers
• Mini-retreats covering relevant
topics
• Moms Night Out
• Phone calls and snail-mail notes
(it’s all about the personal touch
— even if it’s just a postcard)
• Social media groups
What other avenues of encouragement
come naturally to your group? This
support doesn’t have to come from
just the leader, but could be a ministry
by members blessing each other as
they can throughout the year.
It’s all about relationship — about
building community. While inform-
ing and equipping can often happen
online and in remote internet groups,
homeschool moms’ inclusion and
encouragement needs are primarily
met best face-to-face, “in real life.”
What we are offering is personal
relationships. When they are involved
and encouraged, they feel important
and valued — they feel like they are
family — and people are loyal to
family. How can you encourage your
families to “do life” together? Here’s
an online article further detailing this
idea: everydayhomemaking.com/life-
changing-gift-friendship-2/ 
Vicki Bentley is a wife, mom,
great-grandma, and encourager.
She is the author of Home Educa-
tion 101: A Mentoring Program
for New Homeschoolers, as well
as many other homeschool and
homemaking resources (see
EverydayHomemaking.com). She
is also a support group leader,
national speaker, and HSLDA’s
Toddlers to Tweens Consultant
and Group Services Director
(HSLDA.org).
CHEC.org/leadership-retreat
HOMESCHOOL
GROUP
leaders
Learn more and register at
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March 27–28, 2020 • Glen Eyrie Retreat Center
Exclusively for homeschool
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Serving Christ. Creating Peace.
Upbuilding.
Come for a relaxing weekend filling up with those biblical
truths on the lovely Glen Eyrie grounds. Through speaker
sessions, round table discussions, and plenty of networking/
fellowship time, you’ll be equipped with biblically-based
skills that will help you thrive in your role as a homeschooling
parent and leader.
Mike Donnelly, HSLDA
Avoiding Legal Surprises: Strong groups are a bulwark for homeschooling freedom.
But some leaders don’t know what they don’t know. You can guard your group against legal
surprise. In this workshop, Mike will help you understand key issues that may impact your
group, including civil rights, child abuse prevention, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Dan Wetzel, One Foundation Counseling
Biblical Conflict Resolution: God’s Word calls believers to live at peace, so much as it is
possible with them. It is not surprising then, that the Bible contains clear instructions regarding
conflict resolution. The session will provide a brief introduction to four primary biblical
principles for peacemaking, and is based upon the principles found in Ken Sande’s landmark
book, The Peacemaker.
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JOURNEY
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Relax and enjoy
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hosted by author
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Join Dr. Carlton
McLeod for lunch as
he reveals a Manhood
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man
Designed for
children ages 6–12,
each program
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Teens and young
adults will be
challenged and
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designed workshops
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CHILDREN’S
ACTIVITIES
MOVIE
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NIGHT OUT
FATHER-SON
LUNCH
YOUTH
FEATURES
BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW
The Marks of Pseudo-Christian Cults
Escapism: Avoiding the Snares of
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Battle for Our Children
The Ultimate Proof of Creation
How Fighting for Freedom Over
There Preserves Freedom Here
10 Principles to Empower You and
Your Kids to Stand for Freedom
QA - Ask a Pediatrician
FAMILY DISCIPLESHIP
Reaching the Heart of Your Child
Leaving a Legacy: The Vision of the
Homeschool Dad and Husband
Tech from Toddlers to Teens
Make Jesus Great Again In
Everything
I'll Start Being a Good Mom Just as
Soon as I Finish Pulling My Hair Out
Attention Obsessive Compulsive
Perfectionist Control Freaks: Chill Out!
20 Things to Teach Your Children
Before They Leave Home
HOMESCHOOL HOW-TOS
Teach Your Children How to Think
With Mentoring
The Once-a-Year Plan: Taking the
Overwhelm Out of Homeschool Planning
Meal Planning/Recipe Swap
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Hold That Thought: Strategies for
Building Working Memory
How to Keep Toddlers Entertained and
Occupy the Teens at the Same Time
Top 10 Myths about Homeschooling Math
Building a Framework: Strategies for
High School Success
Training
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Encouragement
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His divine power has granted to us all things that
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A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when
he is fully trained will be like his teacher. (Luke 6:40 ESV)
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Your
Christian
Beliefs
ARE
NOT
WELCOMEBY CAROLYN MARTIN
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he Pew Forum’s latest survey
on the landscape of Christianity in the United
States reveals that the number of adults iden-
tifying themselves as Christians plummeted by
12% in the last decade.1
As the number of adults
not identifying with any type of religion increased
(up 17% in the last decade), it is no wonder that
religious liberty is under attack across this na-
tion. With Denver, Colorado ranking as the 32nd
most post-Christian city in the United States last
year — according to Barna2
— and Colorado
Springs is the base to hundreds of Christian
ministries, it is no wonder our state finds itself as
ground zero for the battle over religious liberty.
Though the US Supreme Court found that the
Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC)
expressed “hostility to religion”3
when they
prosecuted Jack Phillips and his Masterpiece
Cakeshop for not making a cake which violated
his beliefs, Mr. Phillips is currently being sued
in Denver District Court for continuing to follow
his conscience.4
Because the CCRC continues
to prosecute business owners for their religious
beliefs, Lorie Smith, a Christian entrepreneur and
the owner of 303 Creative5
, filed a preemptive
lawsuit to stop them from coming after her for
running her business in line with her beliefs.6
Jack and Lorie each refuse to separate their
beliefs from their life’s work and should be an
example to us all.
Recently, Pew Forum found that one in ten Protestant
Christian teens are homeschooled.7
While this is good
news, our enthusiasm should be tempered as we see
what is happening in New York. The private school
and homeschool laws in NY require they provide a
“substantially equivalent” education to public schools.8
Due to concerns brought by a local advocacy group
over the “minimal secular material” in some private
schools, the NY Department of Education created new
regulations to inspect and evaluate the education given
in all private schools.9
Until now, private schools had
broad autonomy determining the content of what they
taught. Christian schools are rightly concerned that NY
will force the teaching of topics that violate their con-
science. Homeschoolers in NY are concerned as well
because the wording in the homeschool law is identical
to the private school law under current scrutiny.
In Colorado, our private school and homeschool laws
require we provide a “sequential program of instruc-
tion.” It would only take a simple word change to put
us in the same situation as our fellow homeschoolers
in NY. Rumors abound that the homeschool law is
being looked at for revisions this year. Given the
attitudes of our bureaucrats, lawmakers, and judges
during this past year’s session — and even before
— we must make every effort to stop government
overreach into our families.
Erwin W. Lutzer in his book, When A Nation Forgets
God, clearly articulates where we are headed:
“When truth is rejected in the public sphere,
the state will either turn to some semblance of
natural law or more ominously, to lies. Secular
values will be imposed on society, and it will
be done in the name of ‘freedom.’”
Now is the time. The choice is clear: bondage or
liberty. Our aim should be to bring truth to bear on all
things. Join me in advocating for your fundamental,
God-given rights this legislative session, before it’s
too late! For more information on how you can
answer this call to action, go to: CHEC.org/
freedom/. 
Footnotes · 1
pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-
of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace. 2
barna.com/
research/post-christian-cities-2019. 3
supremecourt.gov/
opinions/17pdf/16-111_new2_22p3.pdf. 4
adflegal.org/detailspages/
press-release-details/masterpiece-cakeshop-owner-asks-court-
to-end-latest-harassment-over-his-beliefs. 5
303creative.com. 6
adflegal.org/detailspages/case-details/303-creative-v.-elenis. 7
pewforum.org/2019/10/03/for-a-lot-of-american-teens-religion-
is-a-regular-part-of-the-public-school-day. 8
city-journal.org/
new-york-substantially-equivalent-provision. 9
lohud.com/story/
news/local/rockland/2019/07/03/equivalency-education-regulations-
yeshivas/1584361001. All links accessed 11.27.19.
Carolyn Martin, CHEC Homeschool
Legislative Liaison, and her
husband, Todd, began
homeschooling their three children
in upstate New York before moving
to Colorado in 2004. Her passion is to see
homeschooling remain free from government
intrusion for future generations.
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When babies are born,
they communicate in cries to get their needs met.
We lovingly meet their needs and wait to hear their
first words. Sometimes, those words take longer
to hear or may come in a different form. My own
daughter has a global developmental delay. Even
though we know why she has a communication
disorder, waiting for her to be able to communicate
is frustrating to us, and I know it frustrates her as
well. Finding strategies to help your child with a
communication or language disorder helps lessen
their frustration, and yours.
Sign Language
We started using functional sign language
with my daughter for simple statements such
as “more,” “finished,” “work,” “all done,” and
“stop” then we moved on to colors, animals,
and everyday language. Giving my daughter
a way to communicate her needs helped her
to have a voice. We used the television show,
Signing Times. The songs and characters made
learning enjoyable, and it kept her attention.
Pictures and Schedules
To a child with language deficits which involve
speaking, receiving, and processing oral
communication, busy schedules or even everyday
life can be overwhelming. My daughter would be
to respond to what I say and time to put her words
together. Thus, when I ask my daughter a question, I
give her extra time to answer. Using verbal and visual
cues helps her organize her thoughts and her language.
I can see on my daughter’s face that she knows what
to say but needs help getting it out. If she still needs
assistance, giving her options or verbal cues help her to
produce her answer.
Having a communication disorder has no time frame
and it takes patience for everyone involved. Give lots
of praise and give your child grace, time, and love.
Using these strategies to give your child a voice and the
opportunity to work through the frustrations of learning
to communicate gives them more than just tools for
language. It speaks to them a language of love. 
This article is adapted from a post on
SpedHomeschool.com, where the
author, Dawn Spence, is a Teaching
Manager. She is a homeschooling
mother of three, and left her special
education teaching career to stay home and teach
her own children. She is a gifted instructor who
has the ability to bring out the teacher in everyone,
especially showing parents how to modify
curriculum to meet the specific learning needs of
their child.
overwhelmed, which would then lead to an emotional
meltdown. I had to learn that her frustration with the
difficulties of communicating and not understanding
our schedule, was compounded by our expectations
of needing her to respond quicker than she was able.
To minimize the meltdowns, she needed a better
understanding of the order to her day. We made picture
schedules of her day. We took pictures and laminated
them, posting these around the house. Her day in
pictures, and what was expected of her, became a tool
that gave her day meaning. I also took pictures of her
doctors, therapists, and places that we would visit less
frequently. If our schedule was different from a typical
day, such as a semi-annual doctor visit, seeing the
picture would help reduce her anxiety.
I found situations that included new things she
might not expect meant she would need more tools
of preparation. For example, I used hands-on tools
in anticipation of going to the dentist. She practiced
brushing off her “sugar bugs” which helped minimize
her anxiety regarding the dental appointment. The more
we talked and practiced for the visit, the more relaxed
and successful it became.
Giving Time
My daughter struggles with understanding what others
say to her as well as with expressing herself back
to them. I know that she needs me to give her time
BY DAWN SPENCE
STRUGGLING LEARNERS
3 Strategies for
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My cousin, Lori Jane, was in elementary
school when her teacher asked each student
to draw a picture of their mother.
After school, Lori ran home, excited to show her picture to her mother. My aunt
was very surprised to see a drawing of a clock as her image. Lori Jane explained,
“Mommy, I drew you as a clock because time is so important to you!”
We have all heard the drills of “redeeming the time,” “making every minute count,”
“don’t waste the opportunity,” that help us with utilizing our own time. But what about
how we use the time of others?
It is obvious that if a corporate executive is 15 minutes late for a meeting with 12 oth-
ers, over three hours of time is easily lost. But how about our time as homeschooling
moms? What happens when we stay on the phone past the time we scheduled our
school day to start? Or when we bump a prior commitment to our children for our
own convenience — how is this respecting their time?
Lillian Dickson wrote, “Life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish,
but you can only spend it once.”
Conversations and counsel are invaluable, but I challenge you, as much as possible,
to respect the time of your children as much as you respect the time of your doc-
tor. Keep your word as far as is possible, and they will learn to respect your time and
the time of others. 
Lorrie Langemann is a veteran homeschool mother of nine children, the youngest
of whom just graduated from college. She now teaches music lessons and invests
in the lives of younger homeschooling moms. She may be contacted via email at
lorrielangemann@gmail.com.
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find them on products, you can still clip and send them to
CHEC! (Every one is worth $0.10 to CHEC!) Make sure each
one has a visible product acronym and expiration date.
THE NEW BOX TOPS LABELS
Now, it’s going all digital. Brands will change from a clip-
able Box Top to a Box Tops label. Just download the Box
Tops app, create an account to link to “Christian Home
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Living in the computer age, many parents want
their kids to learn to write computer code. There are
several subscription services that cater to this includ-
ing Bitsbox (BitsBox.com) and Thimble (Thimble.
io). Bitsbox is geared toward elementary and middle
school kids, teaching them to write apps and modify
computer games. Thimble is for 13-year-olds and up
and has hands-on electronic projects such as build-
ing and coding a robot or weather station. Both of
these boxes come with online tutorials and support.
They can be used as an “elective” or as a supplement
to another computer science curriculum.
I loved my children’s reactions to these crates. It was
like Christmas morning each month when the crates
arrived. My 10-year-old son stated that part of the
appeal of these crates was not knowing what the
box contains until he opens it. It’s like receiving and
opening a present! Everything else was set aside and
the kids tore into the projects, working for hours until
they were completed.
The instructions are designed for kids to work on the
projects independently. There are tutorials for each
crate online if the child needs further help completing
the projects. Online video tutorials are also available
for additional projects a child can complete that go
along with the theme of the crates. After spending
The Kiwi crate is designed for early elementary, the
Tinker crate is for 9- to 16-year-olds, and the Eureka
crate is for ages 14 to 104! The crates have everything
needed to complete the projects — even markers,
screwdrivers, and glue. The Kiwi crates had multiple
projects each month and covered topics such as light,
the solar system, and whales. The Tinker box covered
similar topics on a deeper level with more compli-
cated projects. The Eureka box contained projects
without any curriculum accompanying them, but the
engineering involved in these projects was stunning.
My 14-year-old son made a working articulated desk
lamp, a really fun pinball machine, and functioning
headphones.
KiwiCo is just one of many subscription box compa-
nies. If you have avid Lego builders in your house,
boxes from Booster Brick (BoosterBricks.com) might
be right for you. Each month a box arrives with over
250 Lego bricks divided into a premier challenge,
minifig challenge, microbuild challenge, blindfold
challenge, and a “spotlight” piece. These 5 challenges
are woven together by a story booklet. These boxes
are geared towards 4- to 12-year-olds. Booster Brick
also sponsors contests for their subscribers and there
is an online community for young Lego enthusiasts.
Subscription
On a whim this
past summer,
I decided to try out a
subscription box service.
The commitment was
short, and it seemed like
a fun way to supplement
our curriculum during a
time of year when the
kids would rather be
playing than studying.
There are numerous subscription boxes to
choose from including Legos, computer
programming challenges, art projects, etc. I
went with KiwiCo which offers art or science
project boxes (which they call “crates”) and was
very pleased with the experiment. My kids love
getting their crates each month and they are
more than willing to work on “school” outside of
school hours when a KiwiCo crate has arrived.
We tried out three different levels of KiwiCo (Ki-
wiCo.com) through their line of science crates.
BOXESBY CINDY PUHEK
CURRICULUM REVIEW
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several hours working through the projects, I
asked my children to narrate to me what they had
been working on, and try to explain the scientific
principles behind the projects. Each Kiwi crate
is accompanied by a comic book, so the science
learning continued as I sat down with my 6-year-
old and read to her.
I never thought I would be a subscription box per-
son. I like to shop and pick out my own curriculum
and supplemental materials. But the boxes we tried
out were extremely well done, and unlike many of
the science kits I’ve purchased in the past, my kids
actually completed all the projects with enthusi-
asm. I’ve only mentioned a small fraction of the
educational subscription boxes that are available.
If you’re looking for something to augment your
learning and nurture your children’s curiosity, I rec-
ommend looking into subscription boxes and find
the one that’s right for you. Since you get to keep
all of the crate “goodies”, maybe your students will
come up with their own creative inventions beyond
the box’s specified projects.
Most of the companies allow people to subscribe
for one month to try out their service before invest-
ing in a longer commitment. This allows families to
make sure the content will be appropriate for their
children. After the amazing success of our summer
trial, I am now signed up for KiwiCo Crates for a
full year. 
Editor’s note: Bits Box will be an exhibitor at the
Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference June 25-
27, 2020. They will have a variety of their boxes with
hands-on activities if you want to experience what
their subscription service is all about.
Cindy Puhek resides in Colorado
Springs and has been married to
Peter for more than two decades.
They are well into their second
decade of homeschooling their
six children who range in age from toddler to
high schooler. Cindy holds a master's degree in
chemistry and has written dozens of articles to
encourage others in their homeschooling
journeys. You can visit her blog at
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30 years! My
shoulders sagged
when I read this
comment from a
friend, “You’ve been
involved with CHEC
for 3 decades!” The
mention of time,
or adult children’s
birth years, usually
reminds me of how
old I am.
As I continued to ponder my friend’s
comment, I was reminded (by God, I’m
sure) that with the passing of time comes
maturity and fruit. It was just that way
in 1994, I had a front-row seat to the launch of our first
website, the start of Introductory Seminars, the opening
of the CHEC Independent School, and the codifying of
CHEC’s vision for family discipleship. As Vendor Chair-
man, I now had the use of email correspondence and
electronic payments, and my family, with number six
added, included middle and high schoolers! The older
kids took on more challenging roles when volunteer-
ing with CHEC, including cleaning the office, working
at the conference in the Youth Volunteer program, and
helping me in the Exhibit Hall. (Shane, my oldest, and
his friend Scott Lundberg created what may have been
the world’s largest duct tape ball with tape they gathered
from taped-down electrical wires CHEC had set up
throughout the conference facility.)
I remember a 1996 brainstorming session that ended
with such lofty and impossible goals as developing a
donor program, hiring a marketing director, increasing
public policy involvement, hiring paid staff — includ-
ing a full-time Executive Director — and reaching not
just Colorado, but the world with the message of family
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with my work as a volunteer and then eventually as a
staff member of CHEC.
My first involvement with CHEC began in 1994 as the
Vendor Chairman at the annual homeschool conference.
At the time, I had four littles with one on the way! We
learned to homeschool in a variety of locations as my
husband and I measured the Exhibit Hall, went to com-
mittee meetings, and participated in lots of mail stuffing
parties (where one of my kids lost his favorite blanket).
I remember handwritten spreadsheets, snail mail ven-
dor applications, and payments made only by check.
Communication occurred via the telephone (landlines,
of course) and vendors had to mail their products to
the Vendor Committee to be approved. CHEC was a
fast-growing, fledgling homeschool organization back
then, and it was exciting to be part of a team that loved
the Lord and loved homeschooling as much as I did!
As the technological world changed, so did Christian
Home Educators of Colorado. Joining the CHEC Board
Through the YEARSBY BRENDA KELLY
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discipleship. Always the pessimist, these objectives
seemed daunting, but I was surrounded by excited
visionaries who firmly believed nothing was impos-
sible if God was for it.
And God was for it! When I became one of those
part-time paid staff, the Kelly family homeschool, once
conducted around the kitchen table or on the living
room couch, now included days around the CHEC
board table while four secretaries carried on the day-
to-day operations. (Caitlyn, my youngest, remembers
reading via flashlight during those long winter months
on our one-hour car ride back and forth to Parker.)
Over the years, I’ve watched three Executive Directors
— each with their own strengths — move CHEC and
CHEC’s vision forward. And under their leadership,
things have exploded!
Fast forward to today, and the tools necessary to
provide the information, resources, and support
homeschooling families need, now includes not only
a Marketing Director, but a marketing team; not only
a Homeschool Legislative Liaison, but a volunteer
homeschool freedom group; not only an office with
local paid staff, but a cadre of talented homeschool
moms and grads who live outside the Denver metro
area and even out-of-state, working remotely. Zoom
video meetings are now common and Google Docs,
QuickBooks online, a custom database, and virtual
terminals rule the day.
And what about that vision of reaching the world with
the message of family discipleship? Well, it’s also be-
come a reality with Homeschool Summits! So far, our
five virtual events have reached more than 100,000
families from over 100 countries, giving these families
the ability to listen to the best communicators, chal-
lenging them to live as God would have us.
Today, I sit in awe during CHEC board meetings, sur-
rounded by godly friends who have stayed the course
all these years, while those “unrealistic” ideas contin-
ue to flow. I have worn a lot of hats with CHEC, but the
best part of longevity is being able to look around the
table and realize I’ve now been
joined by the next generation
… each one full of that same
excitement and vision I started
with. What a privilege to be part
of God’s work long enough to
see the fruit.
For 30 years, CHEC has been at the forefront of the battle for home education and discipleship.
CHEC serves thousands of families every year through our events, Homeschool Update magazine,
the CHEC Independent School, and more. We receive phone calls throughout the week that give
us a chance to provide advice, encouragement, and an extra “boost” to homeschoolers when the
going is tough. CHEC depends on your generous donation to both continue and expand our
mission.
Go to CHEC.org/donate to donate to any of these funds:
• General Fund
• Colorado Homeschool Freedom Fund
• Event Scholarship Fund
• Sign Language Interpreting Fund
• Casterline Single Moms Fund
• Struggling Learners Fund
And those littles … well, they are now all adults,
active in their local church, homeschooling their own
children, serving as missionaries here and in Zambia,
and the youngest even working for CHEC, too. The
passing of time, with CHEC as a key component in
our family’s life, has brought maturity and fruit! Praise
God! 
Brenda Kelly is the Office Manager, Bookkeeper, and
wise counsel for CHEC and the Rocky Mountain
Homeschool Conference. She lives on a rural
property in eastern Colorado
with her husband, Les, her ag-
ing mother, at times her adult
children and grandbabies,
and always dogs of specialty
breeds with lots of puppies to
sell! You may contact her at
Brenda@CHEC.org.
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