Homeschool College Admissions - Links

info I'm collecting and reading for one of the MN workshops...in no particular order and certainly not complete

Stanford on Homeschool Admissions
Learn in Freedom: Colleges that Admit Homeschoolers
Info from the College Board
Air Force Academy Admissions Guidelines
Redeemer Pacific College
Christendom College
Accreditation Issues - NAPCIS
Thomas Aquinas College
Ave Maria
Thomas More College
more from Thomas More

Special Needs:

http://www.professorsadvice.com/

Cursorily related...

http://stanthonypaduainstitute.org/default.htm

Isn't it sad...

that reading and learning are often considered important only for children? The ironic thing is that when parents are interested in learning, it is a huge benefit to their children's education.

One of the most frustrating things...

about offensive content in movies and television is that it has caused a lot of well-meaning people to assume that all movies and television that have no offensive content are good.

A little good news in Hollywood

With all the tabloids and popular magazines screaming at you in supermarket check-out lanes, you can't help but notice the latest news on who divorced whom, who's getting married the 5th time (or more) and other depressing things. So it was nice to open up this month's Reader's Digest and read that Jeff Bridges has been happily married to his wife for 28 years. Now THAT'S worth mentioning. :)

Minnesota Catholic Homeschool Conference

I'll be giving a couple of workshops here later this year.

My Godfather

We lost track of my godfather for many years and I have in fact, never met him. My parents knew him when my dad did engineering contract work for the Air Force for a year back in the 60s. He was all over the world when I was born so there was a proxy for my baptism. We tracked him down a few years back where he was the pastor of a parish in Massachusetts and I was able to speak with him on the phone (I remember talking to him on the phone just one other time - when I received my first communion), but I seem to have lost track of him again. I hope to meet him one day. I wrote this post mostly so I wouldn't lose the above link yet again.

Catholic Homeschool Companion

Here is the new cover art for the Catholic Homeschool Companion. I think it's supposed to start shipping in about two weeks. I'm really excited to get my hands on a copy, partly because I have an essay in there sharing thoughts and experiences on homeschooling highschoolers (based largely on my own experience as a homeschooled student), but also because it's filled with essays by lots of different people on homeschooling. I tend to enjoy writings of people sharing their wisdom and experience with education more than that of "the experts."

It's neat to see some familiar "faces" in the table of contents; a friend from my old San Diego homeschool group (hard to believe we left there almost eight years ago), one of our local homeschool Dads and lots of people that I've had the privledge of getting to know via the Internet over the years.

Mom says the funny thing this time

I brought Ria to the doctor's the other day to have stitches removed from her foot. When explaining to her doctor what had happened, I accidentally said "The hospital had her in stitches for 10 days." Doesn't sound too unpleasant.

Picky, Picky

Part of our kids' night-time prayer routine is an extensive Litany of the Saints, concluding with the kids' patron saints (done in pairs) followed by "Pray for Us" (or the Latin "Orate Pro Nobis" which they like to randomly interchange). The other night Terri was leading prayers and went through the Patron Saints. After she named Kate's two patron saints and everyone responded "Pray for Us", Kate started screaming "No!" in a very loud voice. This resulted in universal giggles from the other children who are, at this point, neither surprised nor shocked at her occasional outbursts. The laughs continued and eventually increased as Kate's face slowly changed from anger to a quirky smile. "They already did me," she very sweetly explained.

"Gus" starts a Geography Blog

He and I are working on this project together. We're trying to talk "Ria", our history buff, into joining us, as a lot of historical geography is included on things like the Geography Bee (and "Ria", by the way, did very well on the Geography Bee herself - she had the highest score going into the final round).