Name Catholic Homeschool Companion Author Sel. & Ed. by Maureen Wittmann & Rachel Mackson Brief Description Softcover, 512 Pgs. Price $25.00 Extended Description Here's your one-stop resource for information, insight, and inspiration about every aspect of educating your children at home --- written by those who understand it best: homeschooling parents themselves! Would you like to teach science or phonics better? Introduce your child to Latin, piano, or great works of art? Try new classroom approaches that other parents find effective? In these pages, youll find helpful essays from more than forty veteran homeschooling parents to help you do all this and more. You'll also find wise advice and practical tips to make you a better teacher and your homeschool more productive and enjoyable. Of course, homeschooling involves more than academics. That's why The Catholic Homeschool Companion includes essays to help you foster your children's moral and spiritual development, involve time-challenged dads, teach kids with special needs or in special circumstances, and handle other common problems homeschoolers face. Are you frustrated trying to fulfill state academic standards or diocesan requirements for sacramental preparation? No problem! Here's shrewd advice from parents who've fought those battles already. There's also humor to lighten your heart when the daily grind gets you down, and, for those really bad times when you wonder whether homeschooling is even worth it, The Catholic Homeschool Companion brings you heartening testimony from teenagers and young adults who tell how grateful they are that their parents taught them at home. Information, insight, and inspiration: it's all right here in The Catholic Homeschool Companion, the must-own resource for new and experienced homeschoolers alike.