Jean Golden-Tevald, D.O., FCP, CFCMC gives her talk entitled: "Accepting God's Call with Grace". Her life includes medical school, private practice and missionary work, marriage, children, adoption and homeschooling. Her sister, a local homeschooler, introduced us and I knew her story needed to be told.

Dr. William Edmund Fahey, new President of Thomas More College, NH presents a hardhitting, informative and enjoyable talk: "Family Life and the love of Learning" He is a homeschool father of 4 during the talk (5 now!) and was a joy!

"Some serious grenades were launched at us: 1- Homeschooling is hard and stressful, especcially on the mothers because it is not natural. We are political creatures (in the Socratic sense), and not all have the vocation of teacher. The fact that we had an empty … [More]

Introduced by Kathleen O'Keefe is Cynthia Montanaro, whose homeschool career was cut short by the sudden death of their 15 year old son. Tim had been adopted as an infant and she has written about him in her new book we hope will be published soon as "Diary of a Country Mom." . Cindy is a lifelong Catholic, is a mother and a grandmother, retired after a 25 year homeschooling career.

An excerpt is available in The Traditionalist, a quarterly magazine Summer 2009 issue
R. McCaffrey, Publisher … [More]

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