Normal has been something I have worked to avoid since I can remember. It seemed so boring, so average, so predictable, so flat. No, normal wasn’t for me. I have seen normal. Normal goes through the motions. Normal is dedicated to maintaining the status quo. Normal doesn’t lead, it doesn’t change, it doesn’t dream, it […]
I remember the first day of our homeschool adventure. I had purchased a set of Kindergarten books for our daughter, set them up on the shelf when they arrived, and did everything I could imagine to build up the anticipation of our “first day of school.” When that day finally arrived, Rebecca was dressed in […]
One of the most important things we can teach our children is how to discern when God is speaking to them but we can’t teach them if we ourselves don’t know when He is speaking to us. We sometimes worry so much about our homeschooled children having gaps in their education or are we preparing […]
Every homeschool parent is terrified of that unexpected knock on the door from Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) because we have all heard stories about children being taken from a home for homeschooling or for housing “unsocialized homeschoolers.” Think it is unlikely that a state worker would investigate a report of “unsocialized homeschoolers” in […]
There I was. A thirty-five year- old mother of two, set to go to the NM State Capitol the next day, wailing to my mother like a little girl. “I don’t know where to go!” “What do I wear?” “What if I say the wrong thing?” “What do I dooooooooo?!” (Can’t you just hear the […]
As with most things in life the answer to this question is not a simple “yes” or “no.” There are many things to consider: NM law, the rules of the Lottery Scholarship, private institutions for education, and employers who all have their own rules. But before we discuss all of that, let’s address that we […]
Dear members and friends, Earlier this fall HSLDA learned from the Christian Association of Parent Educators (CAPE) and a couple home school families that the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) had drastically changed the home school form on their website that can be mailed in. The PED also sent us a letter stating that […]
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Christian Association of Parent Educators – New Mexico P.O. Box 1506 Moriarty, NM 87035 Voice mail (505) 898-8548 Email info@cape-nm.org Website www.cape-nm.org July 5, 2016 Dear Friends of CAPE, We need your help. Our income was down and expenses were up, resulting in a shortfall of over $17,000 last fiscal year. As a non-profit organization, […]