E•vent Library

Wouldn't it be nice to have some hands-on parenting advice so that life could run a little easier? Would you like to more easily create a peaceful home and instill respect in family relationships? Join author and speaker Erin Brown Conroy, an experienced mom of 13 children by birth, marriage, and adoption, and get real-life tips for easier parenting. Learn how to help your child to listen to you the first time and respond with the right heart attitude. Discover the kind of intelligence that is more important than an IQ score, and find out how to improve your family’s communication skills. Sign up for this @home e-vent and prepare to receive dozens of simple, sensible “helps” that can make family life run more smoothly and more enjoyably on a day-to-day basis!

Don’t be intimidated by homeschool legal issues—learn how to successfully navigate Rhode Island’s policies and statutes so that you can be confident in your home education! In this exclusive @home e-vent, HSLDA Staff Attorney Scott Woodruff addresses the needs and questions of Rhode Island homeschooling families and clarifies specific considerations and regulations that you need to be aware of. Bring your questions and find the answers in this e-vent about home education in the Ocean State.

Do you have a daughter who battles your decisions? Or a son who doesn’t seem to listen when you’re talking? Join John Rosemond—father, grandfather, nationally syndicated columnist, best-selling author, and parenting expert—to discover how to increase the parent-love and leadership in your home. Humorous and thought-provoking, John explores discipline, authority, and parent-child relationships in the context of the two “L-words” that your children need from you. Learn how love and leadership can help define your purpose as a parent! Bring your own family’s common conflict scenarios for the Q&A session and learn how to foster a relationship with your children that will bring peace to your home and honor to God.

Johnny is a constant motion machine. Tom cries in frustration over minor matters. Susie forgets what she has just learned. These behaviors leave you drained and with little to show for your efforts. Are you at your wits’ end about how to help a child who seems lazy and unmotivated? “He’s so smart, but it takes him forever to complete his work!” You’ve tried all the focusing “tricks” from the books you’ve read, but you still use much of your teaching day coaxing the minimum required work out of this child.

This @home e-vent will present a totally different approach to children with attention and focus issues. Find out how to identify the cause of the behavior and target your strategies. Begin to detect the physical clues that your child is presenting and explore the physical causes of attention/behavior issues. Is it really a character issue, or could something else be going on? Let Dianne, a certified nutritionist, help you explore simple ways to help your child at home.

Do you have questions about family relationships? How do you get to the heart of the issues that your children face? Is there sound biblical advice for family issues in the 21st century?

Bring your questions and discover the answers in this special @home e-vent. Lou Priolo—father, speaker, biblical counselor, and author of several books including The Heart of Anger, The Complete Husband, Teach Them Diligently, Getting a Grip, and Pleasing People—will be joining us for an e-vent focused entirely on answering your questions! Families all over the world have benefited from Lou’s wisdom, experience, and advice, and now it’s your turn.

Join Lou as he helps you make sense of the family relationships that surround you and create a household that is pleasing to God.

To ask your question ahead of time and hear the answer on the e-vent, send an email to athome@hslda.org containing your clear, concise question. Be sure to include “Lou Priolo Q&A” in the subject line.

Note: Emails must be received by midnight PST on October 13. Questions will be selected for the e-vent based on a number of factors including the nature of the problem, the seriousness of the problem, and the length of the question, with shorter questions being given priority. Also, if a similar question has already been included in the event, your question may not be separately addressed.

Do you want your children to become excellent readers? Are you looking for ways to help your children develop a lifelong love of reading along with proficiency in this skill?

Find out how in this @home e-vent! Be encouraged as you talk with MaryAnn about easy ways to help your children become confident, competent readers. You’ll discover that there’s no mystery or monotony in teaching reading and that you can incorporate a love for reading into your household. MaryAnn guarantees that you will leave inspired, with practical strategies for making this your best homeschooling year yet!

Many children (and some adults) have trouble learning to spell, but the difficulty may not be with the student so much as the method of presentation. How do you help your children embrace this vital skill instead of running away from it? In this @home e-vent, Andrew Pudewa will address the most efficient way to store spelling information in the brain, while sharing specific steps and tips to succeed in teaching spelling to your students. Leave this e-vent with a greater insight into the nature of spelling and neurological function and be well-equipped to meet the needs of all your children, not just the “naturally” good spellers.

Are you concerned with the future of your country? Do you want to instill a love of country and a passion for involvement in your children? Join Joel Grewe, Deputy Director of Generation Joshua, for this special @home e-vent on how young people can change the future of America. Joel will share details on the impact youth can have this year in crucial races around the country. Through the Generation Joshua Student Action Teams, you and your students can be personally involved in the exciting campaign process. If you have or know teenagers who want a role now in our country’s future, you won’t want to miss this!

Are you a homeschooling parent or teacher in Connecticut? Whether you’re new to home education or a seasoned veteran—this @home e-vent will address all your questions! Come join HSLDA Senior Counsel Dewitt (Dee) Black as he explains the options available to parents for conducting home education in The Constitution State. He will also discuss the legal problems most often encountered between families and public school officials and show you how to avoid them. Bring your questions and register today!

Are you a veteran homeschooler, puzzled by your child’s struggle with learning? Or, have you identified your child as a struggling learner and are wondering if homeschooling is the best choice? No matter what your situation is, this e-vent will provide the encouragement and advice that you need. Faith Berens, one of HSLDA’s special needs coordinators, will help you identify if your child is a struggling learner and will share some tips for getting started—or continuing—on this journey. She will also describe the steps you can take to protect your homeschool legally. Hundreds of parents who homeschool their struggling learners testify that you, too, can do it. Join us for this e-vent to find out how!

Do you want your children to learn strong speaking skills? How about logic or research skills? Do you want to prepare them to defend their faith? Come and hear about the activity that teaches all of these skills and more!

Our panel of homeschooling parents from around the country will share why they chose speech and debate as an activity for their children, the benefits that they have seen in their children’s lives, how they make it work in their household, and more! You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and find out the details of getting involved. Speech and debate is a multi-faceted opportunity for homeschooling families—don’t miss this chance to learn more about it!

No other language in the world's history affects English as much as Latin. Latin reveals the secrets of many of our more difficult English spellings and meanings. It is the mother language of our most common spoken languages and provides a key to the vocabulary of the sciences, medicine, law, literature, and history. Latin isn’t a subject that needs to be put on the shelf until the children are older. Join us to discover how you can learn this important language along with your 5th–12th-grade students and teach them their advanced English grammar at the same time! This e-vent will unlock the world of Latin and equip you to teach this foundational subject to your children.

Do you want to help your family address selfishness, pride, and disobedience? Are you ready to discover and embrace the principles of thinking biblically? Find out how with this session!

Martha Peace, a wife, mother, speaker, and author, shares 10 biblical principles of how to think biblically in this exclusive @home e-vent. Using Scripture and practical illustrations, Martha explains how to apply the 10 principles to the attitudes of humility, obedience, and gratitude. Determine to help your family renew their minds, and log on to this e-vent for the guidelines!

To receive the handout that goes along with this e-vent click here

Do you have children just starting kindergarten or 1st grade at home? Or a younger child ready for pre-reading and other early-learner skills? This special discount package of seven e-vents is just for you! We have included e-vents on learning styles, helping children reach their potential, and teaching distractible children—but we’ve also covered the basics of spelling, reading, math, history, and writing. Our members receive 27% off of the already discounted member pricing and non-members receive 21% off regular e-vent prices!

As teachers, homeschool parents, and authors, these speakers have been where you are and are experts in their fields. Whether you have one young child or your house is full of them, our “Homeschooling Your Younger Child” discount package will increase your confidence to homeschool from the very beginning!

Please note that if a live e-vent has already passed, your purchase will gain you access to the recorded archive of that e-vent.

Attention, all HSLDA members in Vermont—we have a members-only e-vent just for you! Join HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly for an informative webinar focusing on homeschooling in your state. During the e-vent, Mike will share helpful information that you need to know in order to set up your home education program and will answer your specific questions. Don’t miss this chance to gain legal insights and ask your questions regarding homeschooling in the Green Mountain State!

HSLDA’s attorney for New York State, Thomas J. Schmidt, offers helpful information, advice, and guidelines to parents seeking to homeschool their children in the Empire State. In this straight-shooting webinar, he will address how to submit formal documents to uphold the state’s educational regulations, which subjects must be covered in each grade level, and how to navigate annual assessments and standardized tests. You’ll learn all you need to be informed and equipped for your New York-style home education.

In an age and culture of “pop-psychology”, technology, and text-messaging, do you find your children’s language is undergoing a transformation that has become increasingly world-centered? What are they saying with their words, voice inflection, and body language? Do you wish you could find practical ways to help them become more Christ-centered in their communication?

Join Lou Priolo for “A Crash Course on Biblical Communication” to learn how God has put believers in the “communication business” of testifying to His mercy and grace in our lives and how our speech can be either a powerful witness or a hindrance to the furtherance of the gospel. God is intimately concerned about how His people communicate, not only with each other, but also with unbelievers. Discover what He says in Scripture about communication and learn how to apply insightful biblical examples and instruction in a life-changing way in your family.

The gift of a fresh, shiny apple still represents respect and gratitude towards a teacher. Why should it be any different for the homeschool mom? After all, it’s the homeschool mom who typically carries the lion’s share of the homeschool workload. Teaching, cooking, cleaning, running errands…this can be a recipe for burnout. Dads! You can be a large part of the solution to burnout. Join Davis Carmen to learn how to help your wife avoid shouldering 100% of the homeschool responsibility. Your wife needs to hear “thank you” in many different ways and know for sure that you are engaged in the activities of your household. Prepare to be energized and leave with real and practical ideas for supporting your wife in the homeschool journey.

In this informative webinar, HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff addresses the needs and questions of homeschooling families in the state of Illinois. Don’t be intimidated by legal issues—learn how to successfully navigate relevant state policies and statutes so that you can be confident in your home education program! Scott clarifies specific considerations for homeschoolers and takes time to answer your particular questions regarding home education in the Prairie State.

“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” How do you keep your children from aiming at nothing and instead help them set tangible, attainable, personal goals?

Drawing on his experience as the homeschooling father of seven, as a motivational speaker, and as a business manager, Alan Hudson answers this question as he shares strategies, principles, and advice to help you encourage your kids to live intentionally at any age. Whether you want to help your elementary student to get through her multiplication problems or your teen to raise money for an upcoming mission trip, the principles and practical tips in this @home e-vent will give you what you need to help your kids turn their dreams into actionable goals, accomplish those goals, and reach their God-given potential.