Just like you, we’re real moms!
From the first minute of being a mom our children make our hearts beat! Our kids bring us our greatest joys, our sweetest times, and our biggest challenges.
Yet . . . our rush-around way of life can squeeze the joy out of our daily parent-child time.
“Getting it all done” can leave us feeling a void. Energy, joy, and sweet times can slip away. How do we build them back up?
We believe that even amid the tough stuff it’s possible for parents to find “fresh joy.”
No matter what happened yesterday, we’ve seen that parent joy and family joy is possible, and findable, today. We offer you that hope.
We call it the Home Field Advantage. The Home Field Advantage is seeing how we as parents can bring joy to our families,even in real life. Our site shares help for homeschooling parents, and for parents whose children are in public and other private schools.
We’ve created this site to provide hope and encouragement to you as a parent. We offer you resources to help you as you love and teach your children. Maybe here you can share what’s helped you find parent joy, in your life? 
We’ve got mom “creds” and other details to tell you who we are:
Christine M. Field, a former trial lawyer, homeschool mom of four, and
author of seven books, shares her life as a mom, and as a homeschool mom, with deep personal warmth. In her books and as a conference speaker she brings down-to-earth help and come-alongside-you hope to harried parents. Christine created the Home Field Advantage as a refuge – a place where parents can gain inspiration and be assured of their value to their kids. While it feels to Christine and her husband Mark that they started to teach their own kids only yesterday, they’ve now been homeschooling for eighteen years. Her books address topics of homeschooling, mothering, parenting and teaching special needs children, and life skills for kids. Her articles have appeared in Focus on the Family Magazine, many other magazines and websites, and she serves as a correspondent and Resource Room columnist for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. As a consulting attorney for two legal ministries: the Christian Law Association’s Homeschool Legal Advantage and Administer Justice, Christine’s heart for parents serves many families from all walks of life.
Christine M. Field’s books include:
Homeschooling 101: The Essential Handbook (B&H Publishing Group, 2007)
Homeschooling The Challenging Child: A Practical Guide (B&H Publishing, 2005)
Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide for Balancing Your Child’s Education with the Rest of Your Life (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, 2002)
Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, 2000)
A Field Guide to Homeschooling (Fleming H. Revell Publishing, 1998)
Should You Adopt? (Fleming H. Revell Publishing, 1997)
Seasonal Savors: Celebrating & Savoring the Simple Joys of Family Life (co-authored by Christine Field and Virginia Vagt, Home Field Advantage Resources, 2009) offers parents and grandparents an accessible resource for simple, easy, no-cost ways to spend time with our children.
Virginia Vagt homeschooled K-12 and shares humor and hope with others. One of her struggles as a mom, and in life, is her
own ADD and her own reading disability. Her encouragement columns offer “help for our furrowed-brow” and “solutions for sighing” – common afflictions for most moms! With a warm, informative, and empowering style she writes and speaks on homeschooling for high school, help for mom worries, and do-able ways to bring literature to family life. How does a person with a reading disability love literature? There are ways! These ways lead to a decade of teaching literature, writing, drama, and journalism classes in homeschool co-ops, and directing children’s plays which inform many of her articles. Just as she’s doneVirginia helps us grab hold of the classics in accessible amounts, for ourselves our kids. Before becoming a mom Virginia served as Director of Corporate Research at CTI (Christianity Today, Inc.) Her articles have appeared in Christianity Today, Inc. publications, Moody Magazine, and other magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and websites. In the past few years she and Christine Field have worked on several writing projects together and they offer you this site.
Virginia’s articles include: Fearless High School, What’s So Great about the Classics, Books We’ve Loved, The Sunny, Grassy Slow-Lane Of Homeschooling, Twenty Questions, and Staying Close While Letting Go. With Christine Field she co-authored Seasonal Savors: Celebrating & Savoring the Simple Joys of Family Life, in 2009.
