Christine Field
Author and Speaker
Catching the Foxes that Ruin the Vineyard: What are the small and large distractions that detract from your work in your home? Presents strategies for dealing with the common foxes of every day home life, both large and small, such as time crunchers and energy wasters.
The Home Schooling Marriage: Is homeschooling actually GOOD for your marriage? Mark and I think so. Does homeschooling strengthen not just families but marriages as well? How to use the shared experience of home education to enrich the bond between husband and wife.
Home Schooling the Challenging Child: Does home schooling seem too hard? This workshop examines these five areas of frustration: attention issues, personality clashes, learning style differences, discipline issues and learning disabilities, and presents suggestions and solutions for meeting the challenge.
Help for the Harried Home Schooler: Do you feel like Mom Multiplied? Balance is the key to home school sanity. This workshop gives strategies for keeping perspective on the many demands on our time and presents crucial information on how to effectively manage our personal resources.
Life Skills For Kids - Equipping Your Child For the Real World: Before launching your child into college or other real world situations, what life skills should they possess? Getting along in the world consists of more that the ability to operate Play Station. What skills does your child need for independent living and how can those skills be taught in the years at home?
In Over Your Head? What To Do When Mothering Is A Mess. Is your stress meter off the scale? Kids driving you crazy? Feel like you have more than you can manage? Take a deep breath, fix a cup of tea and listen to ways to make your life less complicated, thereby making it less stressful.
Virginia Vagt
Writer and Speaker
Fearless High School: Maximizing the home-directed high school years. Finding everything your student needs including a competitive edge and a joyfully life. How home-directed high school and successful college application process go together. How families with kids in school can benefit from adding home-directed strategies
Books We’ve Loved: Including Literature in Family Life
Holding on to Literature . . . Even in the Electronic Age: Helping Our Children Read, Hear, See, and Do Literature
Teaching Children to Write Well! So Hard, So Easy, So Important
Staying Close, While Letting Go! How to Love Them while Launching Them
The Pace of Learning: Encourage learning without discouraging
What Makes a Great Mom? Why Great Moms Aren’t Perfect Moms
We look forward to meeting you! To schedule a speaker or workshop for your retreat, conference, or group please write to us at: info @ homefieldadvantage . org