According to statistics, homeschooling in the United States has increased 74% in the last eight years.
Why? We do not believe that it is because of a lack of faith in our public school systems as much as it is a growing desire to see MORE education and more focus on real issues that will eventually effect the home.
We have toured this country for many years teaching and presenting in thousands of schools and have addressed not only hundreds of thousands of school students but their very concerned parents. Disaster preparedness is always an issue that raises more questions than it provides answers. How do I teach it to my children without frightening them? How do I deal with the tough issues after a disaster? Do I allow my kids to see the news of current disasters? How do I involve them in our planning?
We have found that the world of disaster preparedness is a wide world of educational opportunity filled with science, history, social science, mathematics and literature. It is through this new blog that we intend to provide those tips, stories and insights that we have shared as we toured. Stay tuned here for programs, guides and curriculum additions as well.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Update for you all

Between playing catch up after last week's work in Haiti and the demands of preparing for the launch of our upcoming tours, the blog will be a little quiet this week. Please make sure you visit the website at www.chasing4life.org and follow us on Twitter and become a fan on our new FaceBook page! This will keep you in the loop and will help pass some time until we get to you here in the blog with an update about all the changes, new sponsors and new tour dates!

if you have a good homeschool-focused article, an experiment you'd like to share or maybe a lesson plan for everyone, we'd welcome the chance to publish it here for you! While we unpack, pack, fix, modify and plan, just send us what you have using the email contact on the website!