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SPECIAL OFFER from Home Educating Family Magazine – Convention SponsorWednesday, February 17th, 2010As we continue to work diligently…trying to provide you with an incredible Homeschool Convention while also keeping things extremely affordable…we have been blessed to have a number of convention “sponsors” that have come alongside and helped us spread the word about the MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. One of those great sponsors is the HOME EDUCATING FAMILY MAGAZINE – along with the “Well-Planned Day” planner that they publish. We invite you to take a look at their magazine (It’s one of our favorites!) as well as their “Well-Planned Day” Homeschool Planner. You’ll find the details by clicking here: http://www.wellplannedday.com/eblasts/011410ThreePlanners.html Fantastic Savings from Answers in Genesis & the Creation MuseumTuesday, February 16th, 2010We love the incredible work being done by our friends at Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum! If you’ve not yet had the chance to visit the Creation Museum, you are missing out on an incredible experience. This 70,000 square foot facility is really state-of-the-art, and it truly brings the pages of the Bible to life! As we are such fans of the work of Answers in Genesis, you might imagine our enthusiasm when they approached us with an SPECIAL PACKAGE OFFER for our convention attendees that reflects a savings of 75%!! And so, we’re quite happy not only to provide you with this information, but to also recommend it sincerely. FREE DVD – Amazing Grace Movie (Michael Flaherty/Walden Media)Thursday, February 11th, 2010Micheal Flaherty is the co-founder and president of Walden Media. A graduate of Tufts University, his innovative curricula have captured nationwide attention from publications like the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe. He has also been published in National Review, the Boston Business Journal and the American Spectator. Walden Media specializes in entertainment for the whole family. Past award-winning films include: the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island” and “Charlotte’s Web.” Upcoming films include “Tooth Fairy” starring Dwayne Johnson and “Ramona & Beezus” based on the best-selling book series by Beverly Cleary and starring Selena Gomez, and the latest installment in “Narnia” franchise: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In an incredible gesture of support and affection for homeschoolers, each family attending Michael’s “Reviving Literary Reading” presentation at this year’s convention will receive a FREE DVD copy of the award-winning AMAZING GRACE movie. Mr. Flaherty lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children Michael Clay Thompson to present at MidWest Homeschool ConventionThursday, February 11th, 2010In our continuing efforts to provide the very best in equipping and educational resources for homeschooling families, we are pleased to announce that Michael Clay Thompson will be presenting at the 2010 MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. MICHAEL CLAY THOMPSON is the author of thirty books of language arts for gifted children, including The Word Within the Word series, Caesar’s English, The Magic Lens series, a series of six books about poetics, and other texts designed to provide the most challenging and appropriate language arts texts for high ability learners. Michael’s books are available from Royal Fireworks Press, and we’re pleased to also announce that Royal Fireworks Press is an Exhibitor at this year’s convention! At this year’s convention, on Thursday evening, Dr. Tom Kemnitz of Royal Fireworks Press will present an introductory session on using the MCT curriculum. MICHAEL CLAY THOMPSON will then be presenting two (2) times on Friday and two (2) times on Saturday. The Friday sessions will be GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY. The Saturday sessions will be POETICS and WRITING. The exact times and locations for these sessions will be on the final schedule of Speakers, Topics & Times that will be posted on our website. What homeschoolers say about Michael Clay Thompson …the books encourage depth, sensitivity, and reflection …my favorite resources I have never been so excited to start a curriculum…
I think what makes this a gifted curriculum, and not merely a speeded-up curriculum, is not just more stuff at a faster pace-the books encourage depth, sensitivity, and reflection as well. - – Shaun Strummer, PhD English, editor, and homeschooling parent Dr. Larry Schweikart speaking again this year!Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Dr. Larry Schweikart was a SMASH HIT when he spoke at last year’s convention, and we are honored that he is speaking again this year! (As of this writing, “A Patriot’s History of the United States” is the #1 selling book at Amazon.com) Larry Schweikart was born in Arizona, went to Arizona State University, got terrible grades, and upon graduation promptly went on the road as a drummer in a rock band. His group became semi-famous, opening for “Steppenwolf,” the “James Gang,” and “Mother’s Finest,” and drew the attention of Billboard Magazine. After a few years, however, Schweikart tired of the road and wanted a more intellectual pursuit. After a single U.S. history course during a stint in summer school, he decided he wanted to be a professor. Graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1984, Schweikart had already written two books and several academic articles as a graduate student. After a year in the University of Wisconsin system, he took a position at the University of Dayton, where he teaches to the present. Over the years, Schweikart has written nearly 30 books, dozens of articles and book reviews, and became an authority in antebellum banking and finance. In the 1990s, he wrote his own history of American business, The Entrepreneurial Adventure, then, with Michael Allen, began work on a larger project, a history of the United States. Published in 2004 as A Patriot’s History of the United States, this book became a best-seller and attracted the attention of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who interviewed Schweikart for his newsletter in March 2004. Now in multiple editions and a fourth printing, Patriot’s History continues to be “the” alternative history for parents disgusted with the dominant liberal-left textbooks. In 2006, Schweikart followed up with the controversial America’s Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars. Featured on BOOK TV and numerous television and radio shows, Schweikart was invited by the President of the United States to the Oval Office for an extended discussion of military history in August 2006. Now, with his new book, 48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School) Schweikart is back in the culture wars. He has appeared on the “700 Club”, “Fox and Friends”, Fox News, Book TV, and dozens of national and local radio shows, including Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, and many others. A novelist who has written a 9/11 thriller, September Day, and a World War II counterfactual military drama, Halsey’s Bluff, Schweikart brings history to life in a variety of venues. WOW!! Incredible Homeschool SEMINAR & WORKSHOP Sessions!Wednesday, January 27th, 2010The 2010 MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati features a HUGE Exhibit Hall along with an unparalleled array of Homeschooling-related SEMINAR and WORKSHOP sessions. This large number and wide-array of sessions is by design, and is to allow attendees to tailor their homeschool convention experience in whatever way that will be most beneficial to their own family. In short, whether you are brand-new to homeschooling or are a veteran homeschooler, you will find relevant information, instruction and encouragement to be readily available at the MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. You can review the TOPICS and DESCRIPTIONS for this year’s convention by clicking here. Please help us spread-the-word about this extremely affordable convention by telling all of your homeschooling friends, and by becoming a FAN on our FACEBOOK page. Thanks! Homeschool Legal Advantage Gift ($65 Value) When You Attend the MidWest Homeschool Convention in CincinnatiTuesday, December 1st, 2009The MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati is honored to have Homeschool Legal Advantage (HLA) as our main sponsor for the April 8-10, 2010 convention. When you attend this year’s convention, your family receives a complimentary first-year HLA membership – which also includes a free Last Will and Testament for both Mom & Dad! Homeschool Legal Advantage (HLA) is a ministry of legal helps to homeschoolers throughout the United States, and is an outreach of the Christian Law Association (CLA). The CLA has faithfully served churches and families since 1969, and has successfully defended over 8,000 educational freedom related cases. The HLA team includes a large group of full-time attorneys and an additional 200+ affiliated attorneys throughout the United States. HLA stands ready to educate and empower Homeschoolers so that they can respond kindly and confidently to local officials when homeschooling questions arise. And, when direct attorney involvement or even official legal representation is required to defend the right to homeschool, members of Homeschool Legal Advantage can rest assured that assistance from an experienced HLA attorney is only a phone call away! The HLA website provides an overview of Membership Benefits and answers to many Frequently Asked Questions which clearly articulate the unique philosophy and value that constitute the Homeschool Legal Advantage. Don’t Miss This Year’s Convention! Remember, the extremely affordable MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati includes over 200 exhibitors…250+ Seminar & Workshop Sessions…an incredible Speaker Roster…a outstanding Worldview Teen Track…an optional Children’s Program…comedian Tim Hawkins performing on Friday evening…and a FREE first-year membership in Homeschool Legal Advantage. Outstanding Worldview Teen TrackTuesday, December 1st, 2009This year’s MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati (April 8-10, 2010) features a wide array of relevant, information-packed Seminar & Workshop sessions that are led by an unparalleled group of speakers! This provides attendees the ability to tailor their convention experience – choosing what is most relevant and helpful for their own family…whether you are a veteran homeschooler, or are just beginning…and whether you have younger children or teenagers – or both! Of this year’s 250+ Seminar & Workshop sessions, sixteen (16) of them comprise an outstanding Worldview Teen Track that is being held in an approximately 1600-seat ballroom – - complete with large screen, power point presentations and dynamic speakers that will teach, encourage and inspire your teens! The Worldview Teen Track is being led by John Stonestreet of Summit Ministries and Dr. Jeff Meyers of Passing the Baton. However, there will be a few individual sessions led by Chuck Edwards of Summit Ministries, Attorney David Gibbs of Homeschool Legal Advantage and Woody Robertson of College Plus. It should be noted that the above speakers will also be leading separate Seminar and Workshop Sessions that are geared specifically for parents, and not part of the Worldview Teen Track. You will find more information on all of these sessions when we get the complete schedule – along with Topics & Descriptions – posted in January. WORLDVIEW TEEN TRACK SCHEDULE These sixteen (16) sessions begin on Thursday evening and continue throughout the entire convention – ending at 6PM on Saturday. Please see SESSION TOPICS and DESCRIPTIONS below… COST There is no additional charge for your teenagers to participate in these sessions. It is included in your Family Registration. SEATING Seating is first come, first seated. And, these sessions are being held in the Duke Energy Center JUNIOR BALLROOM – with seating for 1600+. SESSION TOPICS and DESCRIPTIONS A complete schedule – including Session Topics and Descriptions – will be posted in January, 2010. In the meantime, here are some of the planned topics.
Thousands of Homeschooling Families will be Attending the MidWest Homeschool Convention in CincinnatiMonday, November 30th, 2009CINCINNATI, Nov. 30 /Christian Newswire/ — Thousands of homeschooling families from about 22 states will soon converge on the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio for an incredible time of fun, fellowship, instruction and encouragement at the MidWest Homeschool Convention. (www.CincinnatiHomeschoolConvention.com) This convention features over 200 of the very best Homeschool curriculum exhibitors in the nation. It also provides over 250 information packed homeschooling seminar and workshop sessions. Moreover, these seminar and workshop sessions are led by an unparalleled group of speakers, including Dr. Susan Wise Bauer, John Rosemond, Jessie Wise, Andrew Pudewa, Cathy Duffy, Doug Phillips, Rebecca Kochenderfer, Attorney David Gibbs, Douglas & Nancy Wilson, Amanda Bennett, Tim and Barb Cash, Catherine Levison, Leigh Bortins, Carol Barnier, Jim Weiss, Karen “Spunky Homeschool” Braun, Lee Binz, Dr. Stephen Guffanti, Dr. Jonathan Pennington, Attorney Christine Field, John Stonestreet, Dr. Jeff Myers, and more!! “Previous attendees have remarked that the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention provides a combination of wide-ranging, relevant instruction and encouragement, lots of it, and extremely affordable registration pricing that is simply unheard of anywhere else in the country,” said Brennan Dean, Director. This year’s convention also features an optional Children’s Program, as well as a sixteen-session Worldview Teen Track that is being led by John Stonestreet of Summit Ministries and Dr. Jeff Myers of Passing the Baton. And, as if that weren’t enough, on Friday evening, comedian Tim Hawkins will be performing. Finally, each family attending this April 2010 convention will receive a free first-year membership in Homeschool Legal Advantage (www.HomeschoolLegalAdvantage.com) (HLA). This is a $65 value, free! HLA provides homeschool-related legal advice and even legal representation when necessary. Additionally, this first year membership includes a free Last Will and Testament – for both Mom and Dad – drafted by an HLA attorney! Add it all up, and you’ve got The Homeschool Event of the Year – with thousands of enthusiastic homeschooling families attending from all over the nation! “Homeschoolers are as unique and diverse a group of people as you’ll find anywhere. As such, we have structured the convention in such a way that it is a veritable smorgasboard of homeschooling information and encouragement,” Dean remarked. “And, from that, each family can tailor their convention experience in a way that is most helpful and uniquely applicable to their own family.” For more information on this April 2010 homeschooling convention, please visit the MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati website. (www.CincinnatiHomeschoolConvention.com) Don’t Miss JOHN ROSEMOND, LIVE!Thursday, July 16th, 2009
John Rosemond is one of America’s most popular speakers in the parenting field. In a given year, he gives more than 150 talks to parent and professional audiences all over the map. His talks are provocative, informative, practical, and always entertaining. John promises that his audiences will laugh…a lot. John is a best-selling author, syndicated parenting columnist, and has been interviewed on many radio and television shows including Focus on the Family, 20/20, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN and others, as well as numerous print interviews. John went into private practice in 1979. In 1989, his first book for Andrews McMeel, John Rosemond’s Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children was published. Because it was so very different in its approach than the parenting books in the market, it attracted lots of attention and controversy. Suddenly, John was receiving invitations to speak from all over the USA and even Canada and even Europe and Australia, so he left private practice in 1990 and has been full time as a writer and speaker ever since After writing ten books for Andrews McMeel, John wrote his first faith-based parenting book, Parenting by The Book, which was published by Howard Books (a subsidiary of Simon and Schuster) in 2007. In less than six months, PbTB sold so well that John was lured, willingly, into a three-book deal with Thomas Nelson, the biggest Christian publisher in the world. His first book for TN, The Diseasing of America’s Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control, written with pediatrician Dr. Bose Ravenel, was published in September 2008. Next will come, The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that Really Works!
ENDORSEMENTS Dr. David C. Stoker (First Presbyterian Church Gastonia, NC) “John Rosemond is a most engaging and entertaining speaker and you will find your time with him fun, challenging and life changing. As a pastor of over twenty years I find the material biblically solid, drawing its teaching directly from Scripture.” Pastor Mike Townsend (New Heights Baptist Church Columbia, SC) “Simply put, God’s Word came alive in an easy to understand and applicable fashion for some very frustrated parents.” C. Ellis Fisher, M.D. (Pediatrician Gastonia, North Carolina) I recently had the opportunity to attend Parenting by The Book presented by John Rosemond at First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, NC. The information has proven to be most helpful in my practice of pediatrics, and my only regret is that I did not discover this very practical, Scripture-based approach 29 years ago when I began my practice…I have incorporated John’s material into my every day counseling with patients and their parents, with excellent results.” ATTENDEE COMMENTS… “Excellent practical learning…The Christian aspect of this seminar was very refreshing…” “This has been the second best gift anyone has ever given me – my salvation being the best. It will also be the best gift that my husband and I can give our son. Thank you and God bless you.” “Thank you so much! We were informed, empowered, and entertained. Your information is common sense, and it’s amazing how natural I felt after practicing some of the principles last night. We’re planning our very own ‘Rosemond Revolution’ in the near future!” “It was worth every minute and penny to come to this presentation…” “This was an outstanding workshop. Our prayer is that the truths shared in this workshop would be wide spread. It has been very helpful hearing the truth so plainly put. The practical advice given in this workshop is invaluable.” “Wonderful insights…a very doable approach. I feel well-armed in more effectively parenting my children.” “Eye-opening! As a woman, wife, and mother I feel emancipated! I highly recommend your seminar to all.” “This is the sort of experience that we will look back on as the watershed of our child-rearing. Thank you for cutting through the nonsense and showing us the timeless lessons we need.” “I’m totally refreshed and energized, and I’ve got my vision for discipline back!” “Empowering!” “I feel blessed and empowered…” “I am heading home with a weight lifted from my shoulders.” “We have seven children and we now have tools to get the chaos and confusion in our family to stop.” “I feel liberated! Thank you for taking the time to teach us the Truth!” “Thank you for teaching us what God says about raising our children and for reminding us that His Word is the example we should follow in everything we do.” “I’m going to run home, kick my son out of the Garden of Eden, and start this now!” “This seminar was the answer to my prayers!” “I’m going to call my mother when I get home and tell her she was right!” “You may have saved my relationship with my husband.” “Every time I see you, God speaks through you. You have been so blessed. You are interesting, funny, and a great messenger. You are obviously on a mission and this is God’s plan for you.” “This has been a wonderful seminar. It has truly motivated the leap from post-modern psychological parenting to traditional parenting. My husband has known this all along, but I wouldn’t listen and stood in the way. Thank you for opening my eyes and getting me out of the way so God can work in our home.” “We are blessed to have had you so up close and personal.” “Thank you for your eye-opening information and for your outstanding presentation!” “Never a dull moment!” “Terrific seminar! Enjoyed it thoroughly!” “Thank you for presenting the truth to us this weekend. Great workshop!” “Thank you for keeping it practical and simple.” “Awesome! Thanks is not saying enough.” |
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It’s an honor to have JOHN ROSEMOND joining us as a Featured Speaker for this year’s convention! If you are looking for practical, effective, fun, Biblical parenting instruction and advice, you cannot afford to miss John’s sessions at this year’s MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati!