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Emulating the Saints: Holy Role Models Help Children Choose Compassion

We all want children who live with giving hearts and who show compassion to those around them. We pray for our children to be faithful…

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Posted in 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade Kindergarten Preschool Religion

Give Your Children a Summer That Builds Conviction and Compassion

Guest post from Culture of Life Studies Program Summer is here, and if you’re like most parents, you want to fill your children’s days with…

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Strengthening Pro-Life Values at Home

For more than 12 years, American Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program has served parents, teachers, and students by providing authentically Catholic pro-life materials for kids in pre-K-12th grade. What began as just…

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A St. Patrick’s Day Lesson on Moral Courage and Forgiveness

A Guest Post from Culture of Life Studies On St. Patrick’s Day, we celebrate one of the Catholic Church’s most well-known missionaries. Saint Patrick didn’t just bring…

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Team Iron Will: Essay Contest for World Down Syndrome Day

Every year on March 21, we celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, a day “created to celebrate the lives of people with Down syndrome and to…

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12 Lent Practices to Foster a Culture of Life in Your Family

Lent is here! This 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving affords us an amazing opportunity to spend the next several weeks building our faith, growing…

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Posted in Religion The Homeschooling Life

Nurturing Pro-Life Values: Lessons from St. Fiacre’s Garden

Raising children requires time, attention, and love. Most importantly, raising children in our Catholic faith and who understand and hold pro-life values requires each of…

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“All Hallows’ Eve”: New Picture Book by Anthony DeStefano

All Hallows’ Eve By Anthony DeStefano; illustrated by Erwin Madrid Published by Sophia Institute Press As an avid reader, writer, editor, and former homeschooling mom,…

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6 Ways Your Child Will Benefit from Entering CLSP’s Respect Life Month Essay Contest

St. Anthony of Padua taught, “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.” At the Culture of Life Studies Program,…

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‘All Shapes and Sizes,’ a Beautiful Way to Celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Month

October is Respect Life Month. It is also Down Syndrome Awareness Month—“a month to raise awareness and celebrate the many abilities of our loved ones…

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