Carpe Diem Cadre Recognizes Extraordinary Youth Service

College vs Apprenticeship: a False Dilemma

Store is Live!
The moment many of you have been waiting for! The store is live with new downloads so you can begin reading and planning instantly!  Best of all everything is on sale! Just click to the individual product pages to see the sale prices. If you have already bought some of the Countdown to College products, please visit the catalog pages and rate the products.

CollegeWorks Working to Create College Opportunities
Homeschoolers are excited about distance learning options that earn students college credit while they are still in high school.  But not all distance learning programs are created equal. Recently, Wanda Burdick agreed to chat with me about her excellent CollegeWorks program

Marketplace Under Construction
The Countdown to College marketplace is currently under construction.  Expect a new, improved shopping experience in just a few days! You will find new features such as audio samples, downloadable books, downloadable videos and audio files.  Coming soon: a subscription section where you can enter discussions and workshops with other college-bound and launch-ready families, and private counseling.

Build a Community of Positive Peers
One of the chief concerns for parents of teens is how to find or to create a community of positive peers. Kim’s new book, Coaching a Club, just released by Monument Publishing, offers seven secrets for creating such a community and unleashing teens’ longing to achieve somethin

Parenting Inspiration
My friend, Julie Ferwerda, has just released a new book, One Million Arrows. In it she outlines a vision to inspire us to raise powerfully spiritual children and to aim them at the heartaches of the world. The book began with the compassion of one man – a poor man in India – who gathered up orphans from the streets and began to nurture them in the name of J