Homeschool Parent Support Group

  • Duration: 15 Weekly 60-min. Discussions
  • Schedule: Fall 2026, Spring 2027
  • Price: $250
Videoconference Live Sessions
  • Tuesdays, 8:30–9:30 a.m. CT
  • August 25–December 20 (15 sessions, plus breaks on Oct. 13 and Nov. 24 and a catch-up session as needed on Dec. 20)
Objective

Are you a first-time homeschooling parent, or a veteran who still could use some guidance? Would you like an experienced homeschooling mom to come along beside you for your first year, not only cheering you on with encouragement, but also keeping you accountable and helping you find curriculum and set and meet goals?

Required Books
  • No purchases required.
  • The instructor will provide handouts at no additional cost.
Outline

This mentoring package consists of a set of 15 one-hour meetings per semester (fall or spring, with differing topics, making it worthwhile to enroll both times). Marie will come along beside a new homeschooling family, presenting a basic outline of the information that every new homeschool family needs, but also customizing the details for each family to support in the ways they need the most. Topics may include educational philosophy, curriculum, assessment, communication, discipline, networking, self-care, re-evaluation, and more! This course will equip even the most inexperienced families to homeschool with confidence.

Instructor

Mrs. Marie MacPherson earned an MA in the Great Books from Memoria College and a BA in Elementary Education from Bethany Lutheran College, with a certification as a Lutheran teacher in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod as well as a classical Lutheran education certificate from the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education. As a homeschool mother with nearly two decades of experience, she has coordinated music camps, art enrichment courses, and speech teams. She is author of several books, including Teaching Your Children Chastity and a two-volume devotional entitled Meditations on the Vocation of Motherhood. Homeschool moms across America have come to Marie for advice, which finally led her to suggest to her husband that they expand their service to their neighbors by establishing Lifelong Lyceum.

Our Unique Approach

  • Supporting families in lifelong learning
  • Offering interactive live sessions through small-audience videoconferencing
  • Teaching according to the classical pursuit of goodness, truth, and beauty
  • Cultivating the values of Western civilization: natural law, cardinal and theological virtues, Socratic questioning, syllogistic reasoning
  • Promoting the ideals of America’s founding: representative government and the rule of law for protecting people’s God-given rights to life, liberty, and property
  • Standing on the foundation of the historic Christian faith as taught in Holy Scripture and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Augsburg Confession
  • Training homeschool students in specified subjects, with the parent ensuring that the child stays on pace (“Did you finish your reading for tomorrow’s videonconference live session?”) while Lifelong Lyceum handles the details of instruction and assessment
 

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Testimonials

My high school student was well equipped and deeply edified by Marie MacPherson’s seminars on the Greek tragedies. She guided students with rigorous and thoughtful discernment into meaningful life application and strong scriptural integration. Her teaching cultivated intellectual inquiry, historical perspective, and spiritual reflection. My son benefited tremendously from the fruitful contemplation she fostered throughout the course.

—Kate, Ohio

Marie MacPherson is an exceptional educator whose passion makes the material engaging, and her calm, kind demeanor has encouraged my son to enjoy and actively participate in class. Most importantly, her instruction is firmly rooted in Scripture and our Lutheran faith. We are blessed to have found Marie and could not have asked for a better experience.

—Natalie, Georgia