We are having a Give Away!!!
One lucky winner will be receiving a free month on The HomeScholar Gold Care Club!
All you need to do to enter is comment on this blog post with the answer to this question:
“Why do you deserve a free month on The Gold Care Club?”
Posts should be (about) 100 words or less and will be judged on the basis of creativity and humor. The only strict rule is we won’t be rewarding hard-luck entries. We can save those discussions for a consultation. Matt and I will be doing the judging and we’ll likely decide on which one makes us laugh the hardest.
If you join The Gold Care Club on April 21 and also win the contest, we will gladly refund your first month’s dues.
The contest will run through midnight (Pacific Time) on April 20. We will announce the winner after the launch when we announce the winners of the “early responder bonuses.”
Now get busy and have fun! We have been working hard for the last few weeks and we really need a good laugh! Let’s see what you got!
PS. For those of you who don’t get our emails, here is the offer page for The HomeScholar Gold Care Club. On it you will see all the wonderful bonuses you will receive when you purchase. Sign up immediately at 12 noon Pacific Time on April 21 and you might win the “early responder bonuses” that we describe.
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Diane Shaeffer says:
Because I really, really, R-E-A-L-L-Y need it!!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Deidra says:
Hi, I would love to win your free month of High School help. I know I need this because I need help remembering to get dressed and I need help finding my car after shopping. I am in a daze most of the time. I think it is because I have a 15 year old gifted high schooler…and I’ve promised him yet again to actually start real high school soon…I have a rambunctous 12 year old boy…oh, he’s in the swamp again; that’s Science, right? Oh, I gotta go…my 4 year old daughter is screaming because she’s afraid of the Evil Bunnies. Thanks 12 year old. Oh, yes I need….help.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Mischele Brisco says:
I have a soon to be 9th grade boy and am totally in need of your assistance! We would be blessed by your materials!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Jennifer Grant says:
I am clueless – not by nature, or at least I don’t think so. I am a fairly intelligent, college educated woman with 15 years of experience in journalism. That’s not saying much, though, as some of today’s most noteworthy newspapers are dropping like proverbial flies. This leads to my own concern of becoming obsolete before my son even begins high school. Will I be able to challenge him, offering what traditional school can? Or is this recovering journalist doomed to the same fate of dying daily newspapers? Please, help clue me in with a free month of the Gold-Care Club!
April 14th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Rita Jensen says:
Hi Lee,
Everything sounds so great, and I’m heartsick because my husband said that your price is out of our range currently. Perhaps, because you are a home business, with little overhead, you could reduce the monthly rate for people struggling during these econmic times to say $15.00 /month or so.
Blessings to you and your wonderful family, including your awesome quality control officer husband)
Rita Jensen
Arroyo Grande, Ca.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Sue Conry says:
Hi Lee,
In spite of having graduated 3 from high school on into college, I’m finding out from you that there’s a lot more to know! So for the sake of my 9th grader, I think I could use some help. She’s the one struggling with figuring out what she wants to do post high school and I’m not very helpful with this. Her 3 older sisters were pretty definite about what they wanted to do so this is a new situation for me!
Sue in ARkanasas
April 14th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Joy says:
I need this club b/c I am getting 20 homeschool high schoolers ready for college! HELP! Fortuntately I’m not paying for their college–I’m just teaching a class on College and Careers. My strength is in career choice and not so much in colleges (I mean I got into college, but I need some help fast to help these kids!) Would you answer all my questions, so I can answer theirs?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Kate Guynn says:
Hi Lee,
I’m crazy! Our son is 10 1/2. I’m already looking forward to the end goal of college. So between mopping, cleaning up cat puke, seeing what the dog has torn up now, baking and getting ready to go ride horses; I’m looking forward to sending him to college. I get stomach pains when I think of record keeping and transcripts. Please help this mom who is covered in cat hair while making the fourth batch of Amish Friendship Bread because she can’t remember to give some of it away! Would you like me to send you some?
Kate
Texas
April 14th, 2009 at 8:42 am
April Eaton says:
Why do I deserve the Gold Care Club membership? I’m a mom, doesn’t that say enough!? I have four children, ranging in age from 15 years down to 4 years. I need some serious help to make sure in the chaos of life and homeschooling, I don’t fill out the college applications in crayon. A wise mom realizes that many have gone before her (and I don’t mean just making messes), and seizes the opportunity to learn from those pioneers. So to keep the good name of homeschoolers, I need all the help I can get to present my kids as the college/scholarship applicants that colleges can’t live without. Thanks for all you do Lee.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Jeannine Petriel says:
Lee,
I need a month in your Gold Care because I have a 15 year old son who doesn’t care much about his future unless it involves video games, a 13 year old daughter who is doing online classes connected with the public school, a 10 year old son who has learning disabilities and a precocious 8 year old daughter who will probably make college before she is 16. Along with my own children, I am a homeschool evaluator with many parents that have kids in the same boat and we are all paddling in circles. Lee, a month of the Gold Care club would give this boat a rudder and get us sailing in the right direction.
Will you come aboard Captain and help me get the ship on course?
April 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Rickie VanDyke says:
Once a woman who lived in the woods,
Decided to homeschool, she knew that she could.
So, together with her children,
They cuddled together and read,
Explored and created,
Said their prayers before bed.
They had fun and adventures as they learned and they grew.
Then, one day, the oldest started high school!
Now, we needed a transcript, a way to record,
All the books and the field trips, the texts and reports.
We worried, we wondered, we’d never done this before,
Then Lee Binz said she’d lead us, she’d open the door.
Colleges and universities our transcripts would read,
Our children could choose where to go to succeed.
We need your help. we’re not too proud to ask,
Help us, Help us , teach us our task!
Our thamks and gratitude we send in advance.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
J W says:
Well, let’s see… I don’t have kids in high school yet. So I really don’t need or deserve the Gold Care Club. I can always get free advice from Lee every Sunday. She and Matt always stand at the front of the church to make themselves available to pray for people. If I go up to them then, I can say, “Oh, Lee, I’m so anxious about what’s going on in my home school, I’ve really got a problem, could you pray for…” She and Matt will offer kind words and *free* advice! I can also put her phone number on my mobile phone speed dial, park across the street from her house, point a super-sensitive microphone and binoculars at a window, and know exactly when she’s talking on the phone and when she puts down the receiver during her *free* office hours every Wednesday. So I have an edge there too! I also don’t need or deserve the Gold Care Club because by the time my first child starts high school, I’ll know everything Lee knows. That’s because I’ll have read all the *free* advice she gives here on this blog for something like three or four years! Speaking of this blog, I notice all you *lurkers* out there. Y’all hardly ever actually *post,* but I’m here bugging Lee almost every single day. Hey, maybe I *do* deserve the Gold Care Club, because I post a lot here on this blog. And *my* sage advice and poignant anecdotes have no doubt helped all you *lurkers* out there. I post even when Lee *isn’t* having a contest, so there! But maybe I don’t deserve it after all because by now, I’ve gone *way* over the word limit.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Lee says:
LOLOL!!! Joelle, you are SO funny! Hey, at least people know I’m a real person after you chime in with all that stuff, LOL! Thanks for the giggles! And I’ll see you at church!
Blessings,
Lee
April 15th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Nikki says:
This is only my 2nd year to Homeschool & it is sad when your child knows more than you do. I need the help for me so I will understand what he is talking about when he asks me a question & I answer him & he tells me no that answer is wrong. Please pick me. Nikki
April 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Jane M. says:
Once long ago we started to Homeschool…..
But then…
High School.
We started out smiling,
“We can do this!”
“What could possibly happen?”
Well.
We finished Year One and hid it away
In a box.
In the corner.
Don’t look too closely.
The transcript was waiting.
Year Two was better, but
All summer grading.
All summer filing.
What happened to vacation?
But the transcript was waiting.
Year Three has been stuffed full
With too many acronyms: PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP—Oh my!
With too many colorful college pamphlets—
How can everywhere be both best and better?
But the transcript is still waiting.
You want to go where?
It costs how much?
They want to know what?
Detailed Class Descriptions? HELP….
Year Four looms impending, deadlines and deadlines,
But with HomeScholar it will be a breeze.
But with HomeScholar we will confidently tackle those college admissions.
And I will sit back, take a deep breath, and slowly relax…
The transcript is done!
But.
Wait…
I forgot.
There is another.
It’s time to start back at Year One!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Katie Glennon says:
What do you do with a teenage boy about to enter high school and you need to document his talents for college entrance? Um, let’s see… My son… A cross between Robin Williams, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison (remember what his poor mother went through?), and Mark Twain. Yup! That about says it all.
Now, to put that on paper so it appeals to someone in admissions… “One young man interested in becoming FBI agent, selected by 4-h club to participate in sharp shooting contest, won interpretative reading contest for comedic reading in a southern accent, won 2nd place state art contest of a duck, and trying to teach himself Arabic, keeps flashcards in his pocket to write down and remember things of interest, including vocabulary and math, forgets to wear shoes outside and wears muddy shoes inside after continuously falling into the creek.”
Now, Goals: “While, bringing down the bad guy, young man will comically describe the experience aloud in one of 50 accents he practices daily in one of 50 personalities he practices with me daily, and then will artistically draw the experience for you, while I mop the kitchen floor the 5th time that day and add baking soda and vinegar to my wash daily to get the creek out of everyone’s clothes.”
Other than having to work on cutting my transcript to around 1oo words for this contest, maybe I’ll do ok with this? Not sure, but I would love to try out the Gold Care Club to see if it might help. Gotta go, I just heard another splash!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am
StephC says:
Hi, Lee. I could really use a free month of your Gold Care Club because I homeschool my adorable Wiggly Willy 13 year old daughter while working 40 hours a week. AND, I’m thinking of pulling out my son next year for 10th grade and homeschooling him too, so yes, I’m nuts. I know I’m not the only homeschooler that works, though I am the only one I know! So, juggling lesson preparations, actual lessons with my daughter, housework and time with the hunky stranger I live with (I’m pretty sure he’s my husband!!), I find myself often in a daze. Throw in the sale of our house, moving into a teeny, tiny rental while our new house is being built, AND my job moving into a new and bigger building (all of which has to be done by the end of this month!) I need help!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Rebecca Hardin says:
Why should I get the month free? I’m tired. This isn’t sob-story, just fact: Pregnant with semi-bed-rest, my energy level is at its lowest, so trying to prep for hs just puts me to sleep. Which is really bad when you already have 3 kids in the house… It’s all I can do to schlep my way to the couch with the necessary plastic emergency bucket and keep the 3yrold from peeing on the window and the 8yr old from doing chemistry in the sink, much less deal with hs for a kid who is way smarter than I am and deserves better than what I got at this point… Finally, I don’t even KNOW what I need to know. I’ve been hs denial and now it’s here. And I’m afraid. And tired. Did I mention that?
April 17th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Denise M says:
Giveaway Haiku
High school chaos here
Seeking mentor, clarity
Help HomeScholar Lee
April 20th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Sheri Lindquist says:
(Old Folks at Home or Swanee)
[verse]
Homeschooling is the best choice ever
You will agree!
But High School with out Lee, oh, NEVER!
Not my sons and me.
[verse]
Science, Histr’y, and about Creation
Learn these at home.
Then scholarships and invitations
From th’ schools will come.
[chorus]
High School moms are sad and dreary
everywhere I roam.
Transcripts can make their hearts grow weary
with High School at home.
[verse]
Lee has a certain special’zation
She’ll see you through
You’ll make it to that graduation
If HomeScholar helps you too!
Ok, that’s about the best I can do…
<3
Sheri
April 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Marie says:
We need to win the free month of The HomeScholar Gold Care Club because I think I’ll just have our 17 year old keep working on high school forever and make the worlds biggest transcript some day. Yes, some day…far off and away, far away… Maybe by then he will have decided what he wants to do with himself after high school.
How many years is too long to count for high school?! Then there’s our 13 year old. Maybe you can call it the Golden Care Club… we will all be in our ‘golden’ years by the time we figure it out!
April 20th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Angie says:
My son will be starting high school next year. I could really use the help.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Lee says:
(an anonymous friend asked me to submit this.)
This late at night
I can surely be witty –
But my high school planning
Does not look so pretty;
If you will just help me,
I’ll be quite prudent –
and I’m sure you’ll find me
a Model A student.
With that Gold Care touch
from my own HomeScholar –
It won’t take much
to find that my dollar…
is a small price to pay
for her personal mentoring
to make sure that transcripts
are fine-tuned and centering
my children’s studious interests
in a positive light –
so that colleges everywhere
will be waged in a fight
to make their best offers
and grant the most dollars
to inspired, home educated,
college-prepped scholars.
– anonymous
April 21st, 2009 at 6:44 pm