At Seton Home Study School, we believe that the emphasis in home schooling should be on the home. Though our program is academically challenging, the basic reason for home schooling for most parents is to teach traditional family values. Our reading books, for example, have family stories with a mother and a father. They portray a traditional family setting, rather than a modern aberration. The family consists of several children, and everyone is happy when God sends a precious gift of another baby.
Grandparents often visit, and they share experiences with the grandchildren.
The Catholic home life is pictured with family prayers and regular Church attendance. Parents and teachers tell stories about saints and Jesus. In the upper grades, the reading books teach children about pioneer and immigrant Catholic families traveling and working together to make America a better country. Stories of sacrifice to bring priests and the sacraments to families are very common in the Faith and Freedom readers. Reading day after day about good Catholic family life, and discussing it, home-schooled children can come to appreciate their own family.