Your family can still attend the Countdown to College Live Worshop in Coeur d'Alene, ID at the Early Registration price, if you sign up this weekend! The updated Countdown Workshop has all the hands-on workspace for families to strategize for high school from dreaming to sealing the graduation paperwork.  Plus the new workshop includes a preview of the post-high school family survival seminar, Quests & Homecomings, and opportunities to interact with recent grads, one-stop resume builder providers and teens blazing a trail to their own post-high school destinations. Hear what parents are saying about the workshop: Special pricing ends 7am MDT on Monday morning!

Countdown to College has gone coast to coast.  See what people are saying about it! The Live workshop is coming to Idaho in May.  The NEW Virtual workshop is coming to a computer near YOU!  Watch for new DVDs of the workshop in the catalog over the next few weeks.

In addition to the wealth of information about preparing for college and business, this year's Countdown to College includes an extended lunch hour for shopping and one-on-one discussion, as well as the opportunity to network with One-Stop Resume Builder organizations, students in the thick of college application, and representatives from a unique Great-Books college. Community organizations which have been invited to participate in the after-lunch round table and networking times are: Congressional Award Council of Idaho Boy Scouts of America Communicators for Christ New St. Andrews College The deepest discounts for the workshop expire April 30th, so be sure to reserve your place by registering here.  And don't forget that you can earn even greater discounts by inviting your friends to come as well.  Families who invite 5 or more other families by April 30th can win a free personal consultation with Kim!

Introducing The Pre-Launch Challenge, a contest for a two-hour free personal college prep consultation with Kim! Bring your records, your hopes and your challenges for an evaluation and help with your next steps. To enter, invite your friends to attend the Countdown to College Coeur d'Alene workshop. Whenever a new (not an alumni) family signs up and mentions that you invited them, you will receive $10 off admission – until your workshop is free! (Rebates will be given at the workshop) Families who recruit more than 5 families will be entered into a drawing for the free one-on-one consultation. You must be available during Kim's visit to Idaho to receive an in-person consultation, otherwise the consultation will be conducted by phone and online. The drawing will be held on April 30, and the winner will be notified by email and by phone. Only families with paid registrations received by April 30 will count toward your total for the drawing.  This post will be sticky until the 30th. Register for the Idaho Countdown to College Workshop today!

  Contact us to Schedule a Workshop: countdown2college@gmail.com We are delighted that you are thinking about bringing one of Kim’s inspiring workshops to your community! What would you need and how would it look? Read on:   Countdown to College Workshop This is an 8.5-hour presentation; including a half-hour gathering time, a 1-hour lunch or dinner, and a 1-hour shopping/discussion time afterwards. Set-up takes up to 1 ½ hours (depending on tech glitches), and take-down takes about 1 hour. Countdown to College provides: · Full day of content, discussion, and media, developed by Kim Anderson. · Intergenerational presenters (as available), who can inspire the entire extended family. · Printed syllabi for workshop note-taking. · Electronic advance publicity materials and ideas for your local PR campaign. · Online and mail-in registration. You don’t have to do any of that paperwork! · Online publicity for your event on the Countdown to College website. · Transportation to and from the nearest airport served by Frontier Airlines. · Books and resources about the transition to post-high school life, family life, college, teen entrepreneurship and resume-development for participants to ...

Don't miss the opportunity to hear Kim live in the Coeur d'Alene area! Saturday, May 16th! The updated Countdown Workshop has all the hands-on workspace for families to strategize for high school from dreaming to sealing the graduation paperwork.  Plus the new workshop includes a preview of the post-high school survival seminar, Quests & Homecomings, and opportunities to interact with recent grads, one-stop resume builder providers and teens blazing a trail to their own post-high school destinations. Registration is now open!

Introducing The Pre-Launch Challenge, a contest for a two-hour free personal college prep consultation with Kim! Bring your records, your challenges and your hopes for an evaluation and help with your next steps. To enter, invite your friends to attend the Countdown to College Denver workshop. Whenever a new (not an alumni) family signs up and mentions that you invited them, you will receive $10 off admission – until your workshop is free! (Rebates will be given at the workshop) Families who recruit more than 5 families will be entered into a drawing for the free one-on-one consultation. You must be in Denver to receive your consultation. The drawing will be held on January 24, and the winner will be notified by email and by phone. Only families with paid registrations received by Jan. 24 will count toward your total for the drawing.

Ninja-Style Celebrations In this day of helicopter parents and boomerang kids, it’s clear we have forgotten both how to hand off the baton to the next generation and how to maintain a healthy intergenerational involvement in each other’s lives as our children reach adulthood. What’s a mother (or father) to do?! Providentially, God has been here before us, giving us patterns for raising and releasing powerful young people into the world. When Israel was a tiny-tot nation taking his first steps toward freedom, God gathered this son to Mt Sinai and gave him two wonderful gifts: boundaries and celebrations. The Law and the festival calendar. Explore God’s patterns for launch-proofing your family. Schedule a Launch-Proof Legacy workshop. On the celebration side, God was building into his son a leveraged call to homesickness. We all recognize the power of the holidays to make us long for the familiar things, the good old days and family times. But the way God built them, holiday celebrations were leveraged to produce maximum desire for home and His ways. How? Each celebration He crafted was more than turkey and football. His celebrations were highly creative remembrances of specific instances of His goodness to His son – especially in bad times. ...

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work involved in getting ready to launch a young person into adult life? Do you need to simplify even as the performance demands increase? In the Countdown to College workshop, we discuss One-Stop Resume Builders at some length. A One-Stop-Resume-Builder is a single activity that can give you all the major elements your student needs to develop for a launch-to-life resume. These activities usually provide both blessed relief from the stress of trying to find what you need a little bit at a time, and delightful occupation for most of your family members at the same time. Competitive speech and debate in the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association is one of my family’s favorite One-Stop-Resume-Builders. In the context of a local club, your student will find one of the best academic validations available, leadership opportunities, often service opportunities and a matchless peer group. I am writing to you as I return from teaching the final Values Debate camp for Training Minds Ministries this fall. It was four and a half days of intensive study of the history of philosophy, the structure of debate, and its everyday application in sharing the Gospel with ...

Coming Soon! Title: Resume Development for the Real World Location: Colorado Springs, CO Description: Christian Home Educators of Colorado host the mini-workshop in their new Prepare for Life Seminar Date: 2008-10-18 Contact CHEC at www.cheg.org to sign up and to receive additional details.