2009 CONVENTION SPEAKER

Hal and Melanie Young

Hal and Melanie Young ... Fresh from a state tax audit to prove that yes, they're all ours, Hal and Melanie Young are parents of eight children. They have homeschooled through seven high-risk pregnancies, three re-locations, two decades, and 181 degrees of longitude. They spent half of that serving on the board of NCHE (North Carolinians for Home Education). Hal and Melanie have published articles with Homeschooling Today, Homeschool Digest, the N.C. Family Policy Council, the John Locke Foundation, and the Heartland Institute. The Young’s live in noisy familial bliss in Smithfield, North Carolina.

The Youngs will be teaching the following five workshops:

• The World, the Flesh, & the Young’uns: Protecting
      Your Wife in the Homeschooling Life (Hal)
• Just as I Am: Homeschooling Through Challenges
      (Hal and Melanie)
• Sanity’s in the Freezer: Bulk-Cooking to Save
      Time and Money (Melanie)
• Diapers, Playdough, and Microscopes: Homeschooling
      with Babies and Toddlers (Melanie)
• Ballistic Homeschooling: Teaching and Appreciating
      Boys (Melanie)