Early Life
Pride was born in New York City, New York, in 1955. She has described herself as a bright student who graduated high school at age 15, after which she entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1974 and a master's degree in Computer Systems Engineering a year later. She married her husband Bill around this time and both soon converted to Evangelical Christianity. Pride had formerly considered herself a feminist activist.
Before the first of Pride’s nine children were born, she had decided to homeschool them. The lack of homeschooling guides she encountered prompted her to begin writing her own.
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