Episodes

Do you have entrepreneurial students in your homeschool? Listen this week as Amanda talks with CEO and founder of The Homeschool Printing Company, Melissa Ekloff as they talk about encouraging entrepreneurship for your stude...

Did you pull your kids out of school and suddenly feel like you were free falling off a cliff, wondering what you'd gotten yourself into and completely anxious about what to do next? Join us this week as we talk …

It's perfectly reasonable to still have questions about homeschooling, even if you've been doing it for a while ... we know we do! Sometimes questions arise just because you're in a new season, or because your kids are trans...

Are you feeling the "mid year burnout?" It's definitely real for homeschoolers! Generally, the weather doesn't help much, and we're all trying to stay encouraged in our teaching and not get bogged down in the lessons that m...

Why can't the educational, social or emotional needs of our boys be met in traditional schools? How can we help our sons to love learning, feel valued and still have that drive and enthusiasm that will spur them on to …

Are you a homeschooling family that struggles to find devotions that teach spiritual truth but also hold your kids' attention? Do you wish you could find clean, riveting fiction for your children to read that doesn't shy away...

Sometimes homeschoolers struggle with teaching history, but it *can* be made fun for kids of all ages through field trips, projects, even historical fiction! Have you considered that we can instill a love of history in our c...

In today's episode, Erin and Amanda speak with Joe McGhee, Erin's husband, for his perspective as a husband and father in their family's homeschooling journey. Erin and Joe have homeschooled their four kids (three teens!) ov...

Do you have that one kid that just fights you on learning, whether it be one subject or all of them? Have you considered using games to move the learning along, called "gameschooling?" When children play games, they learn ...

Having the hard conversations with our daughters who are homeschooled is just as necessary as it is in traditional education settings. Whether it's social media expectations and "beauty culture" or fitting in versus belongin...

Erin and Amanda welcome Steve Lambert this week to discuss homeschooling past, present and future. Steve brings homeschool wisdom and keen insight on the things we need to do now to ensure our family's homeschool success in ...

Wouldn't you love for your homeschool to be built on a foundation that is less stressful and more peaceful so your family can thrive? In today's episode, Erin and Amanda speak with Katie Keene, host of the Her Home and …

Are you longing for a peaceful homeschool, wanting to rid your home of the chaos and clatter? Atmosphere has little to do with how you decorate ... and more about creating tranquility that is welcoming to our family and visit...

Some of our homeschool students just don't like writing, and it can be a struggle to get them to put words on a page. How can we teach it in a way that helps them to develop their authentic writing …

It can be so hard to hear, "you're so intense..," even from friends or family! Why are some of us so laser-focused on whatever we put our attention to, whether it's our home, our spouses, our homeschools, or even the …

Building community in homeschooling can sometimes be hard. While larger cities and suburbs might have co-ops and in-person activities where you can meet like-minded homeschoolers, sometimes there just aren't those resources ...

In most relationships, there will be conflict, and it's just as true for homeschooling communities. Whether the situation is your child facing relationship issues with other homeschooled kids or irreconciliable differences y...

How can we get less busy in this homeschool life? From running kids to activities, keeping the house reasonably orderly and trying to get some schoolwork in the "in between" of life, many homeschool moms are just flat-out exh...

As a homeschooling parent, do you sometimes feel pressure to bring in extra income into your family? The reasons might be because of employment changes, the economy being tight or sudden expenses that need to be met. Some f...

With the events of the last few years impacting "cost of living" items, more families are wanting to re-connect with the sources of their food and live a lifestyle that is more self-sufficient. This "modern day homesteading" ...

How do we teach our tweens math when there are toddlers underfoot, or keep our teens patient when their younger siblings are slowing everything to a crawl? That large age difference between and among our children is called a...

Far too many parents focus on academics as the most critical part of their homeschool, when what may be the more important activity, especially for children, is the concept of play. Play is defined as a range of intrinsicall...

When your family is faced with catastrophic disease, life becomes very different, including how you homeschool. Providing around the clock care to her daughter with a rare, nonhereditary genetic mutation meant that Andi Elli...

The atmosphere of a homeschool is so important to successful learning, and as you get longer into this journey of home education, you find fairly quickly that you as Mama set the tone for the home. Tone can be impacted …