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308 | Planning Your New Year's Personal Retreat (Jessica Smartt) Dec 22, 2021

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January is the perfect time for a mom's personal retreat. In this episode Jessica will share tips and tricks of hosting your own personal homeschool mom retreat. With a little bit of creativity, you can benefit from taking the time to rest, pray, plan, and goal-set for the second half of the school year.

Host biography

Jessica is a wife, homeschool mom of three, author, and blogger. She lives in sunny North Carolina on a big family farm with chickens, goats, cousins, and lots of mud.

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307 | 101 Lies I Tell Myself About Homeschooling (Jennifer Cabrera) Dec 14, 2021

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Listen, laugh, and relate to this list of 101 homeschool lies. Lies we tell ourselves with the best intentions. Fibs and complete baloney caused by the pressure for perfection and desire for the outside world to pat us on the back. Dreams of educational success can lead to grand expectations and impossible goals we can't begin to complete with when life gets in the way. Saying them out loud reveals the ridiculousness and frees your efforts to be awesome at this!

Host biography

Jennifer Cabrera, the Hifalutin Homeschooler, is the writer of homeschool truth, humor, and inspiration. Jennifer lives in Salado, Texas with her husband and three brilliant boys. She is a licensed Physician Assistant/MPH, but set aside that career for her ultimate life's work. She is also the author of Socialize Like a Homeschooler: A Humorous Homeschool Handbook and Revolting Writing, a hilarious writing, vocabulary, and illustration journal for reluctant writers. She is a featured speaker with Great Homeschool Conventions and her memes and witty insights are widely shared on social media.

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Against My Will: Becoming a Homeschool Mom

101 Lies I Tell Myself About Homeschooling

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Have you joined us at one of the Great Homeschool Conventions? We hope to see you there!

For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show.

View full show notes on the blog.

306 | Start Your Homeschool Day Out Right (Sean Allen) Dec 08, 2021

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The success of your homeschool day largely depends on how you begin the day. If your mornings are a mad scramble and the rest of your day is anything but peaceful, let this episode serve as a call to gather your children together first thing in the morning to pay your devotions to your Father in heaven. You'd be amazed at how even five minutes in the morning — every morning — can influence your homeschool for the better.

Host biography

Sean Allen is the founder of The Well Ordered Homeschool, husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents in the incredibly challenging, yet surpassingly beautiful, work of schooling and training their children at home.

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The Character of the Holidays Devotional Series

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Sean Allen | Instagram | Facebook | Website

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Thank you to our sponsors!

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Have you joined us at one of the Great Homeschool Conventions? We hope to see you there!

For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show.

View full show notes on the blog.

305 | Finding Community as a Homeschooler (Serena Ryan) Dec 01, 2021

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On this episode, you will learn about the importance of finding community as a homeschooler and how to find your people within the homeschooling world. You will learn tips on how to find local community as well as what the difference is between a co-op, an umbrella school, and a tutorial. You will also learn about finding community using social media. Your homeschooling besties can be just one message away. You will also hear some tips on starting your own homeschooling community if there isn't already one in your area.

Host biography

Serena Ryan is the founder of The Confident Homeschooler. After a turbulent start homeschooling her own children, she became passionate about helping other parents with an interest in homeschooling get started with success and confidence. Serena lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband, sons, and dogs. Serena was a Registered Nurse who left her career to homeschool her two sons, as well as help her husband run their online marketing business. She loves spreading awareness about the beauty of homeschooling and empowering parents. Serena created her e-course, Homeschool With Confidence, to equip parents with everything they need to get started.

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Serena Ryan | Instagram | Facebook | Website

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Thank you to our sponsors!

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Have you joined us at one of the Great Homeschool Conventions? We hope to see you there!

For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show.

View full show notes on the blog.

304 | Two 12-Year-Old Boys Share Their Favorite Books (Jessica Smartt) Nov 16, 2021

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In this episode, Jessica interviews two seventh-grade boys on the topic of their best book recommendations. The boys offer suggestions for fantasy, non-fiction, as well as books for beginning readers.

Host biography

Jessica Smartt is a former English teacher and homeschooling mom of three who lives in beautiful North Carolina. She is the blogger behind Smartter Each Day and author of two books, Let Them Be Kids and Memory-Making Mom.

Resources

Book List: Boys' Favorites

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Jessica Smartt | Instagram | Website

Homeschooling.mom | Instagram | Website

Thank you to our sponsors!

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Have you joined us at one of the Great Homeschool Conventions? We hope to see you there!

For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show.

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303 | He Said, She Said: A Homeschool Marriage (Jennifer Cabrera with Damian Cabrera) Nov 09, 2021

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Behind the scenes banter with real homeschool parents. Get some homeschool dad insight from an interview with Mr. Hifalutin. Then listen and laugh along with a comical rendition of a homeschool marriage court deposition over some common everyday struggles and trials.

Mr. Hifalutin-- Damian Cabrera is the husband of Jennifer Cabera, the Hifalutin Homeschooler. He is not only a good humored participant in this episode, but a once reluctant, and now staunch advocate for homeschooling. His day job as a cardiothoracic surgical PA keeps the family fed, but his life position of husband, father, educator, and leader is his life's greatest work.

302 | Education is an Atmosphere (Sean Allen) Nov 02, 2021

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What goes into your homeschool is as important as what surrounds it. Today's episode focuses on how important it is to create an atmosphere of learning in your home. This atmosphere is made up of many things including organization, discipline, attitude and even decor. If you find that your homeschool just seems to be dragging along, let this episode serve as a call to stop and take a day (or a week!) to address the environmental factors that may be keeping you from creating the homeschool you've always wanted.

301 | Can You Take "A Message to Garcia"? (Janice Campbell) Oct 26, 2021

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How do you teach your child what it means to be a responsible person? Like most parents, you probably model the traits you hope they will acquire, and that's the best possible way. However, don't forget the power of literature. Fables, parables, stories, and humorous essays (such as this one) can spark discussions, provide vivid examples, and remind us of truths in ways that are more memorable and meaningful than straight admonition. Join me today for a reading of the classic essay, "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard. It's the type of essay that can help you make an important point in an entertaining way. Enjoy!

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is best known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community and as an influential advocate of the Arts and Crafts movement. He and his wife, Alice, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine in 1915.

Janice Campbell is the graduated homeschool mom of four sons, and is the author of the Excellence in Literature curriculum and other books for homeschool families.

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Excellence in Literature

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300 | Getting Dads Involved in Homeschooling (Jessica Smartt with Graham Clark) Oct 22, 2021

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What does it look like for dads to support homeschooling? If mom is the primary "teacher," what role do dads play? Graham Clark weighs in on the creative ways dads can pitch in to support their wives.

Graham is a father of four and wife to Katie who lives in North Carolina. Graham works as a safety consultant by day, but also runs the Strategic Families podcast.

"Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church." Ephesians 5:25

RESOURCES

Strategic Families Podcast by Graham Clark

Window on the World

The Vanishing American Adult

How We Started Our Co-op, HSS episode #283

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Let Them Be Kids

Memory-Making Mom

299 | Discovering the "Why" Behind Your Homeschool (Sean Allen) Oct 19, 2021

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There are many different reasons why people decide to homeschool, but not all reasons carry the same amount of "conviction." Regardless of whether you're just starting out or have been homeschooling for years, getting clear about the "why" behind your homeschool is critical to its longevity. Now is the perfect time to consider again why you're schooling your children at home and whether that reason is convicting enough to see you through to the end.

Sean Allen is the founder of The Well Ordered Homeschool, husband to his beautiful bride Caroline, and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents in the incredibly challenging, yet surpassingly beautiful, work of schooling and training their children at home. You can find his products at thewellorderedhomeschool.com.

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Hebrews 12:1 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

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