Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast

The Great October Homeschool Freak-Out

It’s that time of the year. October is scary season:  the Great October Homeschool Freak Out!  This is the month when your carefully crafted homeschool plan comes back to

Anyone Can Teach Art: A Conversation with Julie Abels

Are you art-challenged? Even you can teach art!  Art is so much more than drawing or learning about great artists. Children need opportunities to draw, observe, create, a

Think Outside the Curriculum Box

It's time to think outside the box!  The number one reason veteran homeschool moms burn out or give up is because they try to do school at home.  The first mistake m

Heart of Preschool (& Kindergarten)

If you have a toddler, preschooler, TK, Kindergartener or 6 year old, you don't want to miss this Coffee With Carrie Homeschool episode.  If your children are past t

To Teach or Not Teach Shakespeare: 5 Simple Strategies

To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question!   If you are thinking, "There’s no way I can teach Shakespeare to my kids!" or "There is no way my kids will e

Math Morning Time: Tame Math Tears & Fears

Join Carrie for this little coffee break.  In this episode, Carrie shares fun and simple ways to incorporate math picture books, games, read aloud, and problem-solving ac

Homeschooling Together: A Conversation with Friends About Grandparents Homeschooling Their Grandkids

There’s a beautiful new trend in the homeschooling community: grandparents partnering with parents to homeschool their grandkids!  Do you work full-time or part-time and

History Alive! Revisited & Updated

No textbook? No problem!  You can teach history without relying on dry, boring textbooks filled with sound bites, half-truths, political agendas, or revisionist narrative

The Gentle VS Rigorous Home Education Debate: A Conversation with Christina Carpenter

Is gentle homeschooling truly effective, or does it risk leaving children unprepared compared to a rigorous, structured approach?  In this episode, Carrie sits down with

Practical Self Care for Busy Moms: A Conversation With Ingrid Fincher

In this week’s coffee date, Carrie welcomes Ingrid Fincher of Healthy Holy MomLife to discuss how homeschooling moms can create healthy, Christ-centered rhythms that nurt

Conversational Spanish Without the Grammar Grind: A Conversation with Georgina Tanefski

In this week’s Coffee Break, Carrie sits down with one of her closest friends, Georgina Tanefski—better known in our homeschool community as Señora T.  A bilingual speake

Magnets For Our Attention: Declutter Your Home & Mind

It's time to declutter and build a habit of organization.  "Instead of seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention" (James Clear, Author of Atomi

The Prayer Card System: A Conversation with Stacey Waller

The habit of prayer does not and should not be complicated.  As homeschool moms and busy women, it is hard creating a consistent and meaningful prayer life.  In this week

Literary Wanderlust & Traveling the World: A Conversation with Francesca De Francisco

Books take us places (figuratively and literally)!  In this episode of the Coffee With Carrie Homeschool Podcast, Carrie sits down with her daughter Francesca De Francisc

The Inspired Homeschool: A Conversation with Jennifer Pepito

Be inspired to home educate (or to keep homeschooling) your child!  If you need even more reasons to home educate or you need a confidence that you are teaching your chil

You CAN Teach Your Child To Read: A Conversation with Melanie Jeffery

You CAN teach your child to read without being a reading specialist or having a teaching credential.  For most children, learning to read is a natural and relatively easy

Mi Chiled Iz An Awfl Speller! Help Your Struggling Speller Succeed

"Help! My child is an awful speller?  Why and what can I do?"  Even good readers can be bad spellers.  There's a scientific reason for this.  If you have a child or

Through The Wardrobe: A Year of Learning With C.S. Lewis (All Ages)

C.S. Lewis once said, "We read to know that we are not alone”.  Let's spend the year reading with the most reluctant convert and one of the world's most beloved

Simple Ways to Raise Critical Thinkers & Independent Learners

How many times do you hear in a day “Mom, I need your help"?  How many times do you say to yourself,  “I need him to do more on his own without my help or without me dire

Hard Educational Decisions: A Conversation with Jamie Phipps

Anyone and everyone can homeschool their children, but sometimes, not everyone should homeschool.  The day you became a parent, you became your child's most importan