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The Great Homeschool Crash

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You Don’t Have to Burn Out

Trying to touch on every subject each and every day only led me to burnout! In this podcast I will show I gave our 15 children an excellent education while allowing them

Homeschooling When Life Gets Messy

When I first started homeschooling I thought everything would go so smoothly, but, boy, was I ever wrong! It seems like life didn’t slow down for me, it ramped up. And,

The School Year Was Not Meant For Your Family

Homeschooling gives us the opportunity to take advantage of the natural rhythms of life, instead of being dictated to by a system that is more focused on production than

Beyond Charlotte Mason Dictation

For children struggling with spelling, grammar, or punctuation, there is a simple tool that is powerfully able to help. It’s called dictation. It’s really like a poten

From Frustration to Independence

Most reading struggles aren’t due to flawed children, just materials used at the wrong level. But how to we find that level? For years I struggled with this, until I di

Raise Good Writers Without a Writing Curriculum

Teaching your child to be a good writer is easier than you may think. All it takes is immersion in good writing via classic literature and the McGuffey readers using some

How to Evaluate Curriculum

There are thousands of homeschool curriculum options which is nice in some ways, but also leads to confusion and decision fatigue! I'd like to offer up a few tests for we

Why Home is the Best Curriculum

Do you secretly worry that homeschooling might hurt your child instead of help them? You're not alone—but what if the greatest strength of homeschooling isn't found in t

The Homeschool Library You Already Own

I’m the mother of 15, so I’ve never had time to mess around or extra money laying around just waiting to be spent on flashy books that may never be used. (I think I see

Printers For Serious Homeschooling

What printer is best for homeschooling? Epson, HP, Brother, Canon? And what about those slave agreements to ink cartridges? After 37 years of homeschooling and decades of

Teaching Science From Nature Up

Most families have been taught that science belongs to experts, laboratories, and expensive curriculum packages. But historically, science began with observation, wonder,

The Science We Missed in School

What if science was never supposed to feel intimidating? In this episode, we uncover how modern schooling crushed natural scientific thinking, why children are born inves

Picking and Choosing History Curriculum

Why do some history books make children come alive with curiosity… while others feel like lifeless drudgery that everyone forgets five minutes later? Today we are going

The Vintage History Book That Changed My Mind

If you and your children hate history, I've got a remedy! There is a book that will rewire your thinking and give you a reason to love the subject as you never have befor

Kids Ace Pop Culture but Miss Meaning; Here’s Why

Why do kids today know all the details of pop culture, but struggle to have interest in anything worthwhile? I believe it's because conventional schooling has stripped ho

Mastering Math Without Fear

Based on a widely-circulated graduation test from 1895, children of the past routinely mastered arithmetic without overwhelm, expensive curriculum, or years of frustratio

Our Vintage Reading Program

So much harm has been done through our modern educational system. So many people are not being taught the basics. Even students who graduate with honors have trouble comp

Going Back to Simple Education For a Strong Homeschool Foundation

In 2025, the United States spent 6 percent of the Gross Domestic Product on education. Since the total GDP was 30.62 trillion dollars, that means the amount we laid out f

Why I Decided to Put God First

This world does not need more educated idiots. What is an “educated idiot” you ask? In a sense specific to our age, it is someone who jumps through all the academic hoo