The Home School Conversation Podcast (Exploring the homeschool perspective)

I got to interview five teenage boys who were or are currently homeschooled . I asked them all the awkward questions and they answered with their raw honest truths about their homeschooling experience .

In this episode my 9 year old shares all that he’s learning through playing football both on the field and in video game format . If you’ve ever been skeptical about the power of sports - I encourage you to listen in to this conversation in which I share resources and perspective to help you see the powerful educational value in sports .

Warning : This was an impromptu , raw unedited and unplanned interview with my third and first grader sharing their point of view about homeschooling . It’s packed with advice , ideas and thoughts right from the mouth of two kids. Try not to laugh when my son talks about “torture-schooling” 🤣

In this episode, I will interview an unschooling mom who has successfully sent her kids to college, one of whom is a teen in college and another who was accepted to UC Berkley. I mean - talk about a homeschool success story! Listen in as this mom shares how she unschooled her children and successfully prepared them for their future in college WITHOUT a curriculum,

I am still dancing around my house over this interview with the one and only Julie Bogart.
In this episode of "The Home school Conversation Podcast," I will interview the famous veteran home school mom and guru, Julie Bogart who created The Home school Alliance which is now the Brave Learner Home which is a home school support system with book clubs, discussion boards, and curriculum help. She also has continued to improve her writing curriculum, "Brave Writer" to help families develop their best language arts approach in their home school. Julie is also the author of the home school book loved by ALL, "The Brave Learner" and "A Gracious Space". Julie also has an amazingly insightful podcast that has been a source of encouragement to many homeschooling families called, "A Brave Writers Life in Brief" and I am not hired by her to say that I highly recommend all of the above! It has changed my homeschooling LIFE.
In this episode, we will explore her new support system for the home school community, and also explore curriculum decision paralysis, how to value a lifestyle of learning and dive into examples of how we have learned to truly enjoy learning with our children.

In this episode we will discuss all of the most popular ways that homeschoolers use their charter school funds .

Schedules can be hard to stick to when you become a homeschool family , and it seems silly because naturally you have more time then when you were in school. In this episode I explain why schedules can harbor disappointment and how a routine can work better , as well as sharing my own personal approach to homeschool routine while balancing toddlers .

In this episode , I interview my husband who was actually the individual behind motivating me to homeschool when I was completely against it! We will talk about how dads can get involved in the homeschool journey in a small creative way despite the busy work schedule , and you will get to hear all about why this dad is a fan of skipping the curriculum option altogether!

The most commons question I get as a homeschooler is about curriculum . In this episode I briefly touch on why there is no magic bullet of a curriculum snd how we actually homeschool without a curriculum (legally )