Little by Little Homeschool - Homeschooling, Motherhood, Homemaking, Education, Family

As a mom with children, there is a running to-do list for all your responsibilities. Does it ever feel overwhelming? Or like you are missing major parts of what you need to keep up with?

If so, you are among most homeschool moms with juggling too much at a time. The best way to tackle things like keeping up with your home cleaning and chores is to have a system. But where to even begin?

You're in the right place. We'll start the co...

You swore that you would be the fun homeschool mom. But, then, the day in and day out struggles began and just won't let up. And you've caught yourself way too often saying and acting in a way that makes you wonder if you're pushing your kids away.

Your vision and goals for how you raise your children are admirable, but is the process of doing that sucking the joy {and maybe the life} out of you? Do you find yourself wondering if y...

In the homeschool world, it's so easy to get caught up in "shiny object syndrome." There is always something new and exciting. This could include curriculum, styles of homeschool, books, resources, and the list goes on and on.

And all of those things can have their place. But, what is more important is to stay focused on your long-range vision for these years of home educating your children.

Nicki Truesdell joins the podcast today ...

Can you even believe that the end of the homeschool year is here? Where did the time go? Well, probably to lessons and meals and bedtime stories and on and on...

When it comes to the end of a school year, moms usually have a sense of feeling ready to move on to the summer, but a lingering feeling of regret or uncertainty can hang overhead. What if, instead of focusing on the "if I only," you decided to be intentional about looking ...

Homeschool parents jump into homeschooling with high hopes and expectations and an "ignorance is bliss" mentality. And there is nothing wrong with that. That was totally me.

But, along the way, as the years go by, we grow in knowledge and experience about how to home educate.

Today's episode is me pulling back the curtain and showing you some of the things that I wish I had done differently. Yes, our missteps grow us into the homes...

There are definitely some homeschool years that are more difficult than others. But, as a whole, most should be pretty good years of home educating your children.

The problem is when moms expect a year to be amazing, but don't put in the necessary time for it to be amazing. It doesn't matter what your style of homeschool, if you aren't intentional, you're missing out.

And I most certainly don't want you to miss out on some really g...

Do you struggle with how to meet the individual needs and uniqueness of your homeschooled child? You aren't alone. As homeschool moms, we're told we need to do this, but then don't have any direction of what that looks like.

Today's guest, Lisa Nehring, is here to encourage you in the small and big picture of helping each of your children feel equipped to step out into the world after graduation. Lisa is the founder of True North H...

As a homeschool mom, you've got a ton of decisions to make every single day. And those range from what to make for dinner, what subjects you'll cover, to what you're even going to wear that day...or if you even have time to get dressed.

Each decision can be reactive and made in a fly by the seat of your pants manner or you can choose intentionality. But what does that look like in your motherhood, homeschool, and homemaking?

It too...

You're probably like me in that you attended public or private school and when your years were done with...whether that was after high school or college...you were just done with what you called education.

But now, you're starting to see that what you were really burned out with was schooling. Your heart wants to turn the tide with your children and now that you have a love of learning, you want them to value education as well.

Thi...

You want to be the fun homeschool mom, but there is a whole list of curriculum to-do's that you want to check off the list. None of these goals are bad, but do they allow time for other important things in your homeschool?

There can be a happy medium to being a strict planner or loosey-goosey with your homeschool. And it's also okay to lean more towards one end or the other.

Let's find that sweet spot that helps you accomplish the ...

The raising of children, tending to the home, educating the next generation and all the big and little in between is all consuming for a season of life. There are some hard days and trials for a homeschool mom, but that doesn't mean those days are for naught...or even bad.

Today's guest, Abbie Halberstadt, from M Is For Mama, is here to encourage you as you face the ups and downs of your day to day life. Using her own life experien...

The ups and downs of life are inevitable. It happened prior to homeschooling and prior to even having children. Why should life be any different now?

Well, it kind of is since you are now providing for your children's education and have little people who rely upon you 24/7.

What should a homeschool mom do when faced with little and big interruptions, life events, tragedies, and all that occurs in between? What happens to those home...

Even with millions more homeschoolers this year than ever before, what you are doing is still seen as counter-cultural. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of people and things calling you to focus your heart and time elsewhere.

Along with the decision to homeschool came the decision to focus on raising your children and creating the family that reflects your values and goals. But it's really easy to get sidetracked with "shiny obje...

Once you decide to homeschool, it can be easy to get stuck in a rut of how you homeschool. Sometimes the best intentions fall by the wayside and you can very easily just homeschool out of a habit.

There is a better way to order your days, choose your curriculum, and educate your children. But, it involves stepping away from a few wrong ways you've been approaching homeschool.

I promise this episode is definitely not all doom and gl...

The default for homeschool is to focus so much on the curriculum and formal education that it's easy to forget "the other stuff." But the truth is, children can learn so much more from their years of homeschool than just the school part of it.

Today's guest, Sonya Shafer, of Simply Charlotte Mason will encourage you to not forego the other parts of homeschooling, like character building. She breaks down the process of instilling go...

There are so many inputs homeschool moms get about what to do and what not to do. And that list could be really long...but it also depends upon a person's opinions and their preferences.

Today, I want to offer you 3 things that can easily get pushed aside each day as a stay at home mom who homeschools. The major to-do's are put on the top of the list, but I want to offer you a few that your heart is probably wanting, but you might ...

Diet culture has really messed with many women for way too many years. I fell into the trap of believing whatever the latest trends were. And consistently, I didn't feel or look any better.

The ups and downs of the messaging women receive is so confusing and leads many of us to wish we had a different body and could just lose weight.

Today, I am sharing a little from a lifelong journey and the major takeaways I've discovered in the...

Have you ever stressed about your homeschool budget? Or wondered if it was enough to educate your children?

These are completely normal concerns and more of us have these thoughts than we will admit to. To be honest, whether your budget is $100 or $1000, homeschool moms are going to question if it is enough.

But I think that it is a good idea to be conscientious of a budget and use our finances wisely, no matter what the dollar fig...

To varying degrees, moms all deal with anger and possibly even rage. This is followed by guilt and shame. But what if there were options to preventing your outbursts and managing your anger?

Elizabeth Andreyevskiy of Emotionally Health Legacy is an anger and stress management coach for Christian moms. By sharing her story, she now supports stressed Christian moms in overcoming anger and embracing emotional stability, empowering the...