The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast

Welcome back to The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! This week we are talking about advice we'd give to a mom who is just getting started homeschooling. We talk about everything from knowing when it's time to make the jump, to avoiding comparison, keeping things simple, and remembering what really matters most. Whether you're just considering homeschooling or have been doing it ...

Welcome back to the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! This week we're talking about knowing when to push our kids and when to back off. As homeschool parents, we all have things we believe are important for our children to learn, but what do we do when they don't enjoy them, don't want to do them, or flat-out tell us they hate school?

From math and history to music and Bib...

Welcome back to The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! Today we're joined by speaker, blogger, podcaster, and homeschool mom Nancy Manos to talk about a topic that seems to be everywhere right now: Artificial Intelligence.

We discuss the potential benefits of AI for homeschool families, from helping with lesson planning and brainstorming to preparing our kids for the future...

Welcome back to the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! This week we’re talking about a question that can be a little tricky as our kids get older: What decisions should we let our children make, and what decisions should we make for them?

Obviously, a five-year-old and a seventeen-year-old are going to have very different levels of freedom, so we’re breaking this dow...

Welcome back to the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! This week we’re talking about how to communicate your homeschool needs with your husband.

If you’re the one doing most of the homeschooling, it can sometimes be difficult to explain to your husband what you need from him. Maybe you need more help, more encouragement, more time, or maybe you just need him to under...