Latest Home education Education for Kids Podcast Episodes

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The Only Curriculum You Need: A Conversation with Erin McGhee

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - April 11, 2024 12:00 - 38 minutes
Are you a slave to your teacher's guide?   Are you in a "curriculum cult"?  If you are overwhelmed with curriculum choices, or if your bank account is overloaded with curriculum expenses, then take a little coffee break.  You can successfully homeschool with only 3 things!  What are those 3 thin...

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Start Your Homeschool Day Off Right: Family Devotional Resources

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - April 04, 2024 12:00 - 22 minutes
Any day is a good homeschooling day if you start in God's Word.  God's Word will not come back void!  Even five minutes a day reading and reflecting on God's Word will bless you and your family.  Keep Bible time or family devotion time simple.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares some of her f...

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Homeschooling is Holy Ground: Lessons Learned From Moses

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - March 28, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutes
As a mother and home educator, you are standing on holy ground.  Motherhood and homeschooling is a calling.  They come with many blessings and challenges.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares how to dig deep into God's Word and how to study the Bible using the 3 Question Method.  All that is n...

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Raising Prayerful Kids: A Conversation with Steph Thurling & Sarah Holmstrom

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - March 21, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutes
Praying with your kids can be a time of connection and fun.  In this week's episode, Carrie talks with Steph Thurling & Sarah Holmstrom, the authors of Raising Prayerful Kids:  Fun and Easy Activities for Building Lifelong Habits of Prayer about how to  make prayer fit naturally into your daily ...

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Balancing Homeschooling, Health, & Work: A Conversation with Evgeniia Arasim

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - March 14, 2024 12:00 - 38 minutes
This week Carrie continues her discussion on how to balance life and homeschooling.  In this week's episode, Carrie focuses on balancing  health, work, and homeschooling.  Carrie sits down with Evgeniia Arasim, a holistic health coach and creator of the Nourished Motherhood Program.  Evgeniia sh...

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Balancing Homeschooling & Homemaking: It is Possible!

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - March 07, 2024 13:00 - 25 minutes
How do you homeschool and get all of the chores and errands done too?  It is definetely balancing act!  In this week's episode, Carrie shares eight simple tips for balancing homemaking with homeschooling.  It is doable!  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up and join Carrie for little ...

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The 5 Big Ideas of Charlotte Mason: A Conversation With Leah Boden

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - February 29, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes
Carrie has a special treat for you this week!  She is talking with Leah Boden, also known as Modern Miss Mason.  Leah is the author of Modern Miss Mason:  Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You & Your Children Learn & Grow Together and the host of...

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Five Minute Art Studies: Charlotte Mason Inspired

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - February 22, 2024 13:00 - 19 minutes
In this week's podcast, Carrie shares how to do simple and engaging art history lessons in five minutes. What are art studies?  Since we are created in God's image, we have a natural desire to create too.  Learning about different artists and their artwork is just another way to bring beauty int...

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Homeschooling With Grace: Revisited

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - February 15, 2024 13:00 - 22 minutes
What is one of the hardest things about motherhood and homeschooling?  It is extending (and receiving) undeserved grace.  God calls us to give to others the kind of grace He so graciously gives us.  In this week's episode, Carrie is full of candid confessions and transparent talk about being a h...

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The Mid Year Slump: Finding the Door in the February Wall

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - February 08, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes
The midyear slump is real!  Every year for almost twenty years of homeschooling, Carrie hit what she called the “February Wall.” If you have been homeschooling for at least a year, you know that "wall" and you know how hard it is to scale it this time of the year.  There's no need to scale the F...

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Letters From a Mother's Heart: A Few Lovely Traditions

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - February 01, 2024 13:00 - 13 minutes
It is officially February!  Since we are in the season of love and showing others how much we love them, Carrie is feeling a bit nostalgic these days as her adult kids are living their lives and doing what they love.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares two special traditions she had with her ...

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The 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Homeschool Mom

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - January 25, 2024 13:00 - 21 minutes
Do you have a calm, cool, and collected homeschool friend?  Do you know her secret?  She probably has cultivated seven simple habits into her homeschooling routine.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares the 7 habits that all highly effective homeschool moms possess and how you can cultivate the...

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A Handbook for Homeschooling High School

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - January 18, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes
Just breathe… You can homeschool the high school years (and enjoy it too)!  Carrie's new book, Homeschooling High School:  A Handbook for Christian Education, will be released on March 1st, 2024!  In this week's episode, Carrie shares what is in the book, gives a sneak peek inside one of the cha...

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Your ONE Thing: Homeschool Goal Setting

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - January 11, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutes
Have you ever seen the movie, City Slickers, with Billy Crystal?  This week, Carrie shares her advice for homeschooling in 2024.  It is borrowed from Curly, the crusty old cowboy in the movie:  Focus on your ONE Thing.  In this week's episode, Carrie helps you figure out what is your one thing a...

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Cultivating Friendships: A Conversation with Torri Oglesby

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - January 04, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes
Moms need real friends on this journey of motherhood and homeschooling. As moms, we may be in different seasons and on different journeys, but we all need a place to belong.  God didn't expect us to do this life alone.  In the first episode of 2024,  Carrie has a transparent (and fun) conversati...

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200th Episode: The Tables Are Turned!

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - December 28, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes
Carrie is celebrating Coffee With Carrie Homeschool Podcast's 200th episode with a fun reversal!  The tables are turned!  This week, Carrie is the guest, and her friend, Nicole Skeber, a long-time listener and Coffee With Carrie follower, interviews her instead.  Get the T on Carrie!  In this we...

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Epiphany: Celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - December 21, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes
In this week's episode, Carrie gives you permission to put off taking down those decorations a few days more, to start lessons a little later in January, and to keep celebrating Christmas a little longer.  Don't just sing the Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," go ahead and celebrat...

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The Attributes of God: A Conversation With Kristi Menashe

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - December 14, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes
Taking time to reflect on the character and nature of God is vital to our spiritual growth.  Praying the attributes of God is a simple way to worship and deepen your relationship with the Lord.  In this week's episode, Carrie talks with Kristi Menashe, author of Faithful & True:  Devotions & Pra...

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The Coffee House: A Special Episode

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - December 07, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes
This week's episode is a little different.  Carrie has exciting news to share!    The Coffee House:  What is it and How Can You Join?   Just Breathe... & Simplify Your Homeschooling Events:  What are they and Where can you participate? In this special episode, Carrie shares her heart behind c...

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Christmas Nature Studies

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - November 30, 2023 14:00 - 17 minutes
This December, put all of your books away except for your watercolors and nature journals.  Christmas is the perfect time of the year to be outdoors and to do some winter nature studies.  There is nothing like fresh air and God’s creation to help us slow down and re-center our focus on the reaso...

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Leadership Education: A Conversation With Heidi Christianson

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - November 16, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes
Most moms are familiar with different homeschooling methods such as Charlotte Mason,  classical education, and interest-led learning, but many homeschooling moms are not familiar with the Leadership Education Approach, or A Thomas Jefferson Education. In this week's episode, Carrie sits down wit...

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Homeschool On a Budget!

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - November 09, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes
Is money tight in this economy?  Don't give up on homeschooling!  Are you a single mom or living off of one income?  You can homeschool for free and on a shoestring budget!  Don't believe Carrie?  Then join her for this week's episode.  When Carrie quit her full-time job in order to homeschool h...

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Friendships & Socialization

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - November 02, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes
What are the most common questions people ask when they are thinking of homeschooling?  "If we homeschool, will my child have friends?  How will he learn to socialize?  I don't want him to be weird!"  In this week's episode, Carrie tackles one of the biggest misconceptions about homeschooling:  ...

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Entrepreneurship: The Best Math Curriculum Out There

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - October 26, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes
What is the best math curriculum out there?  Well, it doesn’t come in a curriculum box and you can't stream it online.   The most effective math curriculum is helping your kids become entrepreneurs!  The most important real-life math lessons and skills can be taught by starting and running a bus...

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My Little Black Dog: Homeschooling With Depression

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - October 19, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutes
It's hard to live life with bouts of depression.  When you add in the role of motherhood and the calling to homeschool, life can feel overwhelming.  If you suffer from feelings of depression, then this week's episode will encourage you.  Carrie talks candidly about the elephant in the room (or i...

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Another Approach to Writing: A Conversation with Millie Florence

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - October 12, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes
How do you instill a love of writing in your child?  In this week's episode, Carrie gets answers to this question from a homeschool graduate who published several novels before graduating high school. Millie Florence published her first book when she was only thirteen years old and her third boo...

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Redeeming the Locust Years: Lessons Learned From Joel

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - October 05, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutes
Do you feel like this has been a lost year? If you feel like this has been a year of wasted time, wasted effort, wasted money, or wasted tears, then be reminded that NOTHING is wasted in God’s economy.  Join Carrie as she shares encouragement from God’s Word and focuses on Joel 2:18-26.  In this...

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Simple & Stress-Free Science Studies

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - September 28, 2023 13:00 - 12 minutes
If teaching science (or even the idea of teaching science) stresses you out, then pour yourself a cup of coffee and join Carrie for a little coffee break this week.   No textbook? No problem!  In this week's podcast, Carrie shares how to plan, organize, and implement an entire year of science st...

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American Heritage Girls (AHG): A Conversation With Beverly Wolterbeek

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - September 21, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes
"I promise to love God, cherish my family, honor my country, and serve in my community."  ~ American Heritage Girls (AHG) Pledge Are you looking for a Christian scouting program for your daughter, granddaughter, or niece?  The AHG pledge sums up this Christ-centered character and leadership dev...

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Narration: The Best Homeschooling Idea Ever!

Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast - September 14, 2023 13:00 - 14 minutes
In this week's episode, Carrie shares what she thinks is the best homeschooling idea ever.  It's narration!  What is narration?  Why should you use it?  When is a good time to do it?  There's no need to overcomplicate the act of narration.  In this little coffee break, Carrie shares tips for nav...