The Homeschool How To
I don't claim to know anything about homeschooling, so I set out on a journey to ask the people who do! Join me as I chat with homeschoolers to discuss; "why are people homeschooling," "what are all the ways people are using to homeschool today," and ultimately, "should I homeschool my kids?"
Episodes
238 episodes
My Child Didn't Read Until Age 10. Why I Stopped Worrying About Grade Levels.
What if your child isn't reading when you thought they would? What if they're not keeping up with the curriculum? What if you're starting to wonder whether you're actually doing enough?That's exactly where this conversation goes.B...
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#186: What Happens When You Stop Making School the Center of Childhood?
My guests this week, Owen and Christina, have five kids—and their family's answer to that question took them much farther than they ever expected.It started with something surprisingly simple: their son wanted another thing.. "t...
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What 200 Homeschool Families Taught Me About How Kids Really Learn
What does your child actually need to learn—and how much formal homeschooling do they really need?When I started The Homeschool How To Podcast, I wasn't even sure I was going to homeschool my own kids. I had a lot of the same fears so ma...
#184: How Teaching Public & Private School Led Her to Homeschool
Her son was all set to graduate from her homeschool and become a master mechanic — and then he enlisted in the Marines a month before he turned 18.Christina Franco from Rooted Home Life joins Cheryl this week. She's a former public and p...
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#183: Leaving It All for Life on a Bus... Three Years Later, Do They Regret It?
What happens when a former public school teacher sells everything to homeschool from a bus?Three years after her first appearance on the podcast, Jennifer Gossett is back with an incredible update.Since we last spoke, her f...
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#182: They Left Germany Because Homeschooling Was Illegal | Worldschooling Across Europe
Can you really homeschool while traveling the world? What if homeschooling was actually illegal where you lived?In this episode of The Homeschool How To Podcast, Cheryl sits down with Stacy, a homeschooling mom, worldschooler, and resili...
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#181: It's Not the Curriculum, It's the Brain: A Cognitive Psychologist on Why Reading Programs Fail
What do you do when the school waits until the night before the last day of school to tell you your child is failing — and it turns out they broke his own IEP to do it? Dr. Amy Moore joins Cheryl this week. She's a cognitive psychol...
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#180: Why This Former Teacher Had to Unlearn Everything
What if the best thing you could do for your homeschool is put the worksheet down?In this episode of The Homeschool How To Podcast, Cheryl sits down with Kaitlin Zara, former public school teacher, homeschool mom of two boys, and ...
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#179: You DON'T Need to Have It All Figured Out to Homeschool | Chad Hufford
What if the biggest thing standing between you and homeschooling isn't your ability...it's your belief that you have to get everything right?In this episode of The Homeschool How To Podcast, Cheryl sits down with Chad Hufford
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#178: A Mother’s Wake-Up Call About Bullying And SEL
When Ali Johnson’s teenage daughter started saying she didn’t want to go to school, Ali initially thought she was dealing with normal middle school conflict.Then everything changed.After a serious accusation from two students, the...
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#177: The Truth About Leaving a Successful Career to Homeschool
What happens when you've built everything you thought you wanted... and realize it's no longer the life you want?In this episode, I sit down with Ceci Washington, entrepreneur, business mentor, and homeschooling mom, to talk about the de...
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#176: What If Your "Imperfect" Homeschool Is Actually Enough? | Jennifer Pepito
Are you constantly wondering..."Am I doing enough?"It's one of the biggest fears homeschool parents carry—and after nearly 30 years homeschooling seven children, Jennifer Pepito has a very different perspective.In th...
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#175: Former Teachers Reveal: Your Kid Only Gets 7 Minutes of 1-on-1 Time in School
Two former public school teachers — and twin sisters — pull back the curtain on what really happens in a classroom of 25+ kids, including the one statistic that will change how you think about homeschooling forever. Kathy and Melissa share why ...
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#174: The World Schooling Dad Who Says American Education Is Getting It Wrong
Rapkat was born in northwest China, fled to Malaysia at five, landed in Brooklyn, bounced through public, private, and charter school, married at seventeen, attended a coding bootcamp, got a remote software engineering job — and has been homesc...
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#173: When the Right School Didn't Exist, They Built It. Here's How.
What happens when two parents with a 70-acre property, a wedding venue, and a 2% chance of having children decide the local school system just isn't good enough for their girls? They build something better from scratch.In this episode, C...
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#172: They Didn't Want Smart Kids — The Truth About How Public School Was Designed | Nicki Truesdell
What if the problems in public school weren't accidents? What if low literacy rates, changing math standards, social emotional learning, and ideological curriculum were all part of a plan that started over a hundred years ago?This week C...
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#171: Homeschool Mom of 5 Gets Real About the Chaos — Multiple Ages, One Income, and Starting a Business
What does it actually look like to homeschool five kids across wildly different ages — while running a business, managing a rambunctious toddler, and doing it all on one income?This week I'm joined by Amanda, a homeschool mom of five fr...
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#170: They Shut Down Her Classroom Because Kids Were Getting Too Much Help
Elyse Scheeler spent years inside the public school system as a speech language pathologist. She had a classroom full of kids making real, measurable progress. The district shut it down — not because anything was wrong, but because her program ...
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#169: Homeschooled, Sheltered & Addicted Young: A Conversation Every Parent Needs to Hear
What happens when someone who hated being homeschooled grows up and chooses to homeschool his own children anyway?In this deeply honest conversation, Logan Hufford shares what homeschooling looked like growing up in a large family in the...
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#168: Homeschooling Through Grief: A Former Teacher's Raw and Honest Story
What happens when life completely falls apart — and you still have to show up for your kids? This week Cheryl sits down with Barbara, a former special education teacher turned homeschool mom of four, who opens up about one of the hardest questi...
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#167: When the School Said 'Behind' — One Mom Said 'Watch Me'
What happens when a single mom in the Foreign Service gets the double whammy — "your child might have dyslexia" AND profound hearing loss? She figures it out. Katharyn Havens joins Cheryl from outside Nairobi, Kenya, where she's running a multi...
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#166: How Homeschooling Her Only Child Turned Him Into a 9-Year-Old Author & Stock Trader
Most parents ask, “Can I homeschool if I still need to work?”Laresia and her family didn’t just ask that question—they built a life that answers it.In this episode, we talk about what happens when you choose homeschooling...
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#165: She Left Teaching, Bought Houses Without a Bank, and Homeschools 2 Kids
Last week, we heard why teachers are leaving the system. This week, meet one who did — and what she built instead.Jen Delle Fave spent 8 years as a public school English teacher in upstate New York before walking away to raise her kids, ...
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#164: Teachers Are Leaving the System—Here’s Why (Homeschool + Work Reality)
What happens when a former public school teacher decides she won’t send her own kids to school?In this episode of the Homeschool How To Podcast, Cheryl sits down with Ashley Martinez—a former teacher turned homeschooling mom of ...
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#163: The More Self-Sufficient You Are, the Less You Need School
In this episode, we step outside the traditional conversation around education and take a deeper look at something bigger—how we’re raising our kids in today’s world.Cheryl sits down with Doug Evans, founder of The Sprouting Compa...
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