Homeschool Glue | Balance & Intentional Motherhood for Homeschool Moms
Homeschooling can be messy, sticky, and chaotic (just like glue), but it also can be incredibly beautiful and rewarding. In this podcast, Sarah shares about intentional motherhood, balance for a homeschooling mom, tips and tricks for staying sane when constantly surrounded by kids, and ideas for "gluing" your entire family together within your homeschool.
Episodes
34 episodes
34 || Today I'm Answering All YOUR Questions!
Every once in a while it's fun to switch things up and answer some of your questions on the podcast! Over on Instagram, I encouraged followers to submit questions, and submit they did! In this episode I'm answering questions like, "...
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33 || What Are You Running From in Your Homeschool?
Many homeschool families begin their journey because they realize, either before sending their kids to school or after their kids are in school, that they don't like certain aspects of the school system. Everyone's journey is different, b...
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32 || 5 Things I'm Struggling with in My Homeschool
If you follow lots of homeschooling accounts on social media, it's easy to feel like everyone else has it all together! However, like all social media, we usually are only seeing the "highlight reel" and not a true representation of a person's ...
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31 || Our Homeschool Plans with New Baby
For most people, it's the holiday season, but for us, we are in full baby mode with just a few weeks left to go before baby boy (our fourth child) is due! With a major (beautiful, amazing) interruption smack dab in the middle of our schoo...
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30 || How to Fit in One-on-One Time in Your Homeschool (& Why It Matters)
As homeschool parents, it's easy to assume we are already giving our kids tons of quality time because we spend so many more hours with them each day than we would if they went to school outside of the home. But, how often are we spending...
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29 || 15 EASY Ways to Incorporate Christmas into Your Homeschool
Many families like to devote a few weeks into December to following a Christmas curriculum, but alternatively, many families don't have the time, patience, money, or resources to do this. However, there are SO many ways to bring the spiri...
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28 || Daily Habits for a Happier Homeschool
Because our homeschool is more of a lifestyle than a place our kids go to learn, and because we are with our children so much, it's so easy for negative moods, hard times, hard current events, illnesses, and so much more negatively impact our h...
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27 || How to Make $$$ While You Homeschool
I recently had a spirited conversation in the comments of an Instagram reel with someone who believed that for most people, homeschooling is just impossible because both parents need to work. I tried to explain that upwards of a third of ...
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26 || Why are the "Riches” Important & How Do We Fit Them In?
What are the riches? Why are they important if most educations today don't include them? And once we deem them important, how do we fit them in on top of everything else?I'm answering all these questions in today's episode!<...
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25 || Our Fall Rhythm for Balancing Work + Homeschool
The new school year is just around the corner so I suppose it’s time to start thinking about what our school rhythm will be! I always find it so interesting how other people (especially working homeschool parents) fit everything in, so I ...
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24 || 20 Things I Would Tell Myself if Starting Over Again
I’m definitely not at the end of my homeschooling journey – with baby 4 on the way I have another 18 years to go – but I have definitely learned a thing or two (or 20) that I would want to tell myself if I was starting again. So, if you a...
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23 || How to Implement a Morning Time in Your Homeschool
No matter how early or late into your homeschool journey you are, how old your kids are, or how much time you spend homeschooling each day – it is never too late to start a family morning time routine in your homeschool!Our morning time ...
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22 || How Next School Year will Change with a New Baby
We learned in late May we are expecting baby #4. This was definitely a surprise baby as we had convinced ourselves we were happy with three kids because I get SO sick during pregnancy. Well, God had other plans and now we are having...
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21 || How to Thrive as an INTROVERTED Homeschool Mom
The reality of homeschooling for an introverted mom, or just being a mom in general, with so many needs, so many sounds, so many behaviors to help regulate, so many emotions, so much touching, and being pulled in a million directions can be EXC...
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20 || How We Do a Daily Quiet Time and Why We Love It
Juggling the demands of homeschooling and homemaking (and many time working) can be a real circus act sometimes if I'm being honest! As a former daycare provider who used to watch 10 kids (including my own) 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, ...
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19 || How We Are Homeschooling This Summer
Last week, I shared a recap of our homeschool choices we used this current school year and shared what we will be using for next year, but we have a solid 3 months in between the school years. So, what are we doing this summer in our home...
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18 || How This Year Went + What We are Using Next School Year!
If you haven’t figured out a plan for next school year – why are you here listening to me?!? Just kidding – whether you’ve figured out your plan for next year or not, I always find it fun and interesting to learn about what other families...
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17 || 6 Ways I Made Homeschooling Easier (& You Can, Too!)
Homeschooling can be really hard. There, I said it. Sure, it can be magical, it leads to some amazing moments, we get to bond with our kids, we see things we wouldn’t see if they were away from us 7 hours a day. But, it can al...
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16 || Everything Society Believes about Homeschooling is WRONG
I’ve apparently struck a chord over on Instagram with what I guess are my controversial views on education. I have some reels skyrocketing in views and comments that I didn’t anticip...
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15 || How to Homeschool Year-Round without Changing Your Schedule
There are SO many benefits to homeschooling year round, but for many of us homeschooling moms, we want a BREAK! I am one of those moms, trust me! But I also don't want my kids to experience the end of summer dread heading back into ...
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14 || What is "Homeschool Glue" & Why Did I Change My Name?
If you’ve been listening for a while, I’m sure this podcast looks and sounds just a little bit different than you are used to! That’s because I have rebranded and today I’m going to be talking all about why and what this new launch and re...
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13 || How I Created My Homeschool Mom Tribe (& You Can, Too)
I went to an amazing Charlotte Mason homeschool retreat recently and am on such a high from spending my day with a few of my friends in my homeschool “tribe,” surrounded by other like-minded homeschooling moms, learning about how we can b...
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12 || How to Homeschool During a Crisis
I wish I could tell you that your role as a homeschooling mom will protect you from any major hardship, crisis, or tragedy to happen to you, but life happens whether we are homeschooling or not. I went through an extremely traumatic year ...
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11 || How I Spent Less than $300 on our Homeschool This Year
Homeschooling can EASILY become extremely expensive with books, curricula, materials, manipulatives, online resources, extracurriculars, co-ops, etc. But it doesn't HAVE to be! And guess what? Spending more money on your child...
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10 || What I’m Loving (& Hating) This Year || Mid-Year Curriculum Review
We are halfway through the school year, so naturally, I’m reflecting on what is working well this year and what I might want to change for next year. I have a 3rd grader, kindergartener, and 3 year old this year and am overall loving the ...
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