This year I'm doing monthly Then and Now Reflections on the podcast - looking back over my 15 year homeschooling career and sharing what I've learned along the way AND what I'd do differently if I could go back. Welcome!
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• This episode is sponsored by Sonlight K-12 Curriculum and Dyslexia Connect
• Take Jamie's quiz, What's Your Homeschool Mom Personality?

In Episode 126, you'll hear me and my daughter Trishna (20-yrs-old, homeschool graduate, special needs) discuss:

• I introduce the special guest who's new to the podcast, my daughter Trishna!
• What I feel I would change about our homeschool routine if I could go back to this point in our family's journey
• We go down the rabbit trail of remembering Trishna's favorite TV shows from this time
• Who used to do all the cooking, compared to who does it these days
• Activities that were NOT Trishna's favorite from our daily routine
• The bedtime routine that the kids loved and I found exhausting (& soon stopped!)
• My advice when it comes to using screen time for moms of littles

To read the original article I wrote in 2013 and/or check out links & photos mentioned in this episode, head here.

Listen in for a dose of homeschooling inspiration!

How often do you wish you could have a homeschool do-over? Well, now you can, through revisiting Jamie's mistakes instead of having to make your own!
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• This episode is sponsored by Ivy Kids and TJEd's Young Statesmen/Stateswomen Society!
• Take Jamie's quiz, What's Your Homeschool Mom Personality?

This year I'm doing monthly Then and Now Reflections on the podcast - looking back over my 15 year homeschooling career and sharing what I've learned along the way.

In Episode 125, you'll hear me and my son Jonathan (19-yrs-old, homeschool graduate) discuss:

• The details of our homeschool routine back with a 6, 7, and 8-year-old, having just moved to a house in the countryside
• Our experiment having "Yes" Day on Mondays
• How having greater access to nature influenced the flow of our days
• When homeschool moms manage to find time to eat
• How bloggers with three young kids have to make sure the photos in a post are "fair"
• What made this one of my favorite years of homeschooling

Come listen in and be encouraged!

To read the original article I wrote in 2012 and/or check out links mentioned in this episode, head here.

How often do you wish you could have a homeschool do-over? Well, now you can, and in the best way possible - without having to make mistakes of your own!

• This episode is sponsored by FORM Fitness!
• Take my quiz, What's Your Homeschool Mom Personality?

This year I'm doing monthly Then and Now Reflections on the podcast - looking back over my 15 year homeschooling career and sharing what I've learned along the way.

In Episode 124, listen in with me and my son Jonathan (currently 19) as we chat about the past, specifically re: 2011 in our homeschool (when he was six-years-old)!

What we remember fondly, what we'd rather not remember (LOL), and what we might do differently if we could have a do-over.

To read the original post I wrote in 2011 and/or check out links mentioned in this episode (including that circle time video, which is a doozy!), head here.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• I welcome Jonathan back to the podcast after he's been away touring with the Jonas Brothers
• my initial homeschooling philosophy of focusing on relationships rather than academics as top priority, and what I think about that now looking back
• our daily homeschool rhythm from 2011 including morning routines, books, a few structured activities, "sections" time, and what Jonathan remembers fondly (or not!)
• we reminisce about highlights of their 2011 days: walks, circle time, and the library
• how we used screens, quiet time, and outings to make it through the days
• what Jonathan thinks now about how our homeschool style has influenced him as a young adult

Listen in and be encouraged!