Episodes

  • You can teach a foreign language!

    You can teach a foreign language!
    Dec 23 2025
    Does the thought of teaching a foreign language in your homeschool intimidate you? Join us as Laura Councell gives us tips, ideas, and resources for learning with your children, using familiar books translated into another language and adding just a few phrases at a time. You will be inspired to wade in at the shallow end and give it a try.

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    38 mins
  • Tell Your Stories!

    Tell Your Stories!
    Dec 17 2025
    In this episode, Renee and Karen chat with guest, Holly Schurter, long-time storyteller and great-grandmother, about how telling our stories builds a rich family culture and reminds us that grace is in the everyday. Follow her on Substack to read her articles!

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    32 mins
  • Teaching Science in the Kitchen

    Teaching Science in the Kitchen
    Dec 9 2025

    Angela Smith, founder of Inquisicook, an online culinary arts and science program for students ages 12 and up, joins Renee and Karen to chat about the science of cooking and about encouraging your children to help you in the kitchen. It may get messy, but the benefits to your child's formation and your family culture are immeasurable. Angela also shares that Inquisicook Jr. is coming soon. Listen to hear how it could enrich your children's education.


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    29 mins
  • Keeping Spirits Bright

    Keeping Spirits Bright
    Dec 2 2025
    It's Christmas Time, and we know so much rests on mom to make it all happen: shopping, wrapping, baking, decorating... Renee and Karen offer ideas and tips to help keep the season stress-free and to enjoy your family traditions with a joyful spirit.

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    27 mins
  • Talking Poetry with Christine Perrin

    Talking Poetry with Christine Perrin
    Nov 25 2025
    In this episode, friend and colleague in the world of classical education, mom and grandmother, teacher and poet, Christine Perrin, joins us for a discussion on how to foster a love of poetry in our children. She says that the experience of poetry comes before the analysis of it, she offers tips on how to jump into the world of poetry, and she shares her favorite volumes and poets with us.

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    39 mins
  • Life at Home After High School

    Life at Home After High School
    Nov 18 2025
    Katie Carrillo, mother of three daughters and head mentor of the Gulf Coast Apprenticeship, joins Renee and Karen to discuss living the good life with children living at home after high school. Our culture tells us that our child needs to create his or her own life at eighteen years old. But what if college or moving out of the family home is not what your child desires? Katie offers her story with her daughters and offers advice for navigating these years.

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    32 mins
  • How Music Trains the Senses to Delight in Beauty

    How Music Trains the Senses to Delight in Beauty
    Nov 11 2025
    Listen as Renee and Karen chat with guest John Hodges, teacher, musician, composer, and director of The Center for Western Studies. John explains, as Plato said, that the purpose of music is to cause us to delight in beauty and the harmonious things. We discuss learning to play instruments, and John offers musical selections that you can find to enjoy with your children. To find out more about his gap year program, go to centerws.com

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    38 mins
  • The Power of Music to Impact Your Children and Your Homeschool

    The Power of Music to Impact Your Children and Your Homeschool
    Nov 4 2025
    Join us as we chat with Laura Councell about the effects that music, instrumental and vocal, can have on your children's souls, minds, and bodies. Laura holds a doctorate in music and is a homeschooling mother to three children ages 2,5, and 8. Her son, Harry, is a special needs child, and Laura describes how song has been life-giving for him. Listen and be inspired and encouraged by Laura's story.

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    33 mins