Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast

Is God calling you to homeschool?  I bet you have all kinds of reasons you think you can't.   Is God calling you to continue homeschooling?  I'm sure you have all kinds of excuses why it's time to move on and put the kids in traditional school.  "I can't homeschool because I'm not a teacher." "I can't homeschool.  I'm hate math." "I can&a...

Welcome to Summer and to a much-deserved summer break!  Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Help Podcast is launching a special Summertime Series for current homeschooling moms and for moms praying about homeschooling next year.  Listen to CWC's Summertime Series on the beach, on road trips, and on nature hikes. The series is filled with things you can do this summer to encourage learning all summ...

What in the world is Strewing?  Well, it is something that will rock your homeschooling world and mindset!  Actually, you might already be a Master at Strewing and don't even know it.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares how strewing can be an easy way to ignite your children’s passions, whet their appetites, and spark their curiosity.   Carrie will give ideas on how to help your child...

Join Carrie this week for a little coffee break that comes with a much-needed pep talk and long-overdue reality check.  In this week's episode, Carrie explains why it is so important we get back to normal and gives four crucial ways to do it.  Carrie shares her heart about the importance of giving each other choices and grace and the dangers of accepting this "new homeschooling normal&qu...

Make this week's Coffee With Carrie Podcast a priority.  It will be the best 15 fifteen minutes of homeschooling advice you will receive.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee.  Leave your guilt, worries, and stress in the other room, and then turn on  "Home School Hindsight."  As Carrie prepares to graduate her last homeschooler, she shares advice she would have given her younger (and mor...

This week, Carrie shares the last session from the CWC Special Weekend for Homeschooling Moms that was held back in March.  As requested by the moms in attendence, Carrie turned the "Simplification Principle:  How to Apply It to Your Homeschooling" session into this week's podcast.  In this episode, Carrie shares the acronym  S.I.M.P.L.I.F.Y as a way to help moms simplify their live...

If you couldn't attend our Special Weekend for Homeschooling Moms, you can still hear the talks presented on Saturday!  The event was not live streamed, but Carrie recorded the sessions at the request of the moms in attendance.    This week's episode is the first session on Saturday morning entitled, "Hannah's Hope:  Having Hope in a Hopeless World."  In this week's p...

In this week's episode, Carrie continues her informal conversation and Q & A session.  In the last episode, Carrie began answering all of the questions you submitted through Facebook, Instagram, and email.   In Part 2, Carrie shares ideas on how to homeschool the strong-willed child, how do you know you are teaching enough, how to take an extended break without the guilt, how to connect a...

Join us this week for an informal conversation and Q & A session with Carrie.  In this week's coffee break, Carrie answers all of the questions you submitted through Facebook, Instagram, and email.  Carrie shares her thoughts and insights in two episodes.  In Part 1, Carrie discusses everything from homeschooling little ones and getting organized to winning over homeschool critics, gettin...

Spending time with other moms is essential!  It is vital for our survival as we live out our ministry of motherhood and our calling to homeschool.  In this week's podcast, Carrie explains how spending time with other homeschooling moms needs to be and should be a priority.  Carrie also shares what she and her friends have planned for this year's Special Weekend for Homeschooling Moms.  T...

To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question!   If you are thinking, "There’s no way I can teach Shakespeare to my kids!" or "There is no way my kids will enjoy learning about Shakespeare and his plays.  I don't understand him.  How in the world will my little guys get it?" then you need to join Carrie for this week's little coffee break.  Yes!  You can...

Do you have a love/hate relationship with science?  Maybe you are looking for ways to make science more interactive and hands-on this month. 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. Perhaps this podcast will help you fall in love with teaching science!  With Valentine’s in th...

Do you need a "do-over" this week or a fresh start this year?  If so, then join Carrie for a little coffee break and some encouragement from God's Word.  In this week's episode, Carrie digs deep into the Book of Ruth and shares five powerful lessons on new beginnings and "do-overs."  Carrie focuses on Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, and the many lessons we can from...

Do you really think Carrie is suggesting you take an entire year off of homeschooling???  Well, maybe she is and maybe God is calling you to take a drastic and daring approach to the second half of your school year.  Perhaps God is calling you and your family to take a sabbatical year.   It's not as radical as it sounds.  Sabbaticals are actually biblical.  Admit it!  You know you are a bit i...

Happy New Year!  Is your new year's resolution to ditch all of the distance learning in 2021?  If so, then grab a cup of coffee and join Carrie for this week's coffee break!  If you are tired of Zoom classes and being tethered to a computer screen and someone else's schedule all day long, then join Carrie this week.  Distance learning is not for everyone.  A virtual environment for...

2020 has been a year of answered prayers!  On January 1st, Carrie's prayer for the new year was that God would give us 20/20 vision in 2020.  Carrie prayed for God to give us a clear vision, to give us spiritual insight, to help us see things the way God sees them, and to reveal the hidden, reveal the things we needed to know, reveal the things we needed to see, and reveal things we didn’t un...

What is Advent and how can you use the season of Advent to focus on the true meaning of Christmas?  In this week's episode, Carrie shares some simple ways to keep Jesus at the center of your Christmas preparations and to perhaps start the tradition of celebrating Advent.  Did you know that the season of Advent is two-fold?  It celebrates the first coming of Jesus, his birth, and Jesus' i...

Guarding Hearts & Minds: One Dryer Sheet at a Time.  Carrie has yet another embarassing homeschooling moment to share!  There is a point and a few great homeschooling lessons to learn. In this week's podcast, Carrie shares four simple and easy ways to guard the hearts and minds of our children and how to protect ourselves from letting anger, bitterness, and unforgiveness fester and consum...

This Thanksgiving, what can we learn from Joshua, the crossing of the Jordan River, and the memorial of stones erected on the West Bank by the Israelites?  In this week's episode, Carrie digs deep into Joshua 4 and shares how to apply the principles to our homeschooling and to our Thanksgiving celebrations.  This podcast is also full of engaging, fun, and meaningful activities that can be don...

Carrie kicks off Season 2 of Coffee With Carrie Podcast by sharing the secret of how to go from being a good homeschooling mom to a great homeschooling mom!  Carrie talks about the qualifications needed to teach your own at home as well as four simple (and joyful) ways to be the best teacher possible.  Put your feet up, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and join Carrie for this little coffee break. ...

What?  Take a whole week off of academics and formal lessons to rest, relax, and reset?  You read that right!  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Carrie for a little coffee break.  In this week's podcast, Carrie shares how to apply the Sabbath Principle to your yearly homeschool calendar.  In Carrie's new book, Just Breathe (& Take a Sip of Coffee):  Homeschool...

Carrie gets real this week!  In this week's podcast, Carrie unapologetically shares the importance, the need, and the dangers of swimming against the current by going against the world's dangerous ideologies and its godless educational agendas.  Christians and homeschooling moms need to stand firm on God's Word and live in a counter-culture way in order to face and defeat society&ap...

You don't want to miss this week's episode!  Carrie shares her top five Epic Homeschooling Failures and her worst mommy moments.  Instead of sharing this week, advice on what to do this homeschooling school year, Carrie shares from her heart what NOT to do.  Through her heart-felt confessions and by revealing some of her most embarrassing moments, you will not only be encouraged, but you...

Elisha's servant saw a multitude of enemies. Elisha's enemies saw an empty hill.  But Elisha saw a powerful angelic army ready for battle!  Join Carrie for an encouraging word from 2 Kings 6.  This week, Carrie unpacks the story of Elisha, his servant, and the events in 2 Kings 6:8-23 and how the many lessons and principles in this passage can be applied to our lives, our homeschooling,...

The ministry of motherhood is a blessing and a gift, but it can also be a bit challenging.  If you add the calling to homeschool, then you just kicked it up a notch!  Does God call us to be teacher of the year, super mom, and child psychologist extraordinaire?  Well, that would be a big fat NO!  However, God does call us to be faithful.  Join Carrie for Part 4 of the "Start the School Year St...