10 Minutes to a Better Homeschool

By Pam Barnhill

Education Kids & Family

What's 10 Minutes to a Better Homeschool about?

Pop in your earbuds and get ready to be inspired. Veteran homeschool mom and podcast host of the Your Morning Basket Podcast, Pam Barnhill unpacks how to have a better homeschool 10 minutes at a time.

Full of practical tips, stories, interviews, and inspiration 10 Minutes to a Better Homeschool is your home learning go-to show for quick, helpful information.

*Formerly the Homeschool Snapshots Podcast

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TMBH 57: How to Keep Your H...

02.03.2023

Homeschooling and housekeeping can be difficult to juggle. Hiring help, prioritizing tasks, and utilizing systems such as the Fly Lady and Clean Mama systems can be helpful when trying to keep your house clean while homeschooling. In this episode Pam ...

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02.03.2023 TMBH 57: How to Keep Your House Clean While Homeschooling Homeschooling and housekeeping can be difficult to juggle. Hiring help, prioritizing tasks, and utilizing systems such as the Fly Lady and Clean Mama systems can be helpful when trying to keep your house clean while homeschooling. In this episode Pam ...
01.27.2023 TMBH 56: Beating Cellphone Temptations for the Homeschool Mom Homeschooling can be difficult due to the distraction of cellphones. Pam offers a number of tips on how to eliminate distraction while still be available to people who need you and while honoring the fact that sometimes you just want ...
01.20.2023 TMBH 55: When You're Too Busy to Homeschool It is important for parents to be consistent in their homeschooling efforts to ensure the process runs smoothly. One way we can do this is by using a concept Pam coined called "Honoring Your School Day." Pam breaks down the ...
01.13.2023 TMBH 54: How perfectionism is destroying your homeschool consistency Pam Barnhill is here to tell homeschoolers that the answer to their homeschool problems is not a perfect curriculum or the best homeschool method. Instead, an effective homeschool depends on consistency - doing the work each day and showing up ...
11.18.2022 TMBH 53: Choosing with Best Curriculum for You with Cathy Duffy How do you choose the best curriculum? Cathy Duffy is a well know curriculum expert who homeschooled her own three sons through high school. She has since researched and written about curricula for home education since the 1980s. Since Cathy ...
11.11.2022 TMBH 52: Slowing Down Over the Holidays The Holiday Season is a great time for slowing things down a bit in your homeschool and enjoying the season. These tips and tricks will help you get rid of overwhelm and really enjoy the holidays with your family.
11.04.2022 TMBH 51: Do Grade Levels Matter in Your Homeschool? A sure way to identify a homeschooler in the wild is the slight hesitation when you ask them what grade they are in. It's not that they aren't smart enough to know, but it's that they don't care. Arbitrary grade ...
10.28.2022 TMBH 50: Rachel Figg - Easy enrichment for your homeschool As busy homeschoolers it is so easy to get caught up in checking the boxes of those ever-important skill subjects. When we do that, though, we are missing out on the opportunity to enrich our kids learning in a variety ...
10.21.2022 TMBH 49: All You See Are Edited Lives Do you ever feel like you can't measure up to all the other homeschool moms on social media? Their kids say the funniest things. Their houses are so lovely. They always do the coolest science experiments. Meanwhile your kids just ...
10.14.2022 TMBH 48: Meals and homeschooling One of the hardest things about homeschooling your kids is having to feed everyone three meals a day (Plus snacks! Oh the snacks!) day after day after day. The hunger never stops and making all the meals can easily overwhelm. ...
10.07.2022 TMBH 47: Nurturing Creativity in Your Homeschool with S.D. Smith What if you have kids who have a particular creative talent? How do you go about nurturing that talent or just creativity in general in your kids? Today I'm joined by beloved children's author S.D. Smith to chat about the ...
09.30.2022 TMBH 46: Patricia Sung - Consistently Winning the Day for Moms with (and without) ADHD For the mom who struggles with her own ADHD, she may wonder is it even possible to homeschool my own kids? Fortunately there are resources available that make it very possible. Today I am joined by ADHD coach Patricia Sung ...
09.23.2022 TMBH 45: Dennis DiNoia: How to create independent, responsible learners Want your kids to become independent learners? It's totally possible, but you won't get there overnight. Today I am joined by Dennis DeNoia from Mr. D. Math and author of the book Teach: Creating Independently Responsible Learners. Mr. D breaks ...
09.16.2022 TMBH 44: The Benefits of Homeschooling Your Special Needs Child One question we get often from moms: Is homeschooling a child with special needs possible? Can it work for my family or should I just stick with the system? In this episode of the podcast I am joined by Shawna ...
09.09.2022 TMBH 43: Come Join Us at the Beach Just 8 spots left!! We are heading to the beach this January for our first ever We Gather Together Morning Time Retreat. Join me, Gather author Heather Tully, Dawn Garrett and the team as we do Morning Time together, relax ...
09.02.2022 TMBH 42: Help! I Never Planned to Homeschool What if you always intended for your kids to go into a public or private school and somehow God called you to do something different in your home? That is exactly what happened to Ashlee Williams and her husband. Hear ...
08.26.2022 TMBH 41: Key Ingredients for a Kindergarten Plan That Works It can be one of the most exciting times of your homeschool career, and the most intimidating -- starting kindergarten! How do you know what to teach? How do you not mess this up? Take a deep breath and listen ...
08.19.2022 TMBH 40: Simplifying Your Homeschool Schedule What if there were a way to make a homeschooling schedule that you could actually follow? Well there is! We start by scheduling time and not content. Then we move on to a scheduling hack that can change the course ...
08.12.2022 TMBH 39: The Secret Sauce to Beating Homeschool Burnout Homeschool burnout happens to all of us. I'm joined today by mom of 10 Heather Tully to chat about why burnout happens, how to recognize the signs, and some tips for preventing it in our homeschools.
08.05.2022 TMBH 38: Creating an Efficient Homeschool You have lots of kids and not a lot of time. How can you create a more efficient homeschool so that you can get more things done and still have a little sanity in your day? In today's podcast I ...
07.29.2022 TMBH 37: Key Ingredients to Successfully Teaching Your Child to Read Teaching my kids to read was something I worried about before we started homeschool. I had been a high school English teacher but the idea of taking someone who can't read and helping them to make sense of what is ...
07.22.2022 TMBH 36: Jen McKinnon - The Top Five Systems for Surviving Working at Home and Homeschooling How do you work from home and homeschool if you have a set schedule that you need to follow and actually have to be on at specific times? Is it even possible to get things done for work and be ...
07.15.2022 TMBH 35: Three reasons why your child will be ready for the real world if you homeschool Let's get real. We all worry about our kids and if we are adequately preparing them for the real world. But you know what? Parents who send their kids to school also wonder if there kids are going to be ...
07.08.2022 TMBH 34: The five things you need to preschool at home This is the information I wish I had when I started homeschooling preschool over 11 years ago. It's a helpful bit of what you need, but more importantly paying attention to what you don't need to have a fulfilling preschool ...
07.01.2022 TMBH 33: Writing goals that work for your homeschool This is a special snippet from our Put Your Homeschool Year on Autopilot co-working session is a peek at how making realistic goals can shape your priorities in your homeschool. Join Pam, veteran mentor Laney Holman, and the planning moms ...
06.24.2022 TMBH 32: How to juggle life and homeschooling Our time as humans is finite. Sorry to be the one to break that to you. That means there are so many hours in a week to get the homemaking, the homeschooling, and all the other things (including a job ...
06.17.2022 TMBH 31: The myth of “planning from behind” I have a bone to pick with "planning from behind" and this show is where I'm going to do it. Find out why planning from behind isn't actually planning at all, what it REALLY is, why it's valuable (sure it ...
06.10.2022 TMBH 30: Why a "non-planning" person decided to make a plan I have known Dawn Garret for about seven years now. She has worked with me for so long helping moms create homeschool plans that I had long forgotten that once upon a time she considered herself "not a planning person. ...
06.03.2022 TMBH 29: Three Reasons Why It’s Worth Your Time to Plan I hear it all the time -- there is no need for me to plan, I won't be able to follow the plan anyway. If you can do that and not be frustrated by the resulting school year, then great. ...
04.29.2022 TMBH 28: Summer In Your Homeschool Summertime. Where the living is easier (and summer homeschooling is easier too). These are my top tips for making this summer in your homeschool the best yet!
04.22.2022 TMBH 27: How do I choose a curriculum? When people begin homeschooling, the very first question they often ask is, "How do I choose a curriculum?" These three tips will help you get started! Find the show notes for this episode at https://pambarnhill.com/tmbh27
04.15.2022 TMBH 26: Pam's favorite homeschool books I have been reading homeschool books for over 10 years now. Some have been forgettable, but so many have helped to shape the way I school my kids. Today I am sharing a number of my favorites and telling you ...
04.08.2022 TMBH 25: Nature Study, The Perfect Elementary Science Curriculum Sometimes simple is better. Kids need to make observations about the world around them. Further science ability depends on being able to look closely, to see the details, and record them. I love that nature study (free and readily available ...
04.01.2022 TMBH 24: What if I don't finish my curriculum? Homeschoolers worry, "What happens if I don't finish our curriculum before the end of the year?' The answer isn't as cut and dried and you might think. Some curriculum resources are never meant to be finished 100 percent (really!) and ...
03.25.2022 TMBH 23: Homeschooling and ADHD Do you suspect that your child has ADHD? Have you wondered what that means for your homeschool journey? Should you have him or here tested? Can you even do homeschooling properly with an ADHD child? I am joined on this ...
03.18.2022 TMBH 22: Homeschooling on the Cheap Is it even possible to homeschool cheaply without buying tons of expensive curriculum? What about homeschooling almost totally for free without buying curriculum at all? Whit a few handy tools and some extra time in your budget there are some ...
03.11.2022 TMBH 21: Learning Styles Aren't What you Think They Are Teaching to your kid's learning styles is a huge buzzword in homeschool circles, but on today's episode of the podcast we are talking about why it doesn't matter nearly as much as you might think and even how it can ...
03.04.2022 TMBH 20: Suspecting learning issues (Marianne Sunderland) When you have a child that is struggling you can sometimes feel a little helpless. What are they really capable of? How can I help them to succeed? What if they never learn what they need to? Our guest today ...
02.25.2022 TMBH 19: What do I do to homeschool preschool? Homeschooling preschool can seem daunting to first-time parents, not because it its difficult, but instead because this is the first chance to really buck the system and do something different that everyone else. At the end of the day, we ...
02.18.2022 TMBH 18: Why attend a homeschool convention? It's my favorite time of year -- time for the homeschool convention. I will be speaking at all five of the regional GHC conventions this year and I think you should attend! In this episode of the podcast I am ...
02.11.2022 TMBH 21: Learning Styles Aren't What you Think They Are Teaching to your kids' learning styles is a huge buzzword in homeschool circles, but on today's episode of the podcast we are talking about why it doesn't matter nearly as much as you might think and how it can even ...
02.11.2022 TMBH 17: Is Homeschooling legal? These days homeschooling is such a common occurrence that when most people ask "Is it legal?" what they really mean is "What do you need to do legally homeschool?" The answer to that is complicated because it varies widely depending ...
02.04.2022 TMBH 16: Homeschool Socialization with Mary Wilson If you homeschool you have probably been asked about socialization. While I have no fear that your kids (or mine) are going to be especially socially awkward, there are some extra things that homeschool moms have to consider when it ...
01.28.2022 TMBH 15: Outsourcing In Your Homeschool The great thing about homeschooling is that we really don't have to do all of the education or our children by ourselves. There are so many opportunities out there to outsource some of the kid's learning. In this episode of ...
01.21.2022 TMBH 14: What is Deschooling? If you have been around homeschooling circles you may have heard the term "deschooling." This podcast answers the questions what is deschooling, how long you might want to do it, as well as some practical suggestions for deschooling-type activities. Pam ...
01.14.2022 TMBH 13: Balancing work with trying to homeschool So many parents now are trying to work and homeschool. Some are working inside the home and some are even working outside the home. The good news is, it totally can be done and my guest today has done it. ...
01.07.2022 TMBH 12: Giving Yourself Grace Homeschool moms have a tendency to be just a little bit tough on themselves and quite honestly it isn't the most helpful trait we have. Today I am joined by my good friend Mystie Winckler to talk about why we ...
11.19.2021 TMBH 11: Homeschooling High School: Everything You Need To Get Started I find it sad when families homeschool up until high school and then stop -- not because they don't desire to homeschool further but instead because they think they can't. On our episode today I am here to tell you ...
11.12.2021 TMBH 10: Homeschooling Middle School: Everything You Need To Make The Transition Middle school will bring changes to your homeschool and not all of them will be good. But some will. Just like anything there are life-situations that are difficult, but hey, everyone can read now -- which can be a game-changer ...
11.05.2021 TMBH 09: Playing with Math with Mark Hendrickson Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of most homeschooling parents more than teaching their kids math. What if instead of fear we could approach math with curiosity? What if instead of dread, we instead looked at ways we could play? ...

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