101 Homeschool Ideas

101 Homeschool Ideas episodes:

• 09.25.2014

  Homeschool Field Trips

  One of the best reasons to do fieldtrips with your homeschool children is the opportunity to see what gets them excited. Do you need some great homeschool fieldtrip ideas? Well, here are some of my favorite ideas. Have you done...

  
• 09.04.2014

  From Pathetic to Empathetic

  Be an Empathetic Parent… Not a Pathetic One… Demonstrating Empathy is Key to STRONG Relationships In this episode, I discuss how empathy will strengthen your relationships and help you overcome the number one obstacle in any emotional situation with your...

  
• 08.29.2014

  Get Your Children to Trust You

  “[Trust] is the central issue in human relationships within and outside organizations. Without trust you cannot lead. Without trust you cannot get extraordinary things done. Individuals are unable to trust others fail to become leaders, precisely because they can’t bear...

  
• 07.24.2014

  Math U See

  Math is one of those subjects that really make homeschool parents nervous. I have heard so many parents express the idea that they would have to send their children back to public school once they got into Jr. High because...

  
• 06.30.2014

  4 Questions You Have to Ask Your Teen

  Last episode we kind of talked about some “simple” questions that you could ask your children to help you build that relationship and open the doors of communication. Now, we want to talk about some questions that you absolutely, must...

  
• 06.30.2014

  Conversation Starters

  I just want to give you some questions that will help you open the door to conversation with your children. Here are some simple questions that will help you and your child develop the ability to communicate so that when difficult...

  
• 06.12.2014

  6 Ways to Create Social Experiences for Your Children

  In this podcast, I will explain 6 ways you can create social experiences for your homeschooled children. This is one of the most commonly asked questions of parents that choose to school their children at home. It is as if...

  
• 06.11.2014

  Why Games Help Learning

  In this podcast I will explain why I think that learning is critical learning (despite what some researchers have been saying over the last 5 years). I will also tell you why I think the researchers are wrong and why...

  
• 06.03.2014

  Terri Brady and Finding Your “Why” to Homeschool

  Vision is one of the most important pieces when it comes to successfully tackling a new adventure like Homeschooling your Children. Every homeschool family should have a list of reasons WHY TO HOMESCHOOL and a second list of 25 THINGS YOU WANT...

  
• 05.29.2014

  Homeschool Science Challenge #1: Egg Forces

  HOW DID IT DO THAT? Make sure you submit your child’s explanation of the science project below. Just leave us a comment at the bottom of the page. Listen to this podcast (and all of our past episodes) here for FREE!!!...

  
• 05.27.2014

  Improve Your Test Scores

  This podcast will help you prepare your children for whatever testing experiences that lie ahead of them. If they understand this simple approach to tests, I promise that their scores will improve. Listen to why I have so sure…  ...

  
• 05.08.2014

  Episode 31 Cooperative Learning

  Homeschool families sometimes miss out on some of the really great educational research. Spencer Kagan started researching cooperative learning in the late 1960's. His research has been used with great success in public classrooms. Home school families that have used...

  
• 04.30.2014

  Visual Learning Activities

  Every child is different, and that makes teaching them the greatest challenge on earth. Parents that home school their children understand what it means to wrestle with difficult addition problems... Not that they can't do the problem, just how to...

  
• 04.27.2014

  Auditory Learning Activities

  It is very important for home school parents to identify what learning styles appeal to the personality and preference of their children. Understanding the difference between auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and visual learners. There are other learning styles (see Multiple...

  
• 04.23.2014

  Homeschool Ideas for Different Learning Styles

  There are so many different approaches to learning. Researchers pretty much agree on three basic learning styles: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. In order to fully take advantage of the opportunity to individualize your children's education through home school, you need...

  
• 04.19.2014

  Michele Brown and Ohio State

  Michele Brown is the Senior Assistant Director of Economic Access & Ohio State University Acadmey Program. She has been in undergraduate admissions for 27 YEARS!!!!. She knows her stuff, so get ready for some great advice about getting into college....

  
• 04.16.2014

  Homeschool Peer Review

  5 steps to help your children benefit from good peer reviews. The studies are really clear that peer reviews not only help the student whose work gets reviewed, but the learning of the reviewer increases as well. This episode walks...

  
• 04.04.2014

  Homeschool College Preparation

  Homeschool parents will love this interview.

  
• 04.01.2014

  Home School Easy Science Idea

  This podcast offers an idea for home school parents in science and research. Homeschool students need to have opportunities to use their imagination in their schooling. Imagination can produce some of the most powerful learning experiences and that makes these...

  
• 03.30.2014

  Home School Ideas Ep 20

  MATH HOMESCHOOL IDEAS: Throughout several of these interviews, one of the common threads has been a frustration with the subject of math. I am by no means a math scholar, but here are three ideas to help younger children with...

  
• 03.28.2014

  Home School

  Sara Ratliff shares a lot of great information for home school families. She explains how she does not use a curriculum but creates her own using a mix of different resources. She gives an idea about scheduling but still remaining...

  
• 03.25.2014

  Homeschool Ideas Episode 18: Lisa Hone

  This interview is important for parents and teachers that work with children and students struggling with ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, anger management, and many other challenges that impede their learning. For home school parents, I think the first thing you...

  
• 03.19.2014

  Homeschooling Ideas Ep 16: Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko

  This is a powerful interview that describes the unschooling method of education and how it is a little different from homeschooling. Beatrice really helps us understand her new book Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education. Don't forget to...

  
• 03.17.2014

  Top 10 Ideas for Homeschool Parents

  I decided that I would recap our last 14 episodes and the ideas that we are getting from the awesome interviews. I have really been so grateful for all of the people that we have had the opportunity to interview...

  
• 03.10.2014

  Homeschool Ideas Ep 12 Ashley Hill and College Admissions

  This interview is an excellent resource for home school parents with older children. Ashley Hill as several years experience helping homeschool students distinguish themselves from the rest of the applicants so that they can get into the school that best...

  
• 03.08.2014

  Homeschool Ideas Ep 11

  Home school is growing. More and more parents look for a community that will help them through the challenges of helping their children educate themselves at home. I share a creative writing homeschool idea that will help you when in...

  
• 03.05.2014

  Homeschool Ideas Ep 10 Kathryn Wylie

  Here is my interview with Kathryn Wylie. She gives some great information including a curriculum review of unit studies style homeschooling and why she and her family loved that particular method. She also shared how she organized her children’s day...

  
• 03.03.2014

  Homeschool Ideas Ep. 9 Olivia Votaw

  Olivia Votaw has been homeschooling for several years and has faced many of the struggles that are common to homeschool parents: Her husband was less than supportive in the beginning; She faced the negative pressure from within family and friends...

  
• 02.27.2014

  Homeschool Ep. 08

  You are going to love the this interview. There is so much information here about educational apps, curriculum, and educational websites. What are you waiting for… get listening!!!   [su_heading size=”30″ margin=”40″]Jamie and Petter Olsen[/su_heading] After we got done laughing...