No, this isn’t turning into a homeschool podcast. But I got enough questions about our homeschool journey that I decided to put our experience thus far into a podcast episode-- fitting as we wrap up our fifth year of formal homeschooling.

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||Books to Consider||

Balanced and Barefoot

Mere Motherhood

The Brave Learner

The Call of the Wild and Free

For the Children's Sake

A Charlotte Mason Companion

Teaching from Rest

Mama, Why Am I Homeschooled?

This is my Home, This is my School

||Favorite podcast episodes about educational choices in the early years||

-Kids are Play-Deprived and Paying the Price

-Freedom in Education on Risen Motherhood: Public, Private, and Homeschool
-Homeschooling with Babies and Toddlers

-It's Time to Put Some Pinecones Back

-How to Teach from Rest

-What Worked? What Didn't? Looking Back on Homeschooling

-Am I Doing Enough?

-Homeschooling with Confidence

-Homeschooling Boys

||Homeschooling Podcasts I Love||

1000 Hours Outside

Read Aloud Revival

The Brave Writer

Durenda Wilson

The Greta Eskridge Podcast

The New Mason Jar

The Commonplace

Wild + Free

A Delectable Education

The Homeschool Made Simple Podcast

||Curriculum I love||

Beautiful Feet Books (living books-based history and nature study)

Noeo Science

The Good and the Beautiful (math and handwriting)

Latin Song School

Brave Writer (writing and grammar)

Reading Simplified or Rooted in Language (reading and phonics)