The Brave & Balanced Homeschool with Mary Berghammer

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Have you ever shed tears over homeschooling? I mean have you ever been so discouraged at teaching your children or about a learning challenge and not knowing how to help them? I have. There were many times that I just didn’t know what to do.

Do you lay awake at night worry about whether they will be prepared for college or be able to be successful in the workplace? This is the episode for you! Listen in and get some homeschool encouragement.

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It's almost Christmas! It's time to make some memories with your children and pass on those cherished traditions!

How do you homeschool during Christmas time? Should you even homeschool during the holiday season? How much time should you take off from homeschooling for the holidays? Listen in to find out how I homeschooled during the holidays for over 22 years.

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Are you a homeschool mom who wants to know more about alternative homeschool curricula? Have you heard of Charlotte Mason and want to find out more about her philosophy of education? You will want to listen in on this episode of the What About Homeschooling podcast.

If you want to know more about Charlotte Mason and how to add some of her techniques to your homeschool, go check out these websites:

Amblesideonline

SimplyCharlotteMason

CharlotteMasonHomeschooling

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Need some help choosing the best homeschool curriculum for your children?

Here is my 2nd homeschool curriculum review! In this episode I review a wonderful unit study homeschool curriculum called A World of Adventure by Learning Adventures.

Learning Adventures

One of the challenges of homeschooling is choosing the best homeschool curriculum for your family. I want to help you get started homeschooling by providing some homeschool curriculum reviews. For my first review, I chose Sonlight, a literature-based homeschool curricula.

Mentioned in this episode  WhatAboutHomeschooling.com

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                                            Sonlight.com

                                            Sonlight podcast

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How do you homeschool a kindergartener? What homeschool curriculum should you use? How long does it take to teach a kindergartener each day? Can you homeschool kindergarten for free? Where do you start? I’m glad you asked. Give me a few minutes, and I will help you with all these questions.

Mentioned in this episode: Homeschool Legal Defense Association

                                            Abeka scope and sequence

                                            Bob Jones scope and sequence

                                            Simply Charlotte Mason

                                            AmblesideOnline

Is it possible to homeschool and work at the same time? Yes, it is! I homeschooled my children and worked part-time and full-time. Listen in and see how I made it through those years while working and homeschooling at the same time.

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Mentioned in this episode: for homeschool laws: HSLDA.org

for online curriculum:  Abeka.com  Bjupress.com  Monarch

Have you ever thought, "I'm not smart enough to homeschool my children"? , I want to help you see that you are more than qualified to teach your children at home if you feel that this is what God is calling you to do. I want to give you some knowledge of what is available to you, so you feel more comfortable, empowered, and confident that you can homeschool your children.

Mentioned in this episode:

www.whatabouthomeschooling.com

www.teachingtextbooks.com 

www.abeka.com

Simple Homeschooling Tips for Beginners

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Do you have fears around homeschooling your children? Are you looking at circumstances beyond your control and letting them influence your decisions about homeschooling? Sometimes we need to move forward in faith despite the things going on around us, and trust God for the outcome.

Homeschooling preschool.

You can go all in on a preschool homeschool curriculum that guides you with lesson plans etc. or you can just get some simple supplies and do it on your own. Or, if you choose, you don’t have to do either of these. You can simply wait to start school until they are older. 

Mentioned in this episode:

HSLDA

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