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477 | Parenting is a Great Sacrifice (Sean Allen) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

Release Date: 11/20/2025

477 | Parenting is a Great Sacrifice (Sean Allen) | REPLAY show art 477 | Parenting is a Great Sacrifice (Sean Allen) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

It feels like there is so much opposition to homeschooling. Though today there is a far greater degree of acceptance, plenty of voices remain which not only question but blatantly oppose our efforts to raise our children at home. That said, the greatest opposition probably comes in our own self doubts and even resistance to what homeschooling requires of us. And what does it require? Just about everything. But if we learn to yield to the requirements, to the sacrifice, we learn the secret - giving is receiving, losing is reclaiming. Death is life.  About Sean Sean Allen is the founder of...

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495 | Goodbye for Now (Sean Allen) show art 495 | Goodbye for Now (Sean Allen)

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

This episode is a farewell of sorts as I'm moving on from the podcast. I'm so appreciative to have had the opportunity to contribute and I just wanted to share a few closing thoughts with you. About Sean Sean Allen is the founder of , husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents in the incredibly challenging, yet surpassingly beautiful, work of schooling and training their children at home. Resources  ! Connect Sean Allen | | | Homeschooling.mom | | ...

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475 | Creating a Family Culture of Reading, Writing and Creativity with Guest S.D. Smith (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY show art 475 | Creating a Family Culture of Reading, Writing and Creativity with Guest S.D. Smith (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

Join S.D. Smith, author of the Green Ember series, as he shares how storytelling and creativity shape his family life. From fostering young writers to building worlds with his kids, Smith offers insights on writing as an act of love, not just fame. Plus, get a peek at what’s next in the Green Ember universe! About S.D. S. D. Smith is a bestselling American author and creator of The Green Ember series, a middle-grade fantasy adventure featuring heroic rabbits. Based in West Virginia, he writes stories that blend courage, imagination, and moral lessons for young readers and families. Smith...

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491 | Work Together! (Sean Allen) show art 491 | Work Together! (Sean Allen)

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

This episode emphasizes the importance of working as a couple as you raise your children. Come together and talk about what you're seeing respectively, what you're hearing. Compare notes and consider each others perspectives. You have to work together as opposed to pulling in opposite directions. After all, nothing less than the welfare of your children hangs in the balance. About Sean Sean Allen is the founder of , husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents...

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491 | Work Together! (Sean Allen) show art 491 | Work Together! (Sean Allen)

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

This episode emphasizes the importance of working as a couple as you raise your children. Come together and talk about what you're seeing respectively, what you're hearing. Compare notes and consider each others perspectives. You have to work together as opposed to pulling in opposite directions. After all, nothing less than the welfare of your children hangs in the balance. About Sean Sean Allen is the founder of , husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents...

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471 | Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner with Kathy Kuhl (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY show art 471 | Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner with Kathy Kuhl (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

In this encouraging episode, host Janice Campbell talks with Kathy Kuhl, author of Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner, about how to help children who find learning harder than it should be. Kathy shares her personal journey homeschooling a child with learning challenges and offers practical insight for parents teaching kids who struggle with reading, writing, or attention. Together, Janice and Kathy discuss individualized learning, the importance of literature, balancing remediation with accommodation, and nurturing a child’s strengths and confidence. Whether you’re new to homeschooling...

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471 | Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner with Kathy Kuhl (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY show art 471 | Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner with Kathy Kuhl (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

In this encouraging episode, host Janice Campbell talks with Kathy Kuhl, author of Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner, about how to help children who find learning harder than it should be. Kathy shares her personal journey homeschooling a child with learning challenges and offers practical insight for parents teaching kids who struggle with reading, writing, or attention. Together, Janice and Kathy discuss individualized learning, the importance of literature, balancing remediation with accommodation, and nurturing a child’s strengths and confidence. Whether you’re new to homeschooling...

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488 | Time to Talk (Sean Allen) show art 488 | Time to Talk (Sean Allen)

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

Talking to your children and allowing them to talk to you is one of the most important and powerful things you can do as a parent. It can be too easy to assume that we know what's going on in the heart and mind of our child or that we understand why they have misbehaved etc. The truth is you won't truly know until you give them the opportunity to talk or until you ask the right questions. You have to listen and study it out in your mind. You have to pray over what you've heard and what you're observing. Then, and only then will the true answers present themselves. About Sean Sean Allen is the...

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498 | Self-Care for the Homeschool Mom (Jessica Smartt) | REPLAY show art 498 | Self-Care for the Homeschool Mom (Jessica Smartt) | REPLAY

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

In this personal and insightful episode Jessica shares what she's learned about how to make homeschooling sustainable for the mom, including specific self-care ideas and tips for moms in all stages. About Jessica Jessica is a wife, homeschool mom of three, author, and blogger. She lives in sunny North Carolina on a big family farm with chickens, goats, cousins, and lots of mud. Resources  Connect Jessica Smartt | | | Homeschooling.mom | | Subscribe to our YouTube channel | Have you joined us at one of the ?  We hope to see you there! For more encouragement on your...

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484 | The Importance of Family Devotions (Sean Allen) show art 484 | The Importance of Family Devotions (Sean Allen)

The Homeschool Solutions Show | Faith-Based Encouragement & Practical Tips from Seasoned Homeschooling Parents

Family devotions are an incredibly important part of the lifeblood of your home. Do without them and your home suffers in obvious and not so obvious ways (and the not so obvious ways are the scariest). This episode discusses a few practical considerations that will help you to get started with devotions in your home or will help you be more consistent than you may be now. About Sean Sean Allen is the founder of , husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents in...

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It feels like there is so much opposition to homeschooling. Though today there is a far greater degree of acceptance, plenty of voices remain which not only question but blatantly oppose our efforts to raise our children at home. That said, the greatest opposition probably comes in our own self doubts and even resistance to what homeschooling requires of us. And what does it require? Just about everything. But if we learn to yield to the requirements, to the sacrifice, we learn the secret - giving is receiving, losing is reclaiming. Death is life. 

About Sean

Sean Allen is the founder of The Well Ordered Homeschool, husband to his beautiful bride Caroline and a proud father of eight. He has a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and is passionate about creating materials to assist parents in the incredibly challenging, yet surpassingly beautiful, work of schooling and training their children at home.

Resources 

The Well Ordered Homeschool Planner - Undated Edition

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For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show.

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