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463 | College Isn’t the Only Path to a Successful Future with Cindy LaJoy (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY

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

Release Date: 09/25/2025

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...

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 | | ...

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...

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...

491 | Work Together! (Sean Allen)

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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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In this episode, we dive into a powerful conversation with Cindy LaJoy of Blue Collar Homeschool about creating meaningful educational paths for kids who aren’t headed toward the traditional college track. Cindy shares how to help children discover their strengths, explore careers and trades, and build skills that get overlooked in traditional schooling. From certificate programs to apprenticeships, she shows how learning can be tailored without being “less than.” We also discuss the importance of relationship at the heart of homeschooling and celebrating every kind of excellence. This episode is full of practical ideas and encouragement for parents seeking alternatives to the college-only path.

About Cindy

An unexpected homeschooler, after a dozen years Cindy is entering her final year of homeschooling with her youngest of five kids. Her children, now young adults, were all adopted from orphanages in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and presented her with the unique challenge of educating learners with numerous learning disabilities, no English, and giftedness in the mix as well! Three years ago Cindy founded the Facebook group and website "Blue Collar Homeschool" to help others find the support and encouragement she couldn't find for her own family. College is not the only path to a successful future, and Cindy's kids are proving that as they operate their own pizzeria and tech businesses. Her online group has grown to a membership of almost 9000 and is a haven where families with kids who are not college-bound can post questions to find resources for everything from business start-ups to barn building to creative arts pursuits...and not be bashed for having children whose gifts may be discovered outside the academic arena. Blue Collar Homeschool is helping many discover "A different kind of homeschooling excellence!

About Janice

Janice Campbell, a lifelong reader and writer, loves to introduce students to great books and beautiful writing. She holds an English degree from Mary Baldwin College, and is the graduated homeschool mom of four sons. You’ll find more about reading, writing, planning, and education from a Charlotte Mason/Classical perspective at her websites, EverydayEducation.com, Excellence-in-Literature.com, and DoingWhatMatters.com.

Resources

Penn Foster Career School

Stratford Career Institute

ITPRO.TV Online tech training for numerous certifications

Lynda.com for a wide variety of training in everything from graphic design, programming, photography, social media marketing, general marketing, small business, accounting, videography and more

Books Cindy would share with every child:

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch