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

The Homeschool Solutions Show brings you weekly encouragement and practical tips to help you thrive as a homeschooling parent. Hosted by a rotating lineup of trusted voices in the homeschooling world, each episode offers real-life insight, biblical encouragement, curriculum ideas, habit training strategies, and grace-filled reminders that you don’t have to do it all perfectly. Whether you're a new homeschooler or a seasoned parent looking for fresh vision, you'll find Christ-centered wisdom and community here. Produced by Great Homeschool Conventions.

483 | The Joy of Reading in Community with Jennifer Dow (Janice Campbell) 07/01/2025

483 | The Joy of Reading in Community with Jennifer Dow (Janice Campbell) Reading in community can take you more deeply into a book, and more deeply into the heart of friendship, too. If you’ve ever wanted to start a book group or wondered how to lead a class discussion on a classic work of literature, Jennifer Dow’s wise counsel can help you do both. You don’t have to know everything about a book in order to do this. Jennifer suggests that “If the goal is community and the hospitality that leads to healing, we must provide free space with clear, helpful boundaries. We must meet people where they are, at the same time offer or invite others to a vision of what can be, together, shoulder to shoulder. This expresses itself in the environment we curate, the content we behold, and the way we teach or read.” Join us to learn more about how to cultivate a reading atmosphere that leads to learning, growth, and relationship. About Jennifer Jennifer Dow is a classical teacher, speaker, and writer. Jennifer has completed the CiRCE Apprenticeship as a CiRCE certified Classical Teacher and has taught humanities, logic, rhetoric, and the fine arts since 2009. She is the founder of the Paideia Fellowship, an organization devoted to helping teachers and leaders, at home and school, teach the classical liberal arts. Jennifer’s published works can be seen around the web, was a contributing author for The Lost Tools of Writing Level 1, published by The CiRCE Institute. Jennifer has spoken across the nation on how to teach and encounter the classical liberal arts and hosted The Classical Homeschool Podcast, been featured on Your Morning Basket Podcast with Pam Barnhill and The Commons with Brian Phillips. Currently, Jennifer is writing her first book about the journey of classical learning and teaching, serving as the Director of the Paideia Fellowship, and researching how parents, leaders, and teachers can provide an authentic and healing classical education to all. Jennifer, an Orthodox Christian, lives in North Carolina with her three children and enjoys spoken word poetry, trying her hand at fancy cuisine, collecting more books than she’ll ever read, and the occasional Netflix binge. 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, , , and . Resources If you could choose any three books to give to a new homeschool mom, what would they be? Connect Jennifer Dow | | | | | Janice Campbell | | | | | 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 homeschooling journey, visit the site, and tune in to our sister podcast . . /episode/index/show/thehomeschoolsolutionsshow/id/37232235

480 | Out of Public School into Homeschooling with Jill Simonian from PragerU (Jessica Smartt) 06/03/2025

479 | Freedom, College, Homeschool Curricula, Facebook, and More with Connor Boyack! (Jessica Smartt) | REPLAY 05/29/2025

476 | How to Have a Quiet Time as a Homeschool Mom (Jeannie Fulbright) | REPLAY 04/24/2025

476 | How to Have a Quiet Time as a Homeschool Mom (Jeannie Fulbright) | REPLAY One thing we often neglect in our busy schedule is nurturing our walk with God. With everything we must complete, we feel that we just don't have the time to have a quiet time. However, Jesus tells us, "Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing." We all want more than anything to do a good job homeschooling, to bear much fruit in our children's lives. Yet, if we are not walking with the Lord, we cannot bear fruit, we can do nothing well. Colossians 1:29 says, "To this end I strenuously labor with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me." We need the energy Christ provides to succeed in any endeavor we undertake, especially homeschooling. In this podcast, Jeannie will share the simple format that Jesus taught us to strengthen our relationship with God. Even if you only have five minutes to spare each day, by employing the steps Jesus imparted, you will receive all the blessings and benefits of an intimate and dynamic relationship with God. About Jeannie Jeannie Fulbright, a 24-year veteran homeschooler, is the author of the #1 best-selling, multi award-winning Apologia Young Explorer science series: Exploring Creation with Astronomy, Chemistry and Physics, Botany, Zoology, and Anatomy & Physiology. She is also the author of the action-packed historical time travel book series Rumble Tumbles Through Time, as well as preschool science books and activity kits, the Charlotte Mason Heirloom Planner, and many high-quality Charlotte Mason based products. Jeannie and her husband Jeff became empty nesters in 2019. All four of their children all went to the University of Georgia on scholarship (homeschooling works!). For more than 20 years Jeannie has traveled around the country speaking to homeschoolers at conventions, covering a plethora of topics from Charlotte Mason to marriage and prayer. Connect Jeannie Fulbright | | | | | | 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 homeschooling journey, visit the site, and tune in to our sister podcast . . /episode/index/show/thehomeschoolsolutionsshow/id/36290115

476 | How to Have a Quiet Time as a Homeschool Mom (Jeannie Fulbright) | REPLAY 04/24/2025

472 | Interest Led vs. Need Based; a Homeschool Balancing Act (Jennifer Cabrera) | REPLAY 03/25/2025

470 | Your Children Need Someone to Talk To (Sean Allen) 03/19/2025

449 | Deep Work: Learning Focus in a World of Distraction (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY 03/10/2025

445 | Seven Things I Wish I'd Known About Homeschooling (Janice Campbell) | REPLAY 03/07/2025

469 | Homeschool Mom Burnout: Are You Unappreciated or Overdoing It? (Jennifer Cabrera) | REPLAY 03/06/2025

468 | Tips for Climbing Out of a Homeschool Rut (Sean Allen) | REPLAY 03/05/2025

465 | Self-Care For The Homeschool Mom (Jessica Smartt) 02/21/2025

466 | Consistency is Key (Sean Allen) 02/12/2025

463 | Vision: Beginning with the Ends in Mind (Shiela Catanzarite) | REPLAY 01/29/2025

463 | Vision: Beginning with the Ends in Mind (Shiela Catanzarite) | REPLAY It's a new year and God has gifted you 525,600 minutes! How will you invest them to ensure you have the most fruitful, life giving homeschool year ever? By beginning with the ENDS in mind! What were your gains last year? What do you want to gain by the end of this year? Join Shiela as she shares a simple framework to help you reflect on the gains you had last year in order to plan for the ones you desire this year. Be inspired to create a vision and concrete plan that will bring clarity, confidence and direction to your family life and homeschool this year. Gather the family and create an exciting vision that ensures an adventurous year of growth and precious memories! Be sure to visit Shiela's website to request the free PDF she created to help you "begin with the ends in mind." About Shiela Shiela Catanzarite is an author, speaker, editor, and communication coach. She's a 20-year Charlotte Mason veteran homeschooler and has worked as Jeannie Fulbright’s editor and designer for 20 years helping develop Jeannie’s award-winning Apologia science curriculum and most recently her Charlotte Mason products published through Jeannie Fulbright Press. Shiela is the author of the newly published Living Verse Language Arts in Poetry and is finishing up her second book in the series Living Verse Language Arts in Scripture, to be released spring 2024. Earning a bachelor’s degree in Special Education and a master’s degree in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary, Shiela has been teaching language arts in some capacity for 40+ years. Her passion remains helping students understand the elements of language and how to use these elements artfully to communicate effectively. Shiela is currently a language communication coach, working one-on-one with students who have language learning and communication challenges. She also writes curriculum for her private middle and high school English language communication classes that focus on writing and speaking. Both of Shiela's and her husband Bruce’s daughters attended private universities on scholarship and went on to pursue graduate studies in medicine and global business. She attributes their love for learning and academic achievement to homeschooling with Charlotte Mason’s philosophy and methodology. Connect Shiela Catanzarite | | | | 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 homeschooling journey, visit the site, and tune in to our sister podcast . . /episode/index/show/thehomeschoolsolutionsshow/id/35051555