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Homeschooling For Catholic Parents67 - 9 Essential Tips for Overwhelmed Homeschool Parents: Finding Balance and Joy in Learning. PART 1Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Tired of feeling overwhelmed? Homeschooling can be rewarding, but the balancing act of lesson plans, laundry, dinner, and character training can make you feel like a hostage in your own home. Instead of staying stressed, please listen to Part 1, of 9 Essential Tips for Overwhelmed Homeschool Parents: Finding Balance and Joy in Learning. Today, we dish on four critical tips to keep anxiety and overwhelm at bay in your Holy Homeschool. Whether you struggle with time management, ways to keep kids engaged or emotional support, you'll get so...2025-05-0422 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents66 - Ways to model TRUTH in your Catholic, Christian Homeschool.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! This episode is inspired by a conversation with a recreational marijuana petitionist outside the post office on a beautiful spring afternoon. It's important to have dialogue with those with different viewpoints. In a christian, Catholic homeschool we are well-equipping our children to learn their faith and engage in thoughtful, charitable conversations. The episode includes my favorite thing, a little anecdotal history in a discussion on Socratic questioning as a method to reveal truths, highlighted by a story about the philosopher Socrates. In this episode, you...2025-04-2721 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents65 Worried about Social Media Influence? 3 Saints Who Will Resonate with Your Teen (And You)!Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Are you concerned about social media influencers affecting your child's sefl-esteem and belief system? Of course you are! Rightly so! The ideologies and unsound doctrine being forced on our kids are ubiquitious and frightening. That's why the stories of the saints' lilves are a hope-bringing salve to our souls. Children and teenagers can have faith. History tells many stories of kids with a faith so strong that they died for it. Please listen in for encouragement from the lives of three Saints who died or were ma...2025-04-2021 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents64 - You are enough! Stop self-doubt with these 3 tips.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Everyone who has ever pondered homeschooling has doubted themselves at some point. Am I going to ruin my child? How can I teach them? I don't have a teaching degree. I don't want them to have a bunch of gaps in their education. These are all along the same thread of the lie that the enemy whispers to us. Of course, he doesn't want us to teach our children about the Lord or protect them from a toxic Godless culture through schools that hope to indoctrinate an...2025-04-1327 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents63 - Time Management tips for Field Trips and Road trips for your Catholic Homeschool.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 63 Published April 6, 2025We've made plenty of mistakes on our homeschooling journey. And whether it's shoddy math that Maeve's teaching at home, or pulling into the dirtiest, busiest Olive Garden on a 16-hour road trip, we don't want you to repeat our mistakes. Listen in for tips to make your road trips and field trips easier to plan and execute so that the learning and fun is amped up while the complaining and entitlement is brought down to a dull roar...2025-04-0623 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents62 - Struggling with CONSISTENCY? Add THIS to Your Homeschool Routine.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode NotesPublished March 30, 2025Are you worried about staying consistent in your homeschool? Dying to find the perfect routine that you'll stick to forever? It's a struggle for me too! Let me let you in on my secrets. I promise they're fun, and your children will not only thrive, but love doing them. Isn't it hard to find Catholic friends?! I've got a solution. Hop on over to the Homeschooling for Catholic Parents Fac...2025-03-3117 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents61- How Will You Socialize them? Catholic Teaching on this HOT Topic for Your Homeschool.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode Notes: Published March 23, 2025Stopping my eye-roll is a real struggle for this veteran homeschool mom when curious people ask, But, how will you socialize them?" They act like we lock our kids up in a cinder block cell through all the daylight hours every Monday-Friday. I've always had plenty of rebuttals for this question, but now that I've read what the catechism says about socialization, there will be no shutting me up! LIsten in for the Wisdom of H...2025-03-2324 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents60 - Struggling With Anxiety and Overwhelm in your Homeschool? Do these 3 things to Have More PeaceSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 60Published March 16, 2025Homeschool parents, we SELDOM get a break. Anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed can constantly build if we don't use strategies to manage that. Yes, couples massages and mani/pedis are great for self-care, but how often can we squeeze those into our schedule? In this episode, you will get some easy, free strategies that you can do anytime from your home. Thanks for stopping by because Home Is Where the Truth Is!2025-03-1621 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents59 - 4 EASY Ways to Protect Your Child from Stress-Induced Illness and DETOXIFY them from the School SystemSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 59Published March 9, 2025 The strategies in this episode are essential in protecting our children from the sad statistics of depression, self-harm, and other stress-induced illnesses plaguing this generation. One Silicon Valley School reports as many as 80% of students suffer from moderate to severe depression! We aren't going to have that in our homeschool. Instead, we will have brave learners who know how to make decisions and are not afraid to fail. Whether your child never stepped foot...2025-03-0928 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents58 | Want to Protect Your Kids from the Culture? You're Not Crazy or Alone! 4 Things I learned on a Catholic College Visit.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 58 Published March 2, 2025 Here we go again, us crazy homeschool moms bubble-wrapping our kids. Turns out, it's a great idea to shield them from a culture that seeks to hyper-sexualize them from very young ages while diminishing God and the importance of faith. Listen to this episode for reassurance in the parenting journey. You are not alone in the battle, parents! And it is a battle...battle for their souls; join us in never relenting! L...2025-03-0223 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents57 - STOP Spending All Day Homeschooling! How to Raise Life-Long Learners in 2 Hours a Day.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 57Published Feb. 23, 2025Do you want to raise self-starters who are eager for knowledge and actively seek out ideal sources to satisfy their curiosity? Let's think of home education as the petri dish for that! In contrast to the traditional education system which places your child on the conveyor belt to college, where students are inundated with irrelevant facts and become accustomed to being spoon-fed information, home education fosters a love for discovery and nurtures intrinsic motivation. T...2025-02-2322 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents56 - Tips For Meaningful Conversations For all AgesSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Can your kids come to you about anything? Even Sex, drugs, and Gangsta Rap? Our own upbringing lacked in-depth parental guidance on certain topics, which led us to learn from less reliable sources. As homeschool parents, we get to be the primary source of information for our children, ensuring they come to us with their questions instead of relying on peers or the internet.In this episode, we dive into the importance of meaningful conversations and how to foster them at all age...2025-02-1622 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents55 - Running Late and Frazzled? Homeschool Hacks to Increase Your Focus and Organize Your Schedule.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 55 Published: February 9, 2025Are you a "Maker" or "Manager"? Have no idea what I'm talking about? Well, listen in as we dive into the common challenges of time management and punctuality that many homeschooling parents face. We share practical tips and hacks to help you organize your schedules, avoid burnout, and ensure timely arrivals. Topics covered include setting realistic schedules, minimizing distractions such as screen time, and effectively planning travel time. We emphasize the value...2025-02-0918 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents54 - Don't count to 3! Our method for Character Training so you can Peacefully Teach Your Child.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 54 Published Feb. 2, 2025Isn't it hard to make catholic friends? Please join our Facebook community: Homeschooling for Catholic ParentsAre you that parent who repeats yourself over and over? Then you follow up with, "I'm counting to three, 1, 2, 2 ½, 2 ¾, 2 ⅝…" Unfortunately, that doesn't qualify as a fractions lesson and in the end, the kid still doesn't listen. That used to be me!In this episode of Homeschooling for Catholic Parents, we explore the joys and trials of homescho...2025-02-0221 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents53 - Want to Make History Interesting for You and Your Child? The BEST History Curriculum for Your Catholic Homeschool.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Were you that student who hated memorizing dates and battle names? Could you have given any less thought to that dusty ol' white-washed history textbook, which was stripped of all the miraculous stories of humanity? That used to describe me (and most students) perfectly! But homeschooling converted me. Now, I love to learn and teach history. We've tried many different curricula and teaching methods over the years. Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we've found an optimized formula that creates true Patriots and lovers of hi...2025-01-2625 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents52 - Dreaming of homeschooling? Three things you don't need to start: Curriculum, daily schedule, and a perfectly organized home.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! If you're thinking about taking the homeschool plunge, there are all kinds of unknowns swirling in your heart. What curriculum do I use? What does a daily routine look like? And, will I ever have an organized home? Because I need that! Don't worry Mama, we arent telling you to Embrace Unconventional Homeschooling by skipping the curriculum, and letting your kids run wild with no daily schedule. But pleas listen in, because today we chat about the truly important things. Plus we'll give you some tips on...2025-01-1916 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents51 - Why daily routines aren't what you think they are. Homeschooling hacks for those who need structure.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! In this episode, we delve into the fundamentals of homeschooling, addressing common concerns like daily routines, structure, and playtime. The keys to a happy homeschool are creating daily routines that balance flexibility and structure, with tons of of free play, outdoor activities, and regular field trips. Have you heard of the Thomas Jefferson Education (TJEd) framework? It focuses on inspiring children through mentors and classic literature rather than traditional textbooks and professors. And can't you imagine yourself laying on the couch eating bonbons while your self-driven chi...2025-01-1221 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents50 - FUN and EASY Ways to Foster Faith and Connection in Your Catholic HomeschoolSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! FUN and EASY Ways to Foster Faith and Connection in Your Catholic Homeschool. In Episode 50 of our podcast, discover fun and easy ways to foster faith and connection in your Catholic homeschool. Maeve and Matt share their insights on incorporating Catholic teachings, apologetics, and traditions into your daily homeschool routine. Learn practical tips for engaging your kids with stories of saints, celebrating feast days, and holding meaningful conversations about the faith. This episode also covers the importance of being your child's pri...2025-01-0522 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents49 - 3 Secrets to Home Organization as a Homeschooling FamilySend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! How will I stay organized if I homeschool? How do you keep a tidy home when children's learning toys are scattered everywhere? In today's episode, we reveal three key home organization secrets for homeschooling families. We discuss purging regularly, establishing no-toy zones with regular tidying, and using clear bins for efficient storage. Also highlighted, the importance of involving children in chores and a touch on the spiritual aspect of home organization.Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up The Japanese Art...2024-12-2917 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents48 -Benefits of Homeschooling: Unique Adventures and family bonding through togetherness.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Maeve and Mat dive into how homeschooling opens up unique adventures, like exclusive homeschool skate days. They emphasize the priceless family bonding these activities cultivate, fortifying lifelong connections among family members. The episode tackles common apprehensions about homeschooling, providing insightful tips and motivational anecdotes to reassure parents considering this educational route. Maeve highlights the remarkable community and camaraderie that homeschooling fosters, debunking misconceptions along the way. To explore this topic further, please check out Maeve's book, Home Is Where the Truth Is. This comprehensive guid...2024-12-2209 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents47 - Homeschooling and Building Strong Relationships with Your KidsSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! In this episode, Maeve and Matt tackle the rollercoaster of homeschooling relationships with your kids – buckle up! Maeve admits that trying to teach her own kids often leads to tears on both sides. But fear not, this episode sheds light on fostering deeper connections through homeschool adventures (sans tantrums, ideally).Maeve and Matt are here to help with those pesky doubts and questions: "What does a homeschool daily routine even look like?", "Am I going to ruin my kid?", and everyone's favorite, "Aren't homeschoolers weir...2024-12-1615 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents46 - Consistency is Key, Tips for homeschool routines and being consistent in your Catholic faith.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Episode 46Published Dec. 8 2024Is it possible to homeschool when both parents work? I have a career. Will I have enough time to set my child up for success as an adult? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the idea of consistency in homeschooling? What does a homeschool routine even look like? If you want peace of mind with your decision to homeschool, this podcast is for you!Listen in for some easy ways to be consistent in your home...2024-12-0822 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents45 - Finding Patience in Homeschooling, even when it's a difficult child.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! One of the main reasons people think they cannot homeschool. "I could never homeschool. I don't have the patience."Perhaps you’ve been thinking about homeschooling, but like anyone, there are so many doubts that your inner critic and the enemy are whispering to you. I don’t have the patience. How can I ever teach my own child? When I help him or her with their homework, it always ends in a meltdown. Or perhaps you’re already homeschooling, and you just...2024-11-3026 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents44 - Ways to find balance in your life and your homeschool.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! This week, we discuss ways to ensure holistic health through balance in homeschooling. Specifically, Dr. Robert Walsh's therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLCs) are important aspects of self-care that can be as effective as medication or psychotherapy for some disorders like depression. The great thing about TLCs is they're fun, inexpensive, free of harmful side effects, and proven beneficial for all over thousands of research studies.When you practice them, you'll stay healthy in mind, body, and spirit. Listen in to find out what they are an...2024-11-2434 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents43 - How we talk to our kids about abortion.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! The culture is always coming after our children. They can't even watch a lawn mower video on YouTube without seeing a commercial meant to convince them that murder is a perfectly acceptable option under certain circumstances. Evil will never stop pursuing our kids. Parents, we've got to teach truth through awkward conversations about hard topics. Listen in for how the Lord guides and comforts parents who aren't skirting the hard topics with their children. Show Notes Episode 43Published November 10, 2024Jub...2024-11-1030 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents42 - How to find self-care in the busyness of homeschoolingSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! In this episode, Maeve and Matt navigate the chaos of swim meets, missed races, and app notifications. Between parenting fails and the constant quest for "me time," they find humor in the madness and remind us why every parent deserves five minutes of quiet time and a minivan with seat heaters. Tune in for laughs and lessons on balancing family, sports, and sanity.Show Notes Episode 42Published November 3, 2024Isn't it hard to find Catholic friends?! I...2024-11-0337 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents41 - Ways in which God guides our homeschooling curriculum.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Maeve and Mat explore the wonders of the Butterfly Effect, sharing stories of historical serendipity and divine intervention. They also discuss the importance of history in homeschooling and the inspiring tales of early missionaries like St. Isaac Jogues. Don't miss their tips on prayer and why a love for learning can transform your homeschool experience! This episode reminds us how small actions can have monumental impacts. Show NotesEpisode 41Published Oct. 27, 2024Join Turning Point USA's Pra...2024-10-2732 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents40 - God in our studies, curriculum and homeschool planning.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Can AI do that? Join Matt and Maeve in a raucously entertaining episode where survival skills get a Little House on the Prairie twist, Spanish legends meet modern homeschooling, and divine interventions pop up in latte art. Show NotesEpisode 40Published Oct. 19, 2024Join the Prayer and Fast for our nation. Turning Point USA National Day of Prayer and Fasting.Great Book about Columbus by D'aulaire ColumbusFun episodes to...2024-10-2042 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents39 - Teaching kids how to defend their faith, Catholic Apologetics: a life long quest.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Ever wondered how to hurricane prep like a pro? In this episode, we tackle everything from Hurricane Milton lockdown life hacks to the heroic saga of surfing grandpas. Plus, get ready for some serious Catholic apologetics—because sometimes, truth bombs drop harder than a category 4 storm. Tune in and laugh with us through the chaos!Show notes:Episode 39 Published Oct. 13, 2024Correction on bible verse mentioned:John 20:22-23 is the verse where Jesus breathes on the...2024-10-1335 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents38 - Are you talking truth with your kids about transgenderism and soft-totalitarianism?Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Life without internet, scheduling conflicts, gulags, and inoculating your kids against the trans movement. We fit all that into one pithy conversation that seemed to flow rather nicely. Show NotesEpisode 38Published Oct. 05, 2024Highlights of Alabama dethroning Georgia. (The whole video is awesome, but forward it to 19:15 to see miraculous catch.) Alabama's Ryan Williams' amazing game-winning catchEpisode 24 Talking about timing at Swim meetsEpisode 8 Chatting about Survival Mode 2024-10-0641 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents37 - Teaching your kids resiliency in an anxious generation. How to raise resilient kids.Send us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Generation Z is the most lonely, anxious, self-harming generation ever. This is directly linked to the phones in their pockets and the lack of good old-fashioned play. Drawing from two books that changed me as a parent, Mat and I discuss what kids need to learn resiliency. Published: September 29, 2024Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious GenerationDr. Kathy KochRaisin Resilient KidsEight Great SmartsIsn't it hard to find Catholic friends?! I've got a...2024-09-2942 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents36 - Catholic Faith and Family Resilience: Embracing Suffering and Spiritual GrowthSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Who knew a Catholic homeschooling podcast could cover everything from Mary’s sorrows to wild dance floors with astrophysicists? You won’t want to miss this episode as you'll find encouragement in the hard times and inspiration from two of the greatest women ever to live, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Mother Teresa of Calcutta."If I ever become a Saint--I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from Heaven--to light the light of those in darkness on Earth." -- Mother...2024-09-2239 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents35 - Practical Homeschool Curriculum and Teaching Faith at MassSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! They're calling it the "Spirit of the Age," acedia. AKA Sloth, the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. The opposite of Sloth is magnanimity. Let's be magnanimous in all we do! Let's make sure our kids know the significance of Mass so we can combat the spiritual youth exodus. We talk about that and creative curriculum ideas, such as unit studies, literature-based history lessons, and the value of immersive learning experiences like educational road trips and field trips.Show Notes Published Se...2024-09-1546 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents34 - Faith-Based Homeschooling: Tips on Mass and Handling School BulliesSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! "At each mass, the curtain of time is torn in two and we are on Calvary with our Lord."--Arch Bishop Fulton Sheen. Mass is eternal worship...it's important that our kids know that. We chat about that.Also, our well-behaved homeschool kids are going to come up against foul-mouthed government school bullies. What would Jesus do in that situation? We break down some great parenting advice and suggest practical approaches when quoting scripture to the bully doesn't seem to be working. 2024-09-0846 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents33 - Humility in Marriage and Parenting: Insights from Olympic AthletesSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Do you ever get exhausted managing "your brand" on your personal social media accounts? Our kids are inundated with messages telling them their worth is determined by frivolous things like beauty or how many followers they have. Where does HUMILITY come in? Let's practice this virtue in front of our children so they can see this antidote to pride. Listen in for tips on how to do that! Thanks for coming over to Home Is Where the Truth Is!Episode 33 Pu...2024-08-2641 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents32 - Teach Your Kids These Bible Verses to Emphasize the Truth of The Eucharist and CatholicismSend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Like a long awaited party, we've been working our way through the readings in mass for the last three weeks to the ultimate Catholic hype verse--The Bread of Life Discourse! Holla! *Raises roof*. Listen in for ways to bring it home to our children. Also, huddle up moms and dads, we've got to take action as a team to save our children from the multitude of affronts coming at them through those portals in their pocket. We've got practical advice backed by solid research on it. 2024-08-1848 minHomeschooling For Catholic Parents31 - Instilling Moral Guidance: Teaching Cardinal Virtues in Your Homeschooling JourneySend us a text! We’d love to hear from you! Does heavy parenting put you into a state of tonic immobility? Us too! Listen in for some other relatable parenting metaphors that will not only encourage you but hopefully make us all better parents and spouses. Also, don't waste the formative years on a mediocre education that only focuses on reading, writing and arithmetic! we chat about the four cardinal virtues (Wisdom, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance) and their importance in every person's education.Episode 31Published: August 11, 2024Episode Notes: 2024-08-1143 min