Rest in the Homeschool Trench

Cultivating a Restful Homeschool: Teen Years

Cultivating a restful homeschool looks different throughout the seasons of homeschool life. Are you feeling frustrated that your strategies from your early years aren't helping any more? Are you overwhelmed with teen drama? Are you wanting to really enjoy your homeschool days with your middle and high schoolers? Let's consider a few ways to cultivate a restful homeschool during the teen years.

Cultivating a Restful Homeschool: The Early Years

There's no simple formula for cultivating a restful homeschool. There are many factors to evaluate and approaches to consider. One factor that affects how to approach homeschooling is your current season of life. Rest looks different in different seasons. If you have young children, a restful homeschool might seem impossible. Today, let's look at a few ways you can lay a foundation for a restful homeschool in the early years.

Cultivating a Restful Homeschool: Today

How's everything going in your homeschool today? Are you having a restful day? When you think about cultivating a result homeschool, there are many factors to evaluate and many approaches to consider. Sometimes though, you need a quick idea to implement. That's what I want to share today: 3 ideas you can try right now to cultivate a restful homeschool today.

An Introduction to Year 3

What can you expect as we begin the third year of the Rest in the Homeschool Trench podcast? Are you curious about what's going on in my personal life? Today, I have several sets of 3 - 3 things I'm thankful for, 3 ways I'm personally growing, 3 ways I'm cultivating rest, and 3 things coming soon on the podcast.

Five Favorite Episodes: Celebrating Two Years

The Rest in the Homeschool Trench podcast is two years old! Thank you for joining me in this journey of cultivating a restful heart in the midst of busy homeschool days. Thank you for listening to the episodes, sending me messages of what you enjoyed, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Today, I want to share the top 5 episodes from the past 2 years, and I want to share a few things about the podcast that you don't know.

Five Cues You Need to Pause Today

Do you need to take a break today? Maybe you would love a nap or vacation. Today we're looking at needing to pause to be renewed and able to continue. Let's look at 5 cues you need to take a break today, a moment to pause and seek Jesus so you can be renewed and return to your work of parenting and homeschooling.

Five Misconceptions About Rest

What are your thoughts about the idea of rest? Maybe rest seems like an impossibility, too good to be true. Maybe rest seems like a lazy, easy way out for a homeschool mom. Do we really understand what true rest is? Let's look at 5 common misconceptions about rest.

Praying for Your Homeschool Year

You've been busy preparing for your new homeschool year. Hopefully, you're already convinced that the best way to prepare is by intentionally praying.  But what are you going to pray? Praying Scripture is always a good idea, so today we're looking at 10 verses you can pray for your homeschool year.

The Best Way to Prepare for Your Homeschool Year

You;ve been diligent in preparing for your family's homeschool year by considering your activities, buying curriculum, and creating schedules. Hopefully, you have prepared yourself mentally just in case the plan doesn't work exactly as expected. But have you done the most important thing to prepare for your homeschool year? Let's find out.

Mentally Preparing for Your Homeschool Year

As the beginning of the homeschool year draws near, you have probably been busy preparing. Are you mentally prepared that things might not go as expected? Are you emotionally prepared to continue even if homeschool life gets hard? Let's talk about 3 ways we as homeschool moms can prepare mentally and emotionally for the upcoming homeschool year.