My guest today is Janie Scanlan who talked with me last week about homeschooling and the lead up to her daughter’s winning of The Miss America crown in 2011!  We will be continuing our conversation from where we left it on the stage in Las Vegas.  Janie is a homeschooling mother of six ranging…

My guest today is Janie Scanlan homeschooling mother of six ranging in age from 13-26.  Janie lives in Gehring, Nebraska.  Janie’s husband, Mark, is a child and adult psychiatrist who leaves his job at the office.  Praise the Lord!  We are going to be talking about good old fashioned homeschooling, how we responded to our…

  I’m thrilled to welcome back my Blue Eyed Cowboy this week to chat about the events that have been going on our life.  Making the transition from hands on parents to empty nesters has been quite a ride as he’ll tell you!   Father of the four children we homeschooled he brought his guitar, his…

  Putting yourself into someone else’s shoes.  This is empathy.  When I was growing up I don’t know if I ever consciously did this because today I find myself asking, “Hey, what if someone said or did that to me!?”  when I am ranting at or criticizing someone near and dear to me who lives…

  This week my military homeschooling Mum, Aadel Bussinger, is returning as my guest. The last time we spoke Aadel was all set to pitch her temporary tent in Seoul, South Korea, where her husband is deployed.   Today we are going to be talking about her move, with her three children, by herself, with a…

  My guest this week is fellow Brit Theodora Sutcliffe who describes herself as nomad, meaning she and her twelve-year-old son Zac, live anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere and have done so for three years!  They travel pretty much all the time after finishing their first year and realizing they couldn’t see the world in 12…

I am a Benedictine at heart, I believe in moderation and balance, equal parts of prayer, work and leisure. This includes eating, working out, talking, hanging out, spending time with the Lord and loved ones.

  I always like to have graduated homeschoolers on my show and my guest this week is returning to talk about how his life has taken a change in direction since he was last with me. Joshua Williams is an English, lifelong homeschooler, the oldest son in a family of five boys and one girl….

With me today are Tom and Julie Meekins who have a heart for parents, especially those who are raising challenging children.  Julie has been a guest on my show a couple of times and you can go back and hear her story about her youngest daughter diagnosed with CHARGE Syndrome as an infant.  They were…

    My guest today is a graduated unschooler with an innovative outlook on life.  Jessica Barker is 23-years-old, an autodidact with a great love for traveling anywhere and learning anything.  After two highly successful years spent keeping a blog called Life Without College, Jessica started College Rebellion to reach a wider audience with a greater amount and…

I have to admit, now that I’ve been homeschooling for 20 years or so I am starting to doubt myself!  I have two college graduates, both working in their chosen field and another child certified to teach special needs also working in her field, and here I am experiencing doubt.  I listen to the academic…

Fellow homeschoolers we are so lucky to be able to modify our instruction to suit our children, the trick is finding out the best way our children want to learn. Mariaemma Willis has a profile on line that you can access to discover not only what your children’s learning styles are but also what yours is. Go onto her website at www.learningsuccessprofile.com and take the test.

One of my guests this week is a homeschooled homeschooler the other one was most impressed by a homeschooler she met at college!  Leah Shingleton is the mother of five children and the illustrator of two phonics books, A Pretty Girl was Alpha Bette and A Funny Boy was Prince River, both written by her…

I am looking at a beautiful photograph of a young mother and her son.  She has long brown hair and her arms are wrapped protectively around her beloved child.  This is Annie and her son’s name is Domenic.  They have been ripped apart by their government.  In June 2009 Swedish police boarded a plane bound…

I have one of my favourite people to chat to on my show today, my youngest child and daughter, Malia McNeny.  Malia has been sailing the high seas since August 1st and has been to fourteen countries already!  She is a graduated homeschooler, of course, who has wanted to be a performer ever since her first…

Hugh deBurgh writes about life, family, real men, love, relationships, unschooling and his parenting style of living life intentionally. Listen and start the transformation!

Jody Halsted tells us we don’t have to travel very far to create lasting memories

I am honoured to welcome Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes fame to my show and I know you will be both motivated and delighted by this amazing woman.

Larry Kay is founder and president of Animal Wow a great company that promotes Judeo-Christian family values of love and responsibility in its work to help children become safe and successful with pets. Animal Wow has also won many awards from parenting groups, in children’s media, and in the pet industry. I myself love pets and I pointed…

      This week I am bringing you the second half of my conversation with Lainie Liberti and her son Miro who are living in Peru at the moment as they make their way slowly around the world.  Lainie, with some help from Miro, authors a blog and podcast, Raising Miro on the Road…