Sometimes, you just wish you could have someone in your ear encouraging you on your day to day homeschooling life. That’s the beauty of podcasts. You can call up an episode on a specific topic or with a specific expert and get some insight into whatever you need help with. Or even just get re-inspired to continue on. Or a new idea to make life flow easier. Here are a few Canadian podcasts which are great for homeschool parents.
make joy normal: cozy homeschooling – Bonnie Landry
In the context of promoting joy, fun and an environment of love, Bonnie welcomes you! Bonnie is a homeschool mom of seven kids, 31 years in – writer, speaker and cheerleader. Meet her cohosts who bring your questions and theirs to the table: Elizabeth, mom of five, in the thick of glorious family life, and Christina, just starting the homeschool journey with two littles. Join us for some honest discussion about how to make home education cozy. Just like you imagined.
If you have joined into the Canadian Online Homeschool Conference over the last few years, you might have heard Bonnie speak. She’s got such a practical, calm perspective on life and homeschooling that you leave feeling like you can do anything. In this podcast, Bonnie is joined with a variety of guests to tackle some big questions like community, socialization, getting started, mom guilt, winter blues, and much, much more. Note: Bonnie is Catholic and this is talked about openly in this podcast.
Canada Homeschools – Rowan Atkinson
For Canadian Homeschoolers, this podcast will feature interviews with home educators, resource suppliers, group organizers, all from a Canadian perspective.
Rowan is the voice you hear on the audio program, Headphone History. In her podcast, she interviews different Canadian parents who homeschool as well as tackles a lot of different topics from burnout, to organization, to getting into post-secondary school. Her voice is one of steady experience and wisdom, and this Canadian podcast is intentionally designed for homeschoolers.
Keep Calm and Homeschool On – Rebecca Spooner
Homeschool help, homeschool resources, homeschool encouragement, homeschool curriculum reviews, parenting advice, Christian encouragement and more from my chaos to yours!
Although it looks like Rebecca stopped podcasting at the end of 2020, she has a great backlist of episodes all about homeschooling. Look at some of the early episodes for discussions about real life homeschooling, curriculum options and reviews, and making it all work. As a second-generation homeschooler, Rebecca has a unique perspective on the experience! Note: Rebecca is a Christian and talks about it openly on her podcast.
The Genuine Mom – Jaymee Davis
Being a mom is tough, even more so when we live in a digital society that only posts that highlights. My goal? to be real! Thus The Genuine Mom! I’ll be having experts are various topics from homeschool to anxiety. Some of the exciting topics: Anxiety, Homeschool, Health, Chronic Illness, Self-care, and so much more.
With a podcast name like The Genuine Mom, Jaymee does exactly what you’d expect – get down and dirty with hard topics about parenting, life, and homeschooling. Some of the conversations covered so far are mental health, guilt, burnout, pressure, self-care, and depression. It’s kind of a no-holds-barred kind of podcast.
Homeschool Mama Self-Care – Teresa Wiedrick
Homeschool mama’s self-care needs are easily overlooked with a steady stream of childhood needs and interpersonal interactions.
After raising and homeschooling five kids, Teresa knows a lot about the importance of self-care. In fact, she wrote a whole book about it. In her podcast, she focuses a lot of the emotional side of homeschooling – feelings like overwhelm, confidence, and burnout. She often has special guests to talk about different areas of the homeschool life and covers all kind of topics from planning your year and simplifying your homeschool life.
Exploring Unschooling – Pam Laricchia
Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, unschooling mom and author. Enjoy in-depth interviews with veteran unschooling parents sharing their family’s experience, dig into a wide range of unschooling topics with experienced guests, and get answers to listener questions in the Q&A episodes. Choosing to live and learn without school isn’t as intimidating as you might imagine. Children really do love learning when it’s driven by curiosity rather than curriculum, and the strong and trusting relationships that develop in unschooling families are priceless.
With 300 episodes, Pam’s podcast has enough content to keep you busy for a long time! Many episodes feature special guests sharing their unschooling stories, successes, and experiences to show you exactly how the lifestyle works so you can approach unschooling with confidence.
Families Matter Most – Jenn Dean
The best way to teach kids is to reach their hearts. Family Coach Jenn Dean shares practical tools to connect with your kids to get real results and encourage you to keep trying when it’s tough.
Although her podcast is more about parenting than homeschooling, I’m still adding it to the list because we all know that the two are highly intermingled. In her podcast, Jenn shares her parenting wisdom on topics like sibling rivalry, racism, anxiety, chores, resiliance, and so much more. Sometimes she has special guests join her in the conversation as well.
Renewed Mama – Kimberly Muhtar
Welcome to Renewed Mama, a conversational mama to mama podcast that explores what it really means to be a Renewed Mama. Every week I deliver real talk, actionable tips and scripts, and take away’s to help you to renew your mind and the words you speak as well as your parenting approach so that you choose joy, speak belief, and thrive, not just survive.
This Christian podcast focuses more on parenting than homeschooling (although there are some episodes about homeschooling too!) – it offers some great wisdom that is worth sharing. She has a gentle approach to conversation which is easy to learn from. Topics to date include things like word choices in various situations, stopping negativity, handling temper tantrums, motivating kids, lies kids believe, self-control, and more.
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Hi Lisa-Marie! Thanks for including me here! I so appreciate it.