Homeschool How-to's Podcasts

Laying the foundation for academics: why bother to educate our children. 25 minutes. To read this, order the booklet/e-book.

Additional practical godly loving strategies for training your young child. Includes: drawing stick figure eye-openers, raising up a shield of expertise in your child, and how to love your child without spoiling him. 25 minutes. For more tips like these, read Beyond Discipline: Train Your Child’s Character.

Practical godly loving strategies for training your young child. 25 minutes. For more tips like these, read Beyond Discipline: Train Your Child’s Character.

A brief discussion of capitalism, socialism and the biblical model. 25 minutes.

Trade in naiveté for bedrock thinking. Learn how to detect the logical errors in scores of statements manipulators (such as the media and cults) attempt to use on you—explaining and exposing numerous types of logical fallacies. Includes hilarious examples for developing serious mental survival skills. 26 minutes.

Train your children in logical thinking—because we are created in the image of the One who is The Thinker and He exhorts us to be “shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). 25 minutes. This is available in your choice of an e-book or a printed booklet. For much more, order the Kindle book, Teaching Gifted Children.

A whole new way to look at dinnertime in your home: the daily gift of beauty. This is part 2: the drama: how you can best serve the people who enjoy the dinners you provide. Also, College in the Kitchen: some starter tips for approaching your kitchen as if it were a college course in kitchen management. This broadcast closes with additional examples of table settings drawn from actual dinners served at Renee’s Creative Homemaking seminars. 24 minutes.

Ideas for making dinnertime at your home very creative. How to up the enjoyment of our meals and the depth of our relationships. This is part 1: the stage: your table settings. Includes examples of table settings drawn from actual dinners served at Renee’s Creative Homemaking seminars. 25 minutes. To read this, order the booklet/e-book.

Two more stories of families who got themselves out of mortgage debt, and concluding thoughts on getting out of house debt. 23 minutes.

Six additional inspirational stories of families who got themselves out of mortgage debt. 25 minutes.

Why get out of mortgage debt—and three motivational true stories of ordinary people who found ways to get free of house debt. 25 minutes.

Additional interior design principles that show the love and creativity of God to everyone who enters your home. 27.5 minutes.

Interior design principles that show the love and creativity of God to all who enter your home. 25 minutes. This topic is available in print and as a regular e-book as Rooms with a Message.

How to bring out the best in your home for you and your family to live in now (not only if you are wanting to sell it). Ideas and tips of where to put time and effort, and how to approach it. 25 minutes. To view this with color illustrations, order the e-book or the Kindle book, Home Staging: Putting the best face on your home.

Thoughts on when and how a parent can tell his/her child about sex—instead of peers, magazines and media telling him or her. 25 minutes. To read about a Godly way to teach your child about the facts of life, download the e-book.

A final list of additional types of speeches your child can learn how to give. At the close of this podcast, Renee gives a 19th century speech on gratitude—to help prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving. 25 minutes.

Practical tips on teaching your children how to give various types of public speeches (testimonial, debate, acceptance speech, ad hoc public speech on an assigned topic). 25 minutes.

How to train your children to give influential public speeches. Includes a rendition of Patrick Henry’s famous (and timely) speech in Philadelphia on March 23, 1775: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death. 25 minutes. For more, order the booklet/e-book/Kindle book, Learn to Speak with Ease.

Why you as a godly homeschooler can have hope today—no matter what your day is looking like. Homeschooling is one of the last hopes for a falling civilization. 25 minutes. To order the phonics program (the fastest method for teaching your child how to read), see the Kindle book Teach Phonics Faster (Kindle version)—also available as a regular PDF ebook and in printed form.

Simple arguments for Special Creation and against the Theory of Evolution—to teach your children. This is especially timely as we read the first chapters of Genesis. 25 minutes. To read more, order the e-book, Creation vs. Evolution.