Homeschooling IRL

Homeschooling IRL


Latest Episodes

Cultures and a Heart for the World – HIRL Episode 153
February 28, 2024

Ever wonder how to give your kids a healthy love for the world and a desire to know other cultures? How about making missions an every day part of your homeschool and home life? What if you can't trav

When Mom Loses Control Of Her Mouth – HIRL Episode 55
February 17, 2024

Spicy words? Uncontrolled tongues? What do you do when Mom is the one to lose control of her mouth and damages the ones she loves with sharp words? One of our faithful HIRLers called in asking us to answer these questions, so we dove right in. -

Homeschooling Through Hard Times
August 03, 2023

Hard times! As much as we might like it to be, life is not all ponies, rainbows, and watercolor daisies.

Replay | The Homeschool Budget – HIRL Episode 97
July 18, 2023

The Homeschool Budget is part one of a series of three podcast episodes dealing withthe topic of financial fear. Thank you to our sponsor, CTC Math. Witha family of 8 kids, Fletch and Kendra know th

Affording College – HIRL Episode 126
July 11, 2023

When our students hope to go to college, the perennial question remains: how in the world will they pay for it? We decided to return to the topic of affording college with College Prep GeniusJean Bur

REPLAY | Back To School – HIRL Episode 116
July 05, 2023

Are you starting your school year? We are!Let's gather around the teacher's lounge and gear up for another year of teaching our kids at home. Fletch and Kendra are starting their 19th year of homesch

What Homeschooling Does To A Marriage – HIRL Episode 17
June 01, 2023

You are going to want to grab your spouse for this episode! Fletch and Kendra dive right into the middle of the topic and discuss how the stress of homeschooling can leak into your marriage relationsh

Homeschooling is a Buzzkill Remix – Episode 83
May 24, 2023

Wait! This is NOT a rebroadcast of an old episode! Homeschooling is a Buzzkill has been one of our most popular downloads, so wedecided to sit down and record a completely new episode. After more tha

I Love Homeschooling But I Hate Teaching Math – HIRL Episode 31
May 17, 2023

Hate math? And I hate teaching science.Andwriting. Or. . . Let's get real homeschoolers. Most of us have at least one subject we don't enjoy teaching. What? That is difficult to justify when we are

Love In The House
May 11, 2023

Want to know what it takes to have love in the house? What happens when a family goes from relying on rules and rigidity to understanding what it means when Jesus tells us that the grandest commandmen