GOAT Homeschooling with Erin and Amanda
Welcome to GOAT Homeschooling with Erin and Amanda. We've created the podcast we wish WE could've listened to all these years we've been home educating our kids. We will discuss the rights and wrongs of trying to homeschool for the "long haul," in other words, past those first five years ... and what we've learned works and doesn't. It's time to have the conversation with other homeschoolers about getting your kids to the finish line in a strong and excellent way. We've got a lot of great info to share and we're looking forward to having you listen in. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts.
Episodes
60 episodes
GOAT 59: Homeschool Graduation & Beyond
Erin has graduated her first homeschooled student! Listen this week as Erin & Amanda talk through their first graduation experiences and what comes next in their homeschools. We hope you are encouraged! Refe...
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36:16
GOAT 58: Spring Transitions
Listen in this week as Erin & Amanda catch up and talk through transitions each are facing in their lives and homeschools. Have you leaned in to your homeschooling community when you've needed to? Have you sent an email to explo...
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32:08
GOAT 57: The Cost Of College with Brad Baldridge
This week, Erin & Amanda talk with College Funding Consultant Brad Baldridge about the cost of college, the planning it takes and the way to pay for it. There are a lot of ins and outs to pursuing college for any student and their fam...
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47:06
GOAT #56: Raising Godly Girls with Patti Garibay
Listen this week as Erin & Amanda talk with Patti Garibay, Founder and CEO of American Heritage Girls. Patti shares about her life in the 90s going through Girl Scouts and how she felt led to start AHG. Patti is a wonderful ...
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36:44
GOAT #55: Stress and the Homeschool Mom with Larissa Darter
So often, homeschooling parents are stressed, feeling like the world is on our shoulders. Listen as Erin and Amanda talk with therapist, Larissa Darter about those homeschooling and life stressors. They talk about what to look for...
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56:52
GOAT #54: Homeschooling Entrepreneurship with The Homeschool Printing Company
Do you have entrepreneurial students in your homeschool? Listen this week as Amanda talks with CEO and founder of The Homeschool Printing Company, Melissa Ekloff as they talk about encouraging entrepreneurship for your students. How...
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31:09
GOAT #53: Deschooling with Laura Swain
Did you pull your kids out of school and suddenly feel like you were free falling off a cliff, wondering what you'd gotten yourself into and completely anxious about what to do next? Join us this week as we talk through "deschooling" ...
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45:09
GOAT #52: Homeschooling FAQs
It's perfectly reasonable to still have questions about homeschooling, even if you've been doing it for a while ... we know we do! Sometimes questions arise just because you're in a new season, or because your kids are transitioning from ...
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37:42
GOAT #51: Helping Homeschool Mid Year Burnout
Are you feeling the "mid year burnout?" It's definitely real for homeschoolers! Generally, the weather doesn't help much, and we're all trying to stay encouraged in our teaching and not get bogged down in the lessons that might just...
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40:48
GOAT #50: Helping Boys Become Godly Men with Mark Hancock of Trail Life USA
Why can't the educational, social or emotional needs of our boys be met in traditional schools? How can we help our sons to love learning, feel valued and still have that drive and enthusiasm that will spur them on to pursue their interests and...
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41:48
GOAT #49: Conveying Truth in Fiction and Family Devotions with Tim Shoemaker
Are you a homeschooling family that struggles to find devotions that teach spiritual truth but also hold your kids' attention? Do you wish you could find clean, riveting fiction for your children to read that doesn't shy away from real-life cha...
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43:25
GOAT #48: Lessons Learned Writing Historical Fiction with Jenny L. Cote
Sometimes homeschoolers struggle with teaching history, but it *can* be made fun for kids of all ages through field trips, projects, even historical fiction! Have you considered that we can instill a love of history in our children as wel...
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45:55
GOAT #47: A Father's Perspective on Homeschooling with Joe McGhee
In today's episode, Erin and Amanda speak with Joe McGhee, Erin's husband, for his perspective as a husband and father in their family's homeschooling journey. Erin and Joe have homeschooled their four kids (three teens!) over a span of t...
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47:49
GOAT #46: Gameschooling and More with Cait Curley
Do you have that one kid that just fights you on learning, whether it be one subject or all of them? Have you considered using games to move the learning along, called "gameschooling?" When children play games, they learn soci...
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48:28
GOAT #45: Inspiring Our Homeschool Girls to Live Their Dreams with Heather Stark
Having the hard conversations with our daughters who are homeschooled is just as necessary as it is in traditional education settings. Whether it's social media expectations and "beauty culture" or fitting in versus belonging, our girls n...
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34:50
GOAT #44: Homeschool Wisdom of Steve Lambert, Five in a Row
Erin and Amanda welcome Steve Lambert this week to discuss homeschooling past, present and future. Steve brings homeschool wisdom and keen insight on the things we need to do now to ensure our family's homeschool success in the long haul....
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32:31
GOAT #43: Creating Healthy Families with Katie Keene
Wouldn't you love for your homeschool to be built on a foundation that is less stressful and more peaceful so your family can thrive?In today's episode, Erin and Amanda speak with Katie Keene, host of the Her Home and Heart with Kat...
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35:48
GOAT #42: Jamie Erickson on Holy Hygge and Homeschooling
Are you longing for a peaceful homeschool, wanting to rid your home of the chaos and clatter? Atmosphere has little to do with how you decorate ... and more about creating tranquility that is welcoming to our family and visitors alike. We...
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40:27
GOAT #41: Writing From the Heart with Veldorah Rice
Some of our homeschool students just don't like writing, and it can be a struggle to get them to put words on a page. How can we teach it in a way that helps them to develop their authentic writing voices and still learn and grow in impor...
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48:11
GOAT #40: Intensity and Homeschool Moms
It can be so hard to hear, "you're so intense..," even from friends or family! Why are some of us so laser-focused on whatever we put our attention to, whether it's our home, our spouses, our homeschools, or even the outside activities we...
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33:02
GOAT #39: Community Through Coaching and Conference with Christina Carpenter
Building community in homeschooling can sometimes be hard. While larger cities and suburbs might have co-ops and in-person activities where you can meet like-minded homeschoolers, sometimes there just aren't those resources readily availa...
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23:18
GOAT #38: Conflict Happens in Homeschooling Communities
In most relationships, there will be conflict, and it's just as true for homeschooling communities. Whether the situation is your child facing relationship issues with other homeschooled kids or irreconciliable differences you might have ...
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31:47
GOAT #37: Unbusy Homeschooling with Alyssa Wolff
How can we get less busy in this homeschool life? From running kids to activities, keeping the house reasonably orderly and trying to get some schoolwork in the "in between" of life, many homeschool moms are just flat-out exhausted and need to ...
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37:14
GOAT #36: Financial Hardship and Homeschooling
As a homeschooling parent, do you sometimes feel pressure to bring in extra income into your family? The reasons might be because of employment changes, the economy being tight or sudden expenses that need to be met. Some families e...
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27:36
GOAT #35: Homesteading in Your Homeschool with Kody Hanner
With the events of the last few years impacting "cost of living" items, more families are wanting to re-connect with the sources of their food and live a lifestyle that is more self-sufficient. This "modern day homesteading" doesn't require you...
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