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Faith-shaped homeschool encouragement for real family days.
Coffee With Carrie offers faith-framed homeschool guidance with a warm, conversational pace. Episodes move from practical questions like physical education, meals, and reading time to bigger pressures around comparison, socialization, ADHD, and whether a homeschool day is truly enough.
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Coffee With Carrie is a Christian homeschooling show built around encouragement, simplicity, and the daily realities of educating children at home. Its central concern is not how to create an impressive homeschool life. It is how to keep going with less guilt, more steadiness, and a clearer sense of what matters. The show often returns to the same pressure many homeschool mothers feel: the suspicion that everyone else is doing more, planning better, or raising a mythical perfect family. It pushes back with humor and concrete advice. Movement counts. Breakfast can become part of school. A short walk can reset a hard lesson. Personal reading still matters for mothers, even when it happens through audiobooks, unfinished books, or small pockets of time. The show treats home education as a whole household pattern, where worship, reading, meals, chores, nature, creativity, problem-solving, and care for others all belong in the day. Guest conversations add texture. Mandy Davis appears in a discussion about trading school administration for the kitchen table and rethinking socialization. Lori Beth Auldridge joins a conversation about meals, rhythms, and homestead-style responsibilities. Katie Klein talks through personal reading and the freedom to read in different formats. April Pettyjohn brings ADHD into the frame, especially the way accommodations, boredom, boundaries, and self-regulation affect both academics and ordinary routines. The tone is gentle, Christian, and mother-to-mother, but it is also willing to challenge comparison and overwork. For families looking for faith-shaped homeschool counsel that sees the kitchen, the bookshelf, the backyard, and the restless child as part of education, it offers a familiar, grounded place to land.
Made for: The show is for Christian homeschool mothers who want practical support for daily rhythms, family learning, and the emotional pressure of doing enough. It especially suits parents looking for encouragement that includes faith, humor, and home-centered routines.
What sets it apart: Coffee With Carrie stands out by treating homeschooling as a full household ecosystem rather than only curriculum planning. Its advice connects academics with meals, movement, worship, reading, chores, attention needs, and a mother's own well-being.
Sit down, relax, and take a little coffee break with Carrie. Using biblical principles, years of experience, and a little bit of humor, Carrie De Francisco offers homeschooling advice, tips, and ideas to moms who have been called to this homeschooling adventure. Weekly coffee breaks and conversations with Carrie will give you the support and encouragement you need to help you homeschool one day at a time, one step at a time, and one cup of coffee at a time. Author of Just Breathe ( & Take a Sip of Coffee): Homeschool Simply & Enjoyably, Homeschool High School: A Handbook for Christian Education, and A Home Education Handbook: 9 Questions to Ask for Simple and Balanced Home-Based Learning.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Carrie De Francisco turns homeschooling pressures into concrete adjustments for attention, movement, meals, reading, and family routines.
Carrie De Francisco treats home education as a daily practice shaped around actual family life. Guest conversations and solo episodes move between ADHD accommodations, meal routines, personal reading, social development, and physical activity, with the host consistently asking…
Breakfast Bible time works better with full mouths; Carrie De Francisco meets you at the table.
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A plainspoken reminder that movement belongs in homeschool, not on the margins.
Carrie makes a straightforward case for treating movement as part of homeschool, not something left over after the real work is done. She keeps coming back to the same idea: exercise, free time, and PE belong in the day alongside academics.
Warm homeschool encouragement grounded in practical, parent-led advice.
Mandy Davis keeps this conversation grounded in the realities of home education. As a public school principal turned home educator, she treats homeschooling as paced and parent led, and the strongest moments come when she answers the socialization question with plain examples:…
A practical, faith-forward conversation about using meals and routines to shape a homeschool day.
Homeschool life here is framed through breakfast, devotionals, lunch, and the daily work of getting children moving together. The discussion stays close to lived routine, from reading after breakfast when everyone is calmer to using an audiobook as a shared timer.
A gentle nudge for moms trying to read without turning it into another chore.
Keri Dee and Katie present personal reading as something that can fit inside a homeschool life already full of competing demands. Their advice is practical and grounded: audiobooks can carry pleasure reading, paperbacks can be kept for heavier or note-taking books, and a book…
A practical discussion of ADHD, homeschool routines, and the small changes that can make a hard day easier.
Keri Dee's conversation stays close to the everyday strain of homeschooling a child with ADHD, where attention drifts, tasks pile up, and routines can feel draining once boredom sets in.
Homeschooling talk for real family seasons.
Carrie Dee frames Coffee with Keri Homeschool Podcast around "movement and exercise" for kids, teens, and parents, and ties that theme to her book A Home Education Handbook.
Coffee With Carrie: Homeschool Podcast talks with Mandy Davis, a former public school principal and current homeschool mom of three children ages 4, 12, and 14.
Carrie De Francisco hosts a homeschooling podcast offering biblical advice, tips, and encouragement to Christian moms, and in this episode interviews Lori Beth Aldridge about finding confidence through creative resources.
Katie Klein says she read 210 books in 2025 after her husband bought her a Kindle, and Carrie compares that pace with her own shift toward Audible because of migraines.
Carrie Dee interviews April Pettyjohn, host of the Follow the Leader Home Education podcast, about raising and homeschooling her ADHD son Noah, one of her four children in the Ozarks, Missouri.
Jami Glenn tells host Carrie that calm is "synonymous with regulated," not Zen or silent, and ties it to the eight C's of the self from Internal Family Systems.