Christian homeschool encouragement with real-life texture.
Learning Little Lessons is a Christian homeschooling show centered on encouragement, friendship, and everyday discipleship for homeschool moms. Trudi Schaar brings in authors, speakers, and local women whose stories connect home education with faith, family, hardship, and growth.
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Learning Little Lessons is a Christian homeschooling show about the small spiritual lessons that gather inside home life, teaching, parenting, friendship, illness, and ordinary pressure. Trudi Schaar presents the show as encouragement for homeschool moms, with a steady emphasis on Jesus, perseverance, and women helping one another keep going. The episodes in this window show a feed that is more relational than instructional. It does offer practical help, but the practical help usually arrives through stories. A local Homeschool Mom’s Night becomes several recordings, including Tara Maxheimer speaking about her cancer journey, Michelle Silvestri teaching from Scripture, Kelly Nussbaum talking about reconciliation in the home, and a panel answering questions from different seasons of homeschool life. Those recordings give the show a gathered-community texture. It sounds close to church life, kitchen-table counsel, and the kind of encouragement passed between women who know the stress of children, curriculum, family, work, caregiving, and faith. The author interviews widen the frame. Darcy Schock talks about releasing her first novel, the family history behind it, and the desire to honor soldiers and families whose lives were changed by war. Tricia Goyer and Sherri Seligson discuss Wonders of the Ocean Realm, ocean creatures, storytelling, and learning from the created world. Sherri Seligson also appears in a conversation about children growing on their own timing, with her homeschooling experience and science work in view. The show is gentle, but not weightless. Infertility, depression, cancer treatment, PTSD, unhealthy marriage, family conflict, and sin are all named in the material provided. It does not turn those subjects into spectacle. Instead, it folds them into a Christian framework of obedience, healing, repentance, friendship, and trust. The pacing is conversational, and the register is plainspoken. Learning Little Lessons suits a listener who wants faith-forward homeschool encouragement with recognizable mess still in the room. Its center is not expert distance. Its center is a host gathering women, stories, and Scripture around the work of building a home.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants Christian homeschool encouragement shaped by testimony, Scripture, mom-to-mom conversation, and practical family realities. It is especially fitting for someone looking for warmth without avoiding hard subjects.
What sets it apart: Learning Little Lessons stands apart through its mix of local Homeschool Mom’s Night recordings, author conversations, and personal testimony. The show keeps Christian homeschooling tied to lived stories rather than treating it as a set of tips alone.
The Learning Little Lessons podcast is where we talk about the little lessons God is teaching us. Learning how to fill up on Jesus, so we can pour out to others. All the while bringing Him more glory.Grab a salted-carmel hot cocoa (my favorite), put your feet up .... okay, okay, I know all that sounds blissful, but reality is you got work to do ... so what ever you’re doing put in those headphones and let’s tune it all out and have a chat.
A brownie nobody eats becomes the Bible lesson you probably won't forget.
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Tara Maxheimer describes cancer, treatment, and faith as a difficult journey of being remolded.
At a local homeschool moms night, Trudi Schaar introduces Tara Maxheimer, whose story of cancer, faith, and homeschooling becomes less a neat testimony than a reflection on surrendering the life she thought she was walking toward.
A memorable brownie story frames a faith-centered warning about how even subtle changes can spoil the truth.
Learning Little Lessons turns a homeschool moms night into a close, faith-centered reflection on how easily truth can be bent. Michelle Silvestri draws on her life as the oldest of nine and her own homeschooling background, then anchors the message with a hard-to-forget brownie…
A warm homeschool-minded look at ocean science, storytelling, and creation-centered wonder.
Wonders of the Ocean Realm gets framed as more than a natural history title here: it becomes a way into homeschool science that starts with curiosity and moves toward story.
A homeschool panel offers grounded encouragement on faith, companionship, curriculum fit, and each child's individuality.
Learning Little Lessons gathers four homeschool mothers for a practical panel on encouraging one another through very different seasons. Shannon is still early in homeschooling, Gina is balancing lessons with piano and speech therapy work, Stephanie is caring for an elderly…
Homeschooling talk for real family seasons.
Trudi Scharr interviews Darcy Schock about her journey writing and releasing her first novel while homeschooling.
Trudi Schaar frames this Learning Little Lessons recording as Tara Maxheimer's talk from a homeschool moms night in Wayne and surrounding counties.
Trudi Schaar opens Learning Little Lessons with a recording from the Wayne-area homeschool moms night, where Michelle Silvestri speaks on "Tending to Your Heart." Michelle says she has been married to David for 18 years, homeschools five children, and grew up as the oldest of nine children who were homeschooled.
Sherry Seligson says the peacock mantis shrimp punches so fast it boils water, and that fact sits inside Wonders of the Ocean Realm, a January 7 book for ages 9-13.
Learning Little Lessons' "Homeschool Mom's Night — Building up in each Season — Question Panel" puts Tony in the moderator role and brings four moms with different seasons of homeschooling to the microphone.
Kelly Nussbaum shares insights on building a home culture of reconciliation among homeschooled children.
Carrie Kramer builds her talk around Proverbs 14:1, “Every wise woman buildeth her house,” and contrasts building a home with tearing it down.
In Learning Little Lessons’ Sister Share workshop, Trudy Shar connects Christian calling with keeping focus on family and service.
Marcia Ruffner, a teacher at Heritage Private School since the early 2000s, describes losing her husband Kevin and says her story has "God's goodness and faithfulness written all over it." She credits 10 years of biblical counseling with helping her process infertility, a difficult marriage and widowhood, and says she moved past the shame she felt when parking at the counselor's office.
Sherri Seligson discusses how parents can support their children's growth according to God's timing, especially when they seem to be behind.
A conversation with Cheryl Kischuk about homeschooling, faith, and the lessons God teaches through family life.
Rachel Rauch discusses finding rest amidst burnout, focusing on adrenal and cortisol issues.