Christian homeschool encouragement with practical conviction.
Let's Talk Homeschool treats home education as a family, spiritual, and practical calling. Conversations move from science lessons and Charlotte Mason habits to devotional reflection, cultural courage, and the everyday work of raising children at home.
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Let's Talk Homeschool is a Christian home education program shaped around the daily and long-range work of raising children at home. The show treats homeschooling as academics, but never only academics. Science, literature, family habits, devotion, cultural responsibility, and children’s spiritual formation all belong in the same conversation. Davis Carmen frequently leads interviews with guests from Apologia and related homeschool ministries. The pace is conversational and reassuring. It also has a clear point of view. Episodes spend substantial time on science, curiosity, and the value of children asking questions in ordinary places such as the beach, the backyard, or the dinner table. Sherry Seligson and Jeannie Fulbright help draw science away from worksheets alone and toward observation, wonder, and a love of learning. Charlotte Mason ideas recur through conversations with Tessa Carmen and Julie Ross, especially attention, nature, beauty, shared readings, and gentler daily rhythms. The devotional episodes bring Scripture directly into the frame, asking how Christians should understand wisdom, order, chaos, and meaning. Cultural episodes stretch beyond lesson planning. A conversation with John Stonestreet connects homeschooling to courage, adulthood, and Christian faithfulness in a difficult public moment. The episode on birth rates is more pointed, arguing from a Christian view of children as blessing and pushing back on cultural pessimism about family life. The show’s best fit is a parent who wants encouragement with backbone: practical enough for curriculum and routines, but consistently interested in what education is forming in the soul. It is not neutral on theology or culture. It is built for listeners who want Christian assumptions stated plainly and applied to home, children, learning, and public life.
Made for: Christian homeschooling parents and families who want encouragement, curriculum-adjacent conversation, and a faith-shaped vision for home education. It especially suits listeners drawn to Apologia, Charlotte Mason ideas, science, and cultural engagement.
What sets it apart: The show connects day-to-day homeschool practice with theological reflection and long-term formation. It moves easily from beach science and read-aloud rhythms to Proverbs, birth rates, and Christian courage in public life.
Join Davis and Rachael Carman as they talk all about the homeschool journey–the highs, the lows, the challenges, the victories, and everything in between. By God’s grace, this adventure of a lifetime — called home education — has been very good for their family. Join the homeschool discussion every two weeks and be encouraged, challenged, and inspired. Brought to you by Apologia
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns Christian homeschooling philosophy into practical conversations about curiosity, family learning, science, and the habits parents cultivate at home.
Davis Carmen keeps bringing large educational questions back to the ordinary work of teaching children at home. Guest conversations move between science instruction, Charlotte Mason's ideas, shared family learning, and the habits that preserve a child's curiosity.
A bucket of beach crabs might make you rethink what counts as science class.
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Science, faith, and homeschooling meet in a conversation grounded in lived family experience.
Let's Talk Homeschool presents Sherry Seligson's path from marine biologist at Walt Disney World's Living Seas Pavilion to homeschooling four children through high school, and uses that story to raise a familiar but meaningful question about science, curiosity, and faith at…
A homeschool conversation about depth, curiosity, and keeping science alive at home.
The episode puts science in homeschooling at the center, and Jeannie Fulbright argues for depth over speed: let a child linger with one topic long enough to grasp it, feel awe, and develop a real love of learning.
A Charlotte Mason conversation about curiosity, attention, and the daily work of homeschooling.
This Charlotte Mason conversation stays close to the daily work of homeschooling: how children learn, why they ask so many questions, and why that hunger for knowledge deserves protection.
A focused homeschool conversation about Julie Ross, A Gentle Feast, and a gentler daily rhythm.
Let's Talk Homeschool keeps the focus on Julie Ross and A Gentle Feast, with Davis Carmen tracing a rhythm that includes Bible, music, art, read alouds, handicrafts, nature walks, and current events.
A firmly Christian case for seeing children as a blessing amid falling birth rates and family uncertainty.
Birth rates open the alarm, but the episode is really about how Christian homeschoolers are meant to understand children. Davis and Rachel Karman link population decline in several countries to a wider culture they believe has trained a generation to avoid parenthood, then press…
A homeschool conversation that links cultural courage to the work of raising adults.
Let's Talk Homeschool uses a conversation with John Stonestreet to frame Truth Rising, the Focus on the Family and Coulson Center documentary, as a call for ordinary Christians to respond to the current crisis of Western civilization with clarity, confidence, and courage.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Melanie Hempe discusses preventing and reversing childhood screen addiction through education and community.
Let's Talk Homeschool, brought to you by Apologia Educational Ministries, has Davis Carmen interviewing Sherry Seligson about teaching science at home.
Jeannie Fulbright tells Davis Carmen that homeschooling science works best when parents and children learn together through narration, observation, and notebooking.
A devotional episode exploring whether life has meaning or is meaningless, drawing from Proverbs and 1 Corinthians.
Davis Carmen interviews his daughter-in-law Tessa Carmen on Let's Talk Homeschool, the Apologia Educational Ministries show, about Charlotte Mason and homeschooling.
Host Davis Carman interviews Julie Ross, creator of the Charlotte Mason-based "A Gentle Feast" homeschool curriculum, about building a family-style, multi-age homeschool routine.
Let's Talk Homeschool #284, 'Birth-Dearth,' opens with Davis and Rachel Karman citing a U.S.
Let's Talk Homeschool #283 frames 2026 goal setting around one annual priority, quarterly focus, and weekly review.
Mary's Christmas-season monologue traces her account of becoming Yeshua's mother, from an angel's announcement to rejection of her and Joseph by their community.
Davis Carmen interviews John Stonestreet on Let's Talk Homeschool about Truth Rising, a free documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center.
Davis Carmen interviews Ben Myers about his family's homeschool background and the creation of The Actor's Bible, a resource for Christian actors.
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Hudson Wild shares his family's unique homeschooling journey as missionary kids in the jungles of Papua, Indonesia, and how they now run a video production business and ministry.