Welcome to episode 196 of the Restoration Home Community!!

In this episode, we're bringing you Jennifer's Inspired Homeschool Workshop, so if you missed it originally or want to listen to it on the go give it a listen.

Jennifer talks about how history was homeschooled to give you the confidence to continue homeschooling; she offers stories of our heroes who were homeschooled, like Laura Ingalls Wilder through much of her life, and lists ways we can take homeschooling to the next level by making it about raising a whole child.

If you are looking for a community to start building your inspired homeschool with, the Restoration Home is open for the next 36 hours.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

Check out the Homeschool Planner for a great way to stay organized and focused as the new year starts.

Looking for more nature and science for this year? The Peaceful Press Nature Book Flood is a beautiful addition to your school year.

In this episode:

• We want you to get excited for homeschooling!
• History was homeschooled
• Looking for a homeschool curriculum that brings life and joy? Check out the Peaceful Press Start Here Guide.
• Preorder the Inspired Homeschool for amazing bonuses and get inspired for the school year to come.
• Check out the Restoration Home Community to build your habits, homeschool, and grow lasting relationships.
• The best habits are built around daily rhythms; check out the Peaceful Press FREE Daily Rhythm Pack
• The Peaceful Press Chore Cards: the essential tool for developing good habits of order, cleanliness, work, and self-care
• Get 10% off your purchase with code "Restoration10"
• If you're looking for inspiration for a habit make-over check out: Habits for a Sacred Home by Jennifer Pepito

You can learn more about Jennifer here–

Jennifer's Instagram

Welcome to episode 194 with Jennifer Pepito, Cindy West and Alicia Hutchinson. Cindy West is the founder of Our Journey Westward a homeschool science and nature study and a long time homeschool mama. Alicia Hutchinson is the creator of Learning Well and a homeschool mama of many years.

This is such a fantastic episode whether you are starting to homeschool or in the thick of it.

Jennifer, Alicia, and Cindy talk about self-care, a Charlotte Mason education, getting outside, what their ideal homeschool day looked like, and so much more.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers.

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode:

• Finding micro-moments of self-care
• The key elements of a great homeschool day
• Foundational principles for your children
• Stewarding your marriage in every season
• What we loved about homeschooling
• You can learn more about Alicia at her Learning Well
• You can learn more about Cindy at Our Journey Westward
• If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

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You can learn more about Alicia and Cindy here:

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Welcome to episode 193 with Jennifer Pepito and Abbey Wedgeworth.

Abbey is a teacher, speaker, and author and this episode centred around her newest book Help! I'm Ruining My Kids.

We all so badly want to find the formula that will guarantee us Godly, happy, whole children, even if that formula is not having a formula or a rigid religious adherence to scripture absent God.

This is a conversation about turning to God, the difference between commiseration and counsel, how mom's at different stages can bless each-other, and so much more.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers.

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode:

• Find places where you can't pretend to be perfect
• Your children don't need you to be perfect, they need you to be stable
• Learning to take correction from the people who love us
• Your childhood woundedness is connected to your ability to show up
• Learning to see the refuge we have in God
• You can learn more about Abbey at her website and do check out her newest book!
• If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

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You can learn more about Abbey here:

Abbey's Instagram

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Welcome to episode 192 with Jennifer and Emelie.

Over her 28 years of homeschooling, one of the main reasons Jennifer has seen families quit is the fear that their child will not get the education they need. While homeschooling is not for everyone, we're here today to unpack the lie that your child is guaranteed to get a better education in a more formal system.

Children want to learn. They are naturally curious, capable of information retention, and interested in the world around them. So often the formal education that we think is "safe" offers little in the way of real life skills, kills curiosity, and creates performers, not learners.

Instead, we talk about raising whole children, whose lives are shaped by their values, not their education level because education can always be acquired while values must be instilled from a young age. Practically, everything your child needs to know academically can be acuired in a 100 hours of education. Besides, when you step back from fear and look at the general education level of the American population do you really think that your child is going to receive a better education in a system that is producing a population where 1 in every 5 adults is illiterate.

This great conversation is made possible by the Peaceful Press!

Our full length Peaceful Press Elementary Bundles give your children the opportunity to learn practical skills, read beautiful literature, and engage in a living history and applicable science. If you're not loving your current homeschool, don't wait till next year to make a change. Switch now and enjoy every moment of learning with the Peaceful Press.

In this episode–

• The brutal failures of the American education system
• All the smartest people I know taught themselves after highschool
• The most important and hardest thing for your child to acquire is a deep sense of self and a firm moral compass
• The history of home education.
• To be inspired in your homeschool journey, check out Jennifer's new book "The Inspired Homeschool"
• If you preorder, you can get your preorder bonuses at Theinspiredhomeschool.com
• Check out the Peaceful Press Amazon Storefront for all our favourite things and best recommendations.

You can learn more about Jennifer here-

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You can learn more about Emelie here-

Emelie’s Instagram

Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

*Warning*: This episode is all about sex and contains some references to traumatic experiences. Listener discretion advised.

Welcome to episode 191 with Jennifer Pepito and Laura Dugger.

Laura is the host of the Savvy Sauce Podcast and a Christian Sex therapist. This episode is not a therapy session, instead, it looks more broadly at what the Bible says about sex, the physical benefits, the gift of intimacy, and why it's supposed to be a blessing to both husband and wife.

While this episode deals with a topic a little off the wall for the Restoration Home, it's still a incredibly important one, and we hope you are inspired and encouraged.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers.

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode:

• The Biblical perspectives on sex
• Trauma should be dealt with so you can experience the fullness of what God has for you in intimacy.
• Prioritizing physical connection with your spouse even when you are touched out
• Sex should be enjoyable not a duty

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

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You can learn more about Laura here:

Laura's Instagram

Some Amazon Affiliate Links

Welcome to episode 190 with Jennifer Pepito.

This is a sneak peak into Jennifer's workshop on planning the perfect homeschool year, which you can get as part of your pre-order bonus when you purchase The Inspired Homeschool.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

Check out the Homeschool Planner for a great way to stay organized and focused as the new year starts.

Pre-order Jennifer newest book: The Inspired Homeschool.

Looking for more nature and science for this year? The Peaceful Press Nature Book Flood is a beautiful addition to your school year.

In this episode:

• Why computers aren't working
• How to plan a perfect homeschool year
• The statistics around homeschool success
• The best habits are built around daily rhythms; check out the Peaceful Press FREE Daily Rhythm Pack
• The Homeschool Planner: Everything you need to plan at your fingertips
• Get 10% off your purchase with code "Restoration10"
• Pre-order Jennifer's new book "The Inspired Homeschool"

You can learn more about Jennifer here–

Jennifer's Instagram

Welcome to episode 189 with Jennifer Pepito and Tabitha Paige.

Tabitha is the author and illustrator of some of our most beloved children’s books and a speech therapist who has so much to teach us about learning. and guess what play is, as always, core to successful learning. Children are wired to learn and it’s only when we turn it into a chore or abridge their ability to learn or try to rush them that we run into what feels like delays in most children. So take a deep breath, don’t worry about your child’s pace, and enjoy the journey.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers.

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode:

• The importance of play in learning to read.
• Letting your child learn at their own pace
• Child development and fear
• You’re child is doing fine
• Shutting out the background noise if it isn’t helpful.
• Check out Tabitha Paige’s Amazon store for so many beautiful water-colour children’s books.

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

Jennifer's Instagram

You can learn more about Tabitha here:

Tabitha’s Instagram

Some Amazon Affiliate Links

Welcome to episode 188 with Jennifer Pepito and Lindsey Maestas.

This episode is all about marriage. We love marriages at the Restoration Home and having a healthy, peaceful marriage is a cornerstone to a restoration home. A good marriage, though, only comes through habituation of the presence of God, radical obedience, and loving like Christ, plus all the little habits like connection over convenience.

This episode is full of wonderful beautiful wisdom for your marriage. It both challenges and inspires while calling on us to live and love radically.

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers.

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode:

• The habits of a godly marriage
• Loving on purpose
• Humility and service in marriage
• Competing to out-love one another
• What is the narrative you are telling yourself about your love story
• Check out Lindsey's book "Don't Burn Your Own House Down"

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

Jennifer's Instagram

You can learn more about Lindsey here:

Lindsey’s Instagram

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