Tried and True Homeschooling
by Dr. Claire Honeycutt🕊️❤️
Latest episode
🎙️How to Know When Unschooling Is — and Isn’t — Working
🎙️How to Know When Unschooling Is — and Isn’t — Working
About this podcast
Real Parents, Real Stories, Real Results. A podcast where we interview veteran homeschool parents who have actually graduated their kids. No influencers - just real parents, like you, sharing their wisdom.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 30 episodes
- 🎙️How to Know When Unschooling Is — and Isn’t — Working · 55 minWhat if the homeschooling philosophy everyone praises… isn’t actually the right fit for your child? Hello everyone, I’m Dr. Claire Honeycutt of ClarifiEd, and this is Tried &…
- 🎙️The Unschooler Who Put Herself in School · 53 minWhat happens when a radically unschooled child looks at her free-range childhood and says… “I want to go to public school”? Hello everybody! I’m Dr. Claire Honeycutt of ClarifiEd…
- 🎙️The Teen Who Came Alive After Leaving High School · 52 minWhat happens when a former public school principal — someone who was all in on traditional education — pulls his own daughter out of high school to homeschool? Hello everybody!…
- ✨Why This Summer Will Be Different: Joy, Rigor & the Tension Between Freedom and Formation · 4 min✨Congratulations everyone on the end of an incredible academic year! One of my favorite ways to end the year is to show my kids what they were doing last August. They are stunned…
- How to Manage Little Kids, Special Needs, Online Classes, and Teens · 1 h 23 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.clarified.life Today’s guest is Tracey, a veteran homeschool mom of four, whose wisdom and experience are…
- 🎙️Parenting Through Crisis: A Single Mom’s Hard-Won Path to Hope and Resilience · 1 h 6 min✨What if the hardest season of your family’s life became the foundation for your children’s greatest strengths? This episode is special friends. Kim began homeschooling back in…
- 🎙️Why I Quit My Tenured Professor Job for My Family (And Never Regretted It) · 34 minHappy New Year, homeschool friends! It’s 2026, and we’re kicking off the year with something I’ve never done before on the Tried & True Homeschooling Podcast. For this special…
- 🎙️How One Forest School Founder Covered All of K–2 Common Core—Outside · 58 min✨Ever wonder what would happen if you just… let nature be the teacher? Today I’m joined by Roman — longtime homeschool dad, nature mentor, and one of the people who helped launch…
- ✨Change How You See Failure · 1 h 6 min✨What if letting your teen fail could be the key to their success? In this episode, Bea shares her bold decision to pull her high school–aged daughter out of public school and…
- ✨Empowering Kids to OWN Their Education · 1 h 7 min✨What If Your Kids Could Take the Control of Their Education? This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alison and William, who homeschooled all three of their children…
- ✨Helping Kids Catch Up and Cope with Anxiety · 58 min✨Are you trying to catch your kid up from a poor public school experience? OR Trying to help a child with severe anxiety find their way in the world? OR Are you interested in…
- ✨How to Balance Tough Academics with Kids’ Unique Interests · 1 h 20 min✨Do you ever wonder how to give your kids more independence—without letting academics slip? In this episode, I talk with Michelle Brock—a second-generation homeschool mom who…
- ✨How to Stay-the-Course When Homeschooling Gets Hard · 40 min✨What does it look like to be the steady one—the grounding force—in a homeschool? In today’s episode, I talk with Chris, a father of four who homeschooled his kids through high…
- ✨Advice from a Homeschool Grad Turned Homeschool Mom · 58 min✨Wondering what homeschooled kids really think once they grow up? In this vulnerable and wisdom-rich episode, I sit down with Kathryn Fogleman-White - a homeschool alumna…
- ✨How to Raise a Self-Directed Learner: A Talk with Kerry McDonald · 45 minListen above or on Apple, Spotify, or Pocketcasts ✨What does education look like when it’s driven by curiosity, not curriculum? Today, I talk with the incredible Kerry McDonald—a…
- FIXED!!✨Turning Dyslexia into a Strength: One Mom’s Story · 1 h 6 minThis post was incorrectly marked paid only. The podcast is always free - especially this episode! I’ve deleted the prior post. My apologies for the mistake and the second email…
- ✨Turning Dyslexia into a Strength: One Mom’s Story · 1 h 6 minListen above or on Apple, Spotify, or Pocketcasts ✨Are you homeschooling kids with dyslexia and wondering if they'll ever thrive as readers and learners? Meet Jessica Kulynych —a…
- ✨Homeschool by Weaving Kids Into Real Work · 1 h 17 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.clarified.life Listen above or on Apple, Spotify, or Pocketcasts ✨What happens when you ditch traditional…
- ✨Homeschooling in Africa’s Mission Fields · 57 minIf you are listening outside my website, head over to clarified.life for workshops, courses, lesson plans, and more. ✨Are you worried that your messy, imperfect life will get in…
- ✨A Homeschool Story To Calm Your Nerves · 45 min✨Overwhelmed by Homeschooling? This Mom’s Peaceful Approach Will Recenter You Today’s guest, Brooke Z, homeschooled her two sons for 15 years—then watched them transition…
