Episodes

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Encouragement for Homeschool Moms with Jessica Anderson. Encouragement for Homeschool Moms with Jessica Anderson Need a little homeschool encouragement? We invited our dear friend, Jessica Anderson from Intentional in Life, to come share some homeschool goodness with us. When you talk with Jessica, you usually feel like you are in the presence of wisdom and intentionality. (Of course, that’s why her work is called Intentional in Life!) She is one of...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How to Have Good Conversations with Your Teen. How to Have Good Conversations with Your Teen Communication is key with teens! Join Vicki for tips on strengthening relationships with your homeschool high schoolers by having meaningful conversations. Featured in this post: Strategies for having good conversations with teens Approaches for having good conversations with teens Pick the right time and place Talk with food Be judgment-free Don’t try...

Felice met the 7Sisters team at a blogging conference and invited them to bring homeschool high school to the network. Years and hundreds of episodes later, they are still the ones parents come to when the teen years arrive. For the network’s thirteenth birthday, every host answers a single real question. This one is theirs. Their question: “Your oldest is about to hit high school, and you are quietly terrified you are going to wreck their transcript.” Their answer starts with a joke and ends ...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Celebrating Our Just-Average Teens. Celebrating Our Just-Average Teens Let’s celebrate  our just-average teens! There is joy when we appreciate the fact that our teens are exactly who they’re supposed to be, exactly the teens that God created them to be. Featured in this article: A farming analogy Can you catch the metaphor that’s coming? Here’s the point about parenting just-average teens Average teens may do average-level academics Help teen...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Teaching Teens to Avoid Plagiarism. Teaching Teens to Avoid Plagiarism Sometimes, parents will request a topic for the podcast. Recently, a parent asked us to talk about plagiarism. It is so easy these days for young people to be tempted to throw a prompt into ChatGPT or another AI tool and get a paper produced for them. This might seem like a logical time-saver for teens; however, it is a kind of plagiarism. If an AI tool writes their paper, they d...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Organizational Tool for Homeschool High Schoolers with Rebecca Farris. Organizational Tool for Homeschool High Schoolers with Rebecca Farris Working on getting organized now that the year has started, and you are finding out what is working and what is not? Congratulations! Today we are talking to Rebecca Farris, whose planners have been organizing homeschooling families for years! Featured in this article: Our 7SistersHomeschool meets Rebecca Farr...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Homeschoolers Who Learn Differently: Empowered Strategies with Ashley Barta. Homeschoolers Who Learn Differently: Empowered Strategies with Ashley Barta We love meeting new people with cool resources. That’s why we are excited to introduce you to Ashley Barta, who helps empower parents of homeschoolers who learn differently. Ashley is a consultant at Empowered Strategies and Consulting. She is also a military homeschool mom (and comes highly recommen...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: The Youth Speak Magazine with Houston Wrona. The Youth Speak Magazine with Houston Wrona One of our favorite things is talking to homeschool graduates who are doing cool things. That is why we were so excited to have homeschool graduate Houston Wrona, about his homeschool youth magazine, The Youth Speak. Featured in this article: Houston Wrona’s story The Youth Speak Magazine How it started How The Youth Speak works What are editors looking for...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How Oxford Style Tutorials Work with Trinity House. How Oxford Style Tutorials Work with Trinity House Many of us homeschoolers are fans of C.S. Lewis’ writings. For those who have followed his biographies, you know that his most impactful educational experiences were with his tutor, William Kirkpatrick. We Americans do not often have the opportunity to experience tutoring of this style. However, it still exists. That’s why we were excited to have ou...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: College Safety and Fun for Homeschool Graduates with Seth and Caroline Tillman- Replay. College Safety and Fun for Homeschool Graduates This is a replay of a favorite episode. We feel like it is useful information for our grads who are heading to college soon. Featured in this college safety and fun: Safety Tip #1: Walk in a group Safety Tip #2: Lock your dorm or apartment doors when you leave Safety Tip #3: Ride-share advice Safety Tip #4: If y...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Cooking for High School Credit with Angela Smith. Cooking for High School Credit with Angela Smith As homeschool parents, we 7Sisters know a win when we see one! How about life skills, cooking, and food science combined for a fun and meaningful high school elective credit? That’s what we found with Angela Smith at Inquisicook! Featured in this article: Angela Smith’s story Inquisicook’s story How Inquisicook works Find Inquisicooks Learn more ...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Choosing This Year’s Curriculum for Homeschool High School. Choosing This Year’s Curriculum for Homeschool High School Let’s talk about choosing this year’s curriculum for your homeschool high schoolers! This is one of the most fun (and sometimes stressful) parts of the homeschool year. Every year, you have different circumstances and a different budget. Every year, you must choose curriculum that fits your teen’s goals (and your goals) for their gr...

📚 Part of our guide: Back to Homeschool This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How to Plan Your Homeschool High School. How to Plan Your Homeschool High School Let’s talk about planning high school. We know that planning for homeschooling high school can feel intimidating. I (Vicki) remember, back in those early days, getting ready to start homeschooling her first high schooler. During those days, I was president of our local homeschool organization. There were not many people homeschool...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Middle Schoolers, Transcripts, and High School Courses. Middle Schoolers, Transcripts, and High School Courses We often receive questions from parents of homeschool middle schoolers. They want to know how to record on the transcript their high school-level courses completed during middle school. They want to know how and where to record those high school-level courses completed during middle school! Featured in this post: High school courses in mid...

📚 Part of our guide: Homeschooling a Struggling Learner This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Resource for Teens Who Struggle With Reading with Tara Giddings. Resource For Teens Who Struggle With Reading with Tara Giddings Some homeschooling high schoolers love reading. Others do not! Some teens struggle with reading. That’s why Vicki was excited to talk about a reading program that respectfully helps teens build their reading skills. We talked to Tara Giddings from LearnUp Centers. She...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: 10 Ways to Help Teens Develop Their Interests. 10 Ways to Help Teens Develop Their Interests One of the joys of homeschooling high school is helping teens invest in their interests. One of the most important gifts we can give our teens in their high school years is to lean into discovering their interests, to explore ideas that are important to them, or simply to find out that they have interests, and to try on hats and to see which ones are the be...

📚 Part of our guide: Homeschooling High School This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: 20+ Credits Needed for Graduation. 20+ Credits Needed for Graduation Lots of homeschooling parents feel intimidated by transcripts. They worry if they will include the correct courses and credits for a successful launch for their homeschool high schoolers into the next phase of life. That’s why I (7Sister Vicki) am excited to talk about homeschool transcripts! I know this can be a stressful topic for ne...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How I Homeschooled with Natalie Mack. How I Homeschooled with Natalie Mack Our listeners tell us that one of their favorite podcast episode topics is when fellow homeschool parents tell how they homeschool! That’s because there’s not ONE right way to homeschool high school. It is encouraging and fun to hear how other parents are handling their educational adventures. One of our favorite people to have on the podcast is our friend and 7Sisters Cousi...