How to Encourage Independent Cooking
Listen to the podcast Watch on YouTube In this podcast episode, Melanie Wilson interviews Chanel Miller, a homeschooling mom, about her journey and her new cookbook for kids called Kid De Cuisine. Chanel shares that she homeschools her three daughters and explains how the idea of homeschooling began during the pandemic when her daughters were in pre-K. She wanted to be more hands-on with their education and spend quality family time...
Teaching the Underground Railroad with Danika Cooley
Introduction In this episode of the Home School Sanity Show, Melanie Wilson welcomes back Danika Cooley to discuss her latest additions to the Who What Why series, which is designed to teach Christian history. Listen to the podcast Watch on YouTube Sponsor: Reading Eggs With Reading Eggs, your homeschoolers will enjoy a highly personalized learning journey,designed to support them at every stage. Plus, you’ll get four programs in one...
Freedom in Homeschooling with Connor Boyack
Hey, homeschoolers! For me and for so many of you, homeschooling is about freedom—the freedom to educate our children ourselves, the freedom to teach our values. It’s a freedom that we often take for granted. Sometimes it’s a freedom that feels at odds with government education and programs. Listen to the podcast Watch on YouTube I am happy to have Connor Boyack join me for an enlightening discussion of freedom in homeschooling....
Why Charlotte Mason Would Love Grammar Galaxy Language Arts Curriculum
Do you love Charlotte Mason’s approach to education? This is the Homeschool Sanity Show, the episode where I explain why I think Charlotte Mason would approve of my unique approach to teaching language arts and why you might want to consider adding it to your studies this year. Listen to the podcast If you love a Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling, I’m not surprised. Charlotte thought education should be a lifestyle that should...
Project-Based Learning
Hey, homeschoolers! At this point in the year, I begin to think about changes I want to make in my homeschool. One change you may want to consider is adding some project-based learning. My guest today is going to help us with that. Before I introduce her, I want to let you know about the projects I've included in Grammar Galaxy Nova for middle schoolers. While learning about literature, vocabulary, spelling strategies, and grammar,...
Studying History on Location
Hey, homeschoolers! What if you could study history where it happened? My guests for today's podcast tell us how to make that possible, whether you're able to travel or not. Listen to the podcast Before I introduce my guests, though, I want to thank my sponsor for this episode, the Courageous Legacy movie. My guests are Dr. W. Kesler Jackson (I'll be calling him Billy) and Nate Noorlander. Billy's YouTube channel (The Nomadic...
About Me
I'm a Christian psychologist turned homeschooling mother of six. My life can be a little crazy, so I look for sanity-saving ideas to use and share. I hope you'll read my About page to learn more.
-Dr. Melanie Wilson
