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“The homeschooling journey doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, it shouldn’t be. In a world that wants to tell you “how-to” homeschool better, come and discover that simplifying, letting God lead, and focusing on your family is far greater than any new “method” or "system.”
Yvette Hampton talks with return guest Karen DeBeus about her new book, The Simple Homeschool Journey: Building a Family, Not Just a Transcript.
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Watch this full interview with Karen DeBeus (over 1 hour) on our YouTube channel.
From the book: “Karen shares from her fifteen years of experience as a homeschooling mom. She will help you stay focused on the true goals for your family. Homeschooling is about so much more than just academics. You are building a family, and not just a transcript. It isn’t about a piece of paper that defines your children, but the foundation upon which they stand, that defines them. Join Karen as she takes you on the journey from just starting out in kindergarten, all the way until dropping her first born at college. It was a spiritual journey, a faith-building journey, and a family-building journey. And in the end, keeping it simple and focusing on God and family, were the most beautiful parts of all. Wherever you are in your homeschooling journey, you will be encouraged to build your family on the Lord’s foundation.”
Recommended Resources:
Karen’s Website: www.simplylivingforhim.com
Karen’s eCourses: www.simplylivingforhim.Thinkific.com
Books by Karen DeBeus
The Simple Homeschool Journey
Simply Living for Him: A Devotional for Less Clutter and More Joy
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
 
Community
www.simplylivingforhim.com/community
Karen’s Podcast
www.simplylivingforhim.com/podcast
Instagram: @simplylivingforhim
 
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“The homeschooling journey doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, it shouldn’t be. In a world that wants to tell you “how-to” homeschool better, come and discover that simplifying, letting God lead, and focusing on your family is far greater than any new “method” or "system.”
Yvette Hampton talks with return guest Karen DeBeus about her new book, The Simple Homeschool Journey: Building a Family, Not Just a Transcript.
Make sure you come back tomorrow for the third part of this interview.
PARTNER WITH US!
If you believe in homeschooling, please partner with us by making a tax-deductible donation to support Schoolhouse Rocked.
Shop for Schoolhouse Rocked Merchandise
Without the support of the homeschool community we could not produce The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. Whether or not you can donate, we ask that EVERY listener support the show by sharing it with your friends and family, by leaving a review on iTunes, and by praying for our team.
 
Watch this full interview with Karen DeBeus (over 1 hour) on our YouTube channel.
From the book: “Karen shares from her fifteen years of experience as a homeschooling mom. She will help you stay focused on the true goals for your family. Homeschooling is about so much more than just academics. You are building a family, and not just a transcript. It isn’t about a piece of paper that defines your children, but the foundation upon which they stand, that defines them. Join Karen as she takes you on the journey from just starting out in kindergarten, all the way until dropping her first born at college. It was a spiritual journey, a faith-building journey, and a family-building journey. And in the end, keeping it simple and focusing on God and family, were the most beautiful parts of all. Wherever you are in your homeschooling journey, you will be encouraged to build your family on the Lord’s foundation.”
Recommended Resources:
Karen’s Website: www.simplylivingforhim.com
Karen’s eCourses: www.simplylivingforhim.Thinkific.com
Books by Karen DeBeus
The Simple Homeschool Journey
Simply Living for Him: A Devotional for Less Clutter and More Joy
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
 
Community
www.simplylivingforhim.com/community
Karen’s Podcast
www.simplylivingforhim.com/podcast
Instagram: @simplylivingforhim
 
New, lower price! FULL ACCESS to the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo is just $10!
Free Preview - If you are considering homeschooling or just need some great homeschooling encouragement, please check out HomegrownGeneration.com for over 9 hours of FREE homeschool videos from the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo.
 
Please take a minute to visit our sponsors and thank them for helping to bring you The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. We ONLY work with companies we know and love! We happily recommend these companies and their products.
Are you looking for a new Math Curriculum? CTCMath specializes in providing online video tutorials that take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Creative graphics and animation, synchronized with the friendly voice of internationally acclaimed teacher, Pat Murray, make learning math easy and effective. Visit CTCmath.com today to start your free trial today. 

“The homeschooling journey doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, it shouldn’t be. In a world that wants to tell you “how-to” homeschool better, come and discover that simplifying, letting God lead, and focusing on your family is far greater than any new “method” or "system.”
Yvette Hampton talks with return guest Karen DeBeus about her new book, The Simple Homeschool Journey: Building a Family, Not Just a Transcript.
This is a three-part interview, so make sure you come back Wednesday and Thursday to hear the rest.
PARTNER WITH US!
If you believe in homeschooling, please partner with us by making a tax-deductible donation to support Schoolhouse Rocked.
Shop for Schoolhouse Rocked Merchandise
Without the support of the homeschool community we could not produce The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. Whether or not you can donate, we ask that EVERY listener support the show by sharing it with your friends and family, by leaving a review on iTunes, and by praying for our team.
 
Watch this full interview with Karen DeBeus (over 1 hour) on our YouTube channel.
From the book: “Karen shares from her fifteen years of experience as a homeschooling mom. She will help you stay focused on the true goals for your family. Homeschooling is about so much more than just academics. You are building a family, and not just a transcript. It isn’t about a piece of paper that defines your children, but the foundation upon which they stand, that defines them. Join Karen as she takes you on the journey from just starting out in kindergarten, all the way until dropping her first born at college. It was a spiritual journey, a faith-building journey, and a family-building journey. And in the end, keeping it simple and focusing on God and family, were the most beautiful parts of all. Wherever you are in your homeschooling journey, you will be encouraged to build your family on the Lord’s foundation.”
Recommended Resources:
Karen’s Website: www.simplylivingforhim.com
Karen’s eCourses: www.simplylivingforhim.Thinkific.com
 
Books by Karen DeBeus
The Simple Homeschool Journey
Simply Living for Him: A Devotional for Less Clutter and More Joy
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
 
Community
www.simplylivingforhim.com/community
Karen’s Podcast
www.simplylivingforhim.com/podcast
Instagram: @simplylivingforhim
 
New, lower price! FULL ACCESS to the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo is just $10!
Free Preview - If you are considering homeschooling or just need some great homeschooling encouragement, please check out HomegrownGeneration.com for over 9 hours of FREE homeschool videos from the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo.
 
Please take a minute to visit our sponsors and thank them for helping to bring you The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. We ONLY work with companies we know and love! We happily recommend these companies and their products.
Are you looking for a new Math Curriculum? CTCMath specializes in providing online video tutorials that take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Creative graphics and animation, synchronized with the friendly voice of internationally acclaimed teacher, Pat Murray, make learning math easy and effective. Visit CTCmath.com today to start your free trial today. 

In this episode, Yvette Hampton and Karen DeBeus talk about Getting Real! As homeschool moms, it’s often difficult to share our struggles as we try to live up to the “perfect” homeschool mom that we imagine everyone else to be.
Karen will be speaking at the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo, which is being presented by the Schoolhouse Rocked team as a ministry to homeschool families.
Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day.
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In 2016, Karen DeBeus founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.
Books by Karen DeBeus
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
Simply Homeschool: 2nd Edition: Have Less Fluff and Bear More Fruit
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Simply Seeking Him: A Journal
You can find Karen at: www.simplylivingforhim.com and www.biblebasedhomeschooling.com
Listen to a new PODCAST episode by Karen every Friday: www.simplylivingforhim.com/podcast
Find her on Facebook: facebook.com/simplylivingforhim
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Join Yvette Hampton, Aby Rinella, and Karen DeBeus as they discuss the importance of establishing a strong foundation with our homeschool students, so that they are prepared to graduate and go out into the world. The ladies discuss the struggle Karen felt letting go of her oldest child, as she went off to college, then they talk about Karen's Bible Based Homeschooling E-Course, Homeschool Consulting and Mentorship Program, and her book, Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool, which are all great tools to help build that solid foundation.
 
Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day.In 2016, she founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.
Join us on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass membership site for the full unedited VIDEO and transcript of this interview! 
Books by Karen DeBeus:
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
Simply Homeschool: 2nd Edition: Have Less Fluff and Bear More Fruit
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Simply Seeking Him: A Journal
You can find Karen at: SimplyLivingforHim.com and BibleBasedHomeschooling.comListen to a new PODCAST episode by Karen every Friday: SimplyLivingforHim.com/podcastFind her on Facebook: facebook.com/simplylivingforhim
Read more from Aby Rinella at CalledToTheTop.com 
 
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The Bible for Kids - If you have a child in your life that you want to pass along biblical values to, this podcast is for you. Hosted by best-selling author Amy Parker and author and co-creator of VeggieTales Mike Nawrocki, The Bible for Kids podcast seeks to provide a discovery platform for the best resources for teaching biblical values to kids. Guests include authors, teachers, musicians, film makers and more. Listen HERE.
Do you believe in homeschooling? Here’s your chance to help spread the word that homeschooling is good for students. It’s good for families. It’s good for AMERICA!  Go to SchoolhouseRocked.com/support and join the movement to spread the word about homeschooling through movie theaters nationwide.

"you might not be organized, and you might not love to lesson plan, but the reality is that’s the mom that God gave your kids, and those are the kids that God gave you. And so he perfectly meshes those things together, and there’s no piece of paper that any state can ever give you that qualifies you any more than the God who created both us and our children qualifies us; he’s the one that qualifies us.'" - Aby Rinella
Part 2 - In this special roundtable discussion, Aby Rinella, Karen DeBeus, and Yvette Hampton talk about Why, How, and Who of Homeschooling.
 
Click here for the transcript of this episode
Transcripts are provided by MakeCrate. MakeCrate provides your homeschooler with the STEM skills they need for the future! Fun, hands-on electronics kits paired with an online learning platform teach your middle or high schooler engineering and coding fundamentals right at home! No technical expertise is required. Order your MakeCrate today at MakeCrate.Club/SR.
 
 
Join us on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass membership site for the full, unedited video of this interview (over an hour long!). Save 10% on any paid Backstage Pass Membership by using the coupon code "Podcast10".
Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day.
In 2016, she founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.
You can find more encouragement from Karen at http://simplylivingforhim.com/about-me/
Aby Rinella is, above all, a follower of Jesus. She is also the director of her local homeschool co-op, director of women’s ministry at her church, wife, mom and teacher to the Rinella  children. Aby writes and speaks on homeschool, motherhood, parental rights, the culture war and more. She has a passion for encouraging and inspiring women to live the life they were designed to live. She and her husband also write for the outdoor industry about their adventures  together, showing their kids the creator by spending time in His creation.
You can find all of Aby’s published work at CalledToTheTop.com.
Yvette Hampton is the producer and host of the upcoming documentary, Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution, being directed by her husband, Garritt Hampton. She is also host of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. Yvette has a deep desire to see a culture shift by encouraging people through the truth of God’s Word. Her greatest joy in life is being a wife and mom!
In the fall of 2016, Yvette and her family sold their home and most of their possessions, loaded up in an RV, and began traveling the country to film Schoolhouse Rocked. They have a passion for the homeschool community and are honored that the Lord has called them to tell the story of the millions of families who have been impacted by the homeschool revolution.
This episode of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast is brought to you by Classical Conversations. Classical Conversations leads the home-centered education movement by teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning so that they can discover God’s created order and beauty. Share the love of learning through a Christian worldview and fellowship with other families. Our families thrive using three keys to a great education: Classical, Christian, and Community.
 
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"I started to really pray about it, and a few people approached me and said, 'Have you thought about homeschooling?' And I was like, 'No, because that’s not something we’re going to do.' And so it really started, though, to chase me down; God started to chase me down. Because I think, deep down, I did sort of admire what I knew about homeschooling, but I just thought, 'That’s not for us.'" - Karen DeBeus
Part 1 - In this special roundtable discussion, Aby Rinella, Karen DeBeus, and Yvette Hampton talk about Why, How, and Who of Homeschooling.
Click here for the transcript of this episode
Transcripts are provided by MakeCrate. MakeCrate provides your homeschooler with the STEM skills they need for the future! Fun, hands-on electronics kits paired with an online learning platform teach your middle or high schooler engineering and coding fundamentals right at home! No technical expertise is required. Order your MakeCrate today at MakeCrate.Club/SR.
 
 
Join us on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass membership site for the full, unedited video of this interview (over an hour long!). Save 10% on any paid Backstage Pass Membership by using the coupon code "Podcast10".
Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day.
In 2016, she founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.
You can find more encouragement from Karen at http://simplylivingforhim.com/about-me/
Aby Rinella is, above all, a follower of Jesus. She is also the director of her local homeschool co-op, director of women’s ministry at her church, wife, mom and teacher to the Rinella  children. Aby writes and speaks on homeschool, motherhood, parental rights, the culture war and more. She has a passion for encouraging and inspiring women to live the life they were designed to live. She and her husband also write for the outdoor industry about their adventures  together, showing their kids the creator by spending time in His creation.
You can find all of Aby’s published work at CalledToTheTop.com.
Yvette Hampton is the producer and host of the upcoming documentary, Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution, being directed by her husband, Garritt Hampton. She is also host of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. Yvette has a deep desire to see a culture shift by encouraging people through the truth of God’s Word. Her greatest joy in life is being a wife and mom!
In the fall of 2016, Yvette and her family sold their home and most of their possessions, loaded up in an RV, and began traveling the country to film Schoolhouse Rocked. They have a passion for the homeschool community and are honored that the Lord has called them to tell the story of the millions of families who have been impacted by the homeschool revolution.
This episode of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast is brought to you by Classical Conversations. Classical Conversations leads the home-centered education movement by teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning so that they can discover God’s created order and beauty. Share the love of learning through a Christian worldview and fellowship with other families. Our families thrive using three keys to a great education: Classical, Christian, and Community.
 
Support this podcast.

Join us on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass membership site for the full unedited video of this interview, including an additional 30 minutes of encouragement and discussion on how one year Karen and her family used the Bible as their core curriculum. You will not be disappointed! Save 10% on any paid Backstage Pass Membership by using the coupon code "Podcast10".
In this episode, Yvette Hampton and Karen DeBeus talk about Getting Real! As homeschool moms, it’s often difficult to share our struggles as we try to live up to the “perfect” homeschool mom that we imagine everyone else to be.
Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day.
In 2016, she founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.
Books by Karen DeBeus
Real Homeschool: Letting Go of the Pinterest-Perfect and Instagram-Ideal Homeschool
Simply Homeschool: 2nd Edition: Have Less Fluff and Bear More Fruit
Called Home: Finding Joy in Letting God Lead Your Homeschool
Simply Seeking Him: A Journal
You can find Karen at: www.simplylivingforhim.com and www.biblebasedhomeschooling.com
Listen to a new PODCAST episode by Karen every Friday: www.simplylivingforhim.com/podcast
Find her on Facebook: facebook.com/simplylivingforhim
 
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