In this episode, Marissa Rice and Cherelle discuss the profound journey of homeschooling, emphasizing its role as a path of discipleship rather than merely an academic alternative. They explore the importance of creating a rhythm in homeschooling that fosters both learning and character development, while also evaluating success beyond traditional metrics like test scores. Cherelle offers encouragement to moms who may feel inadequate in their homeschooling journey, reminding them of their unique calling and the importance of nurturing their children's hearts and faith.

 

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Check out Cherelle's website: https://embracinghomeschool.com/

 

Want to try out her curriculum? Here is a free opportunity:  https://embracinghomeschool.com/free-lessons/

 

Did you want to see more? Here is Cherelle's full collection of homeschool resources: https://shop.embracinghomeschool.com/collections/the-simplified-feast-1

 

Takeaways

Homeschooling is about shaping hearts and nurturing faith. The focus should be on discipleship, not just academics. Creating a rhythm in homeschooling is essential for success. Success in homeschooling is not measured by test scores. Teaching children how to learn is more important than memorizing facts. Homeschooling allows for character development and personal growth. Moms should embrace their unique calling in homeschooling. It's important to evaluate success based on character and respect. Encouragement is vital for moms struggling with homeschooling. God equips those He calls to homeschool. 

 

 

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Homeschooling Journey 04:00 The Shift from Necessity to Passion in Homeschooling 05:47 Focusing on Discipleship Over Academics 12:42 Creating a Homeschool Rhythm 18:52 Evaluating Success in Homeschooling 20:22 Empowering Learners: The Homeschooling Journey 22:20 Measuring Success in Homeschooling 24:20 Character Over Curriculum: Redefining Success 28:30 Encouragement for Struggling Moms 31:16 The Power of Parental Influence 35:22 Homeschooling as a Discipleship Mission

 

Keywords

homeschooling, discipleship, education, family, parenting, learning, character development, faith, encouragement, community

 

In this episode of Raising Rices, hosts Marissa and Cherelle discuss the importance of creating a Christ-centered home that fosters peace, joy, and discipleship. They explore the roles of mothers and fathers in shaping the atmosphere of the home, the significance of involving children in household responsibilities, and the necessity of modeling grace and repentance. Practical tips for home management and handling chaos are shared, emphasizing the importance of intentionality in nurturing a family environment that reflects Christ's love.

 

Links: 

Cherelle's website: https://embracinghomeschool.com/

 

Free Workshop Recording for Meal Planning/Home Cleaning/ Homeschool, a great resource for YOU: [Bootcamp] – Embracing Homeschool

 

FREE! Simple Family Rewards System: https://embracinghomeschool.com/sfrs/ 

 

Shop Cherelle's collections for homeschooling: https://shop.embracinghomeschool.com/collections/the-simplified-feast-1

 

Takeaways

A Christ-centered home focuses on God's presence, not perfection. Mothers set the mood of the home and should be nurturing. Discipling children is essential for their spiritual growth. Involving children in chores teaches responsibility. A tidy home contributes to peace and joy. Modeling how to handle setbacks is crucial for children. Repentance involves turning away from sin, not just saying sorry. Creating a welcoming home encourages hospitality. Intentionality in parenting leads to deeper connections. The work done in the home has eternal significance.

 

 

Chapters

00:00 Creating a Christ-Centered Home 01:33 Roles in a Christ-Centered Family 05:55 Discipling Children in Faith 10:49 Cultivating Peace and Joy at Home 20:44 Practical Tips for Home Management 21:11 The Power of Meal Planning 22:12 Involving Kids in Household Chores 24:15 Creating a Family Team Dynamic 25:15 Implementing a Reward System for Chores 28:02 Teaching Moments in Daily Chaos 31:55 Modeling Grace and Repentance 35:54 The Home as a Training Ground

 

Keywords

Christ-centered home, peace, joy, homemaking, discipleship, motherhood, family, chaos, grace, parenting

 

Join our conversation as we consider the different pathways popular in the culture and in Christianity today. There are ditches on both sides of the road, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be intentional in gathering the best according to the word of God and wisdom that comes from Him. 

Join us for an awesome conversation with some dear friends about their adult singlehood, marriage, and how they honored God and served the church during this time while maintaining the desire to be married and have a family. 

 

 

Welcome to our conversation about the difficulties and practicalities of applying a sabbath rest in our busy lives today, the value and goodness that it brings, and considerations of our heart condition along the way. 

 

Join us as we talk about homeschooling, extracurricular activities, and spiritual growth, leadership, marriage, and how all of these things can work together in a beautiful biblical picture. 

Join us as we talk candidly about slow living, the temptations of our busy world, and living intentionally in different seasons of life. 

 

Join our conversation challenging believers to live without fear, understanding the economy of increased numbers of children, and the financial impacts of these decisions. 

 

 

Another conversation about having a biblical mindset in the midst of all the conversation in the media about national emergencies, and how to live day to day in a way that leads to being prepared for the unexpected. 

Getting practical here, what are the implications of applying the things we talk about here on the podcast? How should we be thinking about the way our actions instruct the future lives of our children? 

 

 

Join us as we talk about marriage, prayer, praying together, family priorities, ministry and so much more. We hope that this episode challenges you to pray together and build your marriage. 

Visit www.themarriagegift.com to get the book or www.marriageaftergod.com for all of Aaron and Jennifer's encouragement! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us as we share some convictions about church history and the growing importance and significance it has had for us in our family. As always we hope this conversation is encouraging and thought provoking for you. 

In this episode of the Raising Rices podcast, host Marissa Rice welcomes Cherelle German, a seasoned homeschooling mother and mentor. They discuss the heart behind homeschooling, the challenges of motherhood, and the importance of community and support. Cherelle shares her personal journey into motherhood and homeschooling, emphasizing the transformative power of scripture and personal growth. The conversation highlights the need for continual learning and the significance of surrounding oneself with like-minded individuals. Cherelle also offers encouragement for weary moms and introduces her resources for homeschooling families.

 

Links for Cherelle:

https://embracinghomeschool.com/ https://embracinghomeschool.com/free-lessons/ https://shop.embracinghomeschool.com/collections/the-simplified-feast-1

 

takeaways

• A mother's heart shapes the spirit of the home.
• Motherhood is a deeper calling, almost like a ministry.
• Selfishness is not going to work in a marriage.
• If you're not growing, you're dying.
• His mercies are new every morning.
• Keep moving forward, keep growing, keep learning.
• You cannot serve others without not being selfish.
• Being a wife and mother is not for the faint at heart.
• Homeschooling is heart work.
• Find some like-minded women to chat with.

Chapters

00:00 The Heart of Homeschooling 01:37 Cherelle's Journey into Motherhood 05:23 Embracing the Calling of Homeschooling 10:02 Overcoming Selfishness in Motherhood 12:29 Protecting and Refreshing the Heart 18:29 Finding Strength in Scripture 21:53 Resetting the Heart 27:17 Encouragement for Weary Moms 30:19 Resources for Homeschooling Moms

 

Keywords

homeschooling, motherhood, parenting, community, spiritual growth, encouragement, heart work, support, resources, faith

 

Join us as we examine what the bible really has to say about the characteristics of biblical womanhood, and how we can apply these things in our marriage and parenting today. 

 

In this episode we launch into a conversation about biblical manhood, and how we should be thinking about several terms that are frequently used today, especially when it comes to raising our boys in Chrisitan homes. 

Today's episode is both a doctrinal and practical conversation about salvation, moralism, conservativism, homeschooling, and the pitfalls that we all can fall into when raising our children, or even living our own lives. We hope and pray this episode is a blessing to you! 

Welcome to our discussion on generational faith, this conversation includes references to the doctrinal ideas of covenant succession or expectant redemption along with personal challenges of the character we should be developing and expecting as we walk out our faith and responsibilities as parents. 

Welcome to our conversation about kids with strong personalities, where we talk about some of our thoughts and convictions when it comes to the personalities of our kids and the dynamics they bring to the family. We hope this episode encourages you to be diligent and faithful in your parenting for the glory of God. 

Join us for a candid conversation regarding the guardrails that we are currently convicted of when it comes to Christmas and Santa. One of these is Christian liberty, so tune in, we hope that this episode prompts prayer, discussion with your spouse, and ultimately seeking the Lord for wisdom through His Word. 

Once again another convicting topic where we focus on the application of teaching another spiritual skill to your children. But this one is really for the parents too, we hope that this episode challenges you to use biblical discernment in your family decisions and teach this skill to your kids at the same time.  

Join us as we share some personal reflections and encouragement on the topic of Fear. This episode is packed with personal stories you might not have heard before that expose the way that our testimony can build our faith, and help us to encourage each other to walk in the fear of the Lord alone.  

Hey there and welcome back as we discuss what we believe is the MOST important subject in our kids education. We homeschool (and LOVE it) but this conversation is important to have regardless of the educational choices of your family. Listen in as we share our conviction, followed by what character qualities are developed by this conviction and lastly what sorts of challenges will come about when we hold to this conviction. We pray you will be encouraged and strengthened in your parenting as you work hard to raise households that serve the Lord. 

Join us as we talk about the importance of raising awareness that to not get caught up in raising "good" kids, but remember as Christain families we get the privilege to raise God-willing future brother and sisters in Christ.  

Thanks for joining our conversation today where Marissa and Mary talk about raising out of the box kids. We pray it is an encouragement to you as we are real moms talking about real life.

If you have been following along you hear us mention that we are striving to teach a Biblical Worldview to our kids. Remembering you kids (and you) are always being taught, whether or not you are intentional with them or not, someone is teaching them something. Today we deep dive into the feet to the pavement PRACTICAL ways that we can walk out of own Biblical Worldview and thus teach our kids. 

 

We want to encourage you as parents and believers to run the race worthy of the King, as we focus on the eternal reason why we do what we do. There is a lot of ideas, systematic approaches and reasons why we do what we do. 

 

Joshua 24:15 As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Join us for another conversation where we talk about the pitfalls of the culture we live in, deception, pragmatism, and October in particular as we are faced with major cultural challenges when leading our families. We hope this conversation prompts you to biblically and prayerfully consider the decisions your family makes throughout the rest of October and the year to come. 

 

 

Join us as we have a candid conversation about marriage, parenting, ministry and where we have been for the past 6 months, we hope this conversation encourages you to prayerfully prioritize your commitments, and recognize your first ministries you are called to! 

Welcome to our conversation about teaching a biblical worldview, we touched on the idea of our beliefs affecting everything that we do in a prior episode, so if you are not sure about exactly what we were referencing with “worldview” in that episode we dive a little deeper here into what a Christian worldview is and how to teach it to your kids.

Welcome to our podcast about accepting generosity and humility in the light of generosity. Even if you are not expressly “in need” allowing others to do good generously lets them fulfill good works of caring for other believers, in the same way that we also should be thoughtful and generous to others.

Welcome to our conversation about marriage, and what we think may be the most valuable thing that we have learned. Hold your heart before the lord. Serve your spouse.

Welcome to our conversation about what you believe and how it impacts your life. Much like your family vision, this is even one step above your family vision, it is the core of the way you view the world and what you profess to be true. If you believe and profess to be true, that thing has an effect on every part of your life.

Welcome to our conversation about the impact of your family vision. Money, location, activities, home, ect…

Welcome to our conversation about stay-in date nights, getting in a routine, and how important connecting with your spouse is! Your marriage relationship is foundational for your family, taking face to face time together is so important for maintaining and continuing to build your relationship with your spouse.

Welcome to our discussion where we are talking about personal devotion time, our marriage, and the family and how we fit it all in together.

Join us for this controversial conversation about raising daughters differently. Not just differently from the world around us, but different from boys. What biblical truths can we apply when we are considering raising our daughters to be women of the Word? 

Welcome to our conversation about the mundane moments in life, in a social media highlight world it is easy to lose track of what matters most. Here we discuss how we have engaged in living all of our life for Christ in the big moments and mundane moments. 

Our conviction is that we must and in turn must teach our children to be critical thinkers. Critical thinkers meaning specifically in this context to consider critically the information we are receiving, how we respond to the world around us, and how these things affect what we believe.

Welcome to our conversation about seeking Christ, repentance, marriage and parenting with humility. We discuss the downfalls and traps we fall into when we require perfection from our family. We conversate about the importance of remembering when we require perfection for love, or acceptance we are showing and teaching our family a works-based religion. Listen in to hear more of these thoughts and more. 

Welcome to our discussion on overcoming weariness in life and parenting. We share our thoughts and conviction that we are to use all our strength for the Lord. Matthew 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

Welcome to a candid conversation about why we have a biblical conviction to homeschool our kids. In this episode we share our heart for homeschooling and encourage you to reflect on how you can best disciple your children. 

Welcome to our conversation about developing family culture! This is another conviction that is at the root of everything we do as a family but also is a topic that you could probably spend an entire season talking about, so we hope todays podcast will spark a conversation in your family.

Thanks for joining us for Episode #3 of the Raising Rices Podcast, we are so excited to talk about our Family Bible Time, and encourage you with our convictions, character and challenges that we have grown in. Our 20 minute podcast are designed to welcome you into our conversation about biblical parenting and we pray it is an encouragement to you!

 

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Welcome to the RaisingRices podcast Episode #2 where we are covering parenting and thriving inside of transition. Did you know that there are things you can do as a parents to prepare for transitions that you know are coming and ones that come up surprisingly. Listen in as we cover that and more, about the little and big transitions that come up in our incredible story called: Life.

 

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Welcome to the Raising Rices Podcast where we are excited to talk about raising households that serve the Lord. On today's podcast we are going over Who We Are, and how this podcast will be covering our convictions, character, and challenge all within a 20-minute format. 

 

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Today we are in the library talking about friction, when is more friction better? Should we always avoid friction? And what are the benefits anyway? 

What about the role of motherhood, is it a blessing or a massive interruption? Does what you say and do match what you would express if asked this question? 

We are wrapping up our series on dating and marriage, join us for this one where we examine the role of the father as the spiritual head of the daughter, and his responsibility to hand her off to a capable man to marry. 

Welcome back to the podcast, we are talking this week about thanksgiving and how to combat the cultural passivity that can creep into the Christian home. 

We continue our mini-series exploring preparing our children for future marriage and adulthood. Today we talk about "The List" and what some biblical qualifications are that we should be encouraging our children in.