How to Build a Homeschool Mom’s Reading Life | Episode 330

Podcast

Rachel Winchester returns with Kara Beck and Linda Sarna in this episode to discuss the role of reading in their homeschooling journeys. They share how their love of literature evolved through different seasons of motherhood and affirm the deep value that fiction and narrative hold in their personal growth. They get practical by sharing ways to choose books, whether through planning, themes, or simply following what feels right in the moment. One refreshing highlight is their mutual agreement on the concept of stress-free reading… Join us for this practical and encouraging conversation!

You’ll hear about:

How a reading life can grow alongside your children and develop through the different seasons of motherhood
Why fiction and narrative can speak to the heart in ways that nonfiction often cannot
The value of choosing books intentionally while still leaving room for the Holy Spirit to lead your reading
How to let go of the pressure to read a certain number of books and instead slow down and truly receive what you are reading
Why reading the books your children are reading can deepen your homeschool and give you something meaningful to share with your older children
Simple encouragement for busy moms who want to become better readers: start small, give yourself grace, and read just a few pages a day

Join us!

Books mentioned in this episode:

Well-Read Mom Book Club
The Year of the Teacher (Well-Read Mom reading year theme)
Little House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anne of Green Gables — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Princess and the Goblin — George MacDonald
Miss Rumphius — Barbara Cooney
Ox-Cart Man — Donald Hall
The Carrot Seed — Ruth Krauss
Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series — Charlotte Mason
For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School — Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Mitford Series — Jan Karon
Purgatorio — Dante Alighieri
The Ethics of Beauty — Timothy Patitsas
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bird in the Tree — Elizabeth Goudge
Hannah Coulter — Wendell Berry
The Year of the Woman (Well-Read Mom reading year theme)
Invitation to the Classics — edited by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness
Giants in the Earth — O. E. Rølvaag
The End of the Affair — Graham Greene
Farmer Boy — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nat Theo, Nature Lessons Rooted in the Bible (podcast and curriculum)