Really Very Crunchy Homeschooling with Emily Morrow
We are so delighted to have Emily Morrow of "Really Very Crunchy" fame on the Restoration Home Podcast to talk about wild and free homeschooling versus lazy parenting, providing safe structure, tips for reading aloud, modelling behaviour for our children, and so much more.
Emily is a homeschool mom, business owner, and a delightfully hilarious content creator on Instagram, Youtube, and who you should check out, especially if you consider yourself even remotely crunchy. She and her husband Jason have built their business together, while raising and homeschooling their family. Enjoy!
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning.
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode–
Wild and free parenting because it's good for you kids or your lazy?
Starting good habits early and doing them often
Modelling for our children how we want them to live
How to build reading aloud into your children's lives
Check out Emily's book Really Very Crunchy and her and Jason's website for great ideas, belly laughs, and more
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Emily here:
Emily's Instagram
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
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Grace and Addictions with Ian Morgan Cron
Ian Morgan Cron, author of Chasing Francis and Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me, joins Jennifer Pepito to discuss his newest book The Fix. It is a beautiful book about healing addictions and the spiritual growth that can be found through the 12 step program.
So often in Christian culture, we are quick to categorise addictions as the painfully obvious like alcohol, porn, food addictions, anger, but co-dependency on our spouses or our children, addiction to control, addiction to negative thinking, to complaining are also addictions. All of these can shroud our lives in a grey weightiness, damage our relationships, and steal our joy. The Fix which dives into the 12 steps and how, when we start with laying our burden at the feet of Jesus and admit we cannot carry it all, we can begin to heal.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning.
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode–
We cannot cast stones because our spouses problems seems bigger or more damaging than our addiction or problems
The beauty in being able to apologise to our children when we mess up
The courage and humility to address areas in our life that are causing problems
The Fix by Ian Morgan Cron
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Ian here:
Ian's Instagram
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
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Live Not by Lies with Emily Wilson Hussem
Emily Wilson Hussem, author of Sincerely, Stoneheart, joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about the lies plaguing women, why it matters that we carve out quiet time, protect our mothering time from distractions, and learn to walk in the truth of what God says about you.
As women, we have beautiful, fertile imaginations, and it is what allows us to see our children as future doctors, creators, homesteaders, and lovers of God. The downside of the imagination is that it makes us more susceptible to believing lies and meditating on fearful things. Emily and Jennifer both share their story with fear and the ways they are pursuing the truth of what God says about who they are, and allowing His Words to define their thoughts and feelings rather than the enemy.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning.
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode–
The importance of protecting our brain from too much noise
Numbing out, shoving down, and holding onto pain makes us more susceptible to listening and reacting to lies
Learning to listen to the truth that God says about us
Not every emotion or feeling is true or worth entertaining
Learning to recognise the lies coming against us as women
Sincerely, Stoneheart by Emily Wilson Hussem
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Emily here:
Emily's Instagram
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
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Decluttering is Peaceful with Julia Ubbenga
Welcome to episode 137 with Julia Ubbenga, the author of Declutter Your Heart and Your Home. At the core of the Restoration Home is not just external change but heart change, and Julia brings so much wisdom and insight into how healing our hearts can declutter our homes, bring us more peace, and stop us from using stuff to fill holes in our hearts.
It is an incredible episode with helpful advice on how to declutter, and, more importantly, how to figure out what is truly important to you and your family.
This episode gives us even more reasons to pursue the "less is more" mindset, because decluttering is peaceful. Plus, the less we have to organise, the more we have time for the things we really love.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is coming Summer of 2025!
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode–
Creating a peaceful home by prioritising what really matters
Understanding the connection between your heart health and your buying habits
The real benefits of having less around the house
Your children don't want stuff, they want your presence
Declutter Your Heart and Your Home by Julia Ubbenga
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Julia here-
Julia's Instagram
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
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Hope and Heroes with Leah Boden
Episode 136 of is a return of our beloved friend Leah Boden and the author of Modern Miss Mason. Leah is back on the #restorationhomepodcast to talk about her incredible new writing project, middle school biographies of heroes of the Restoration Home: C.S. Lewis and Charlotte Mason.
Leah and Jennifer talk about the life lessons learned from Mason and Lewis's lives, which were Christ centered and focused on faithfulness and inspired by God's calling on their lives. This is an incredible conversation for the whole family about having great heroes of the faith and a Christ centered education.
They discuss the role of Charlotte Mason in an education that is story and narrative based. Charlotte Mason education isn't about reading as many books or cramming as much information into our children as possible. Instead, we are stewarding an education that fills them with a deep sense of identity, discernment of good and evil, and the ability to continue learning their whole lives.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is coming Summer of 2025!
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode–
An education that is Christ-centred and not child-centred
Raising children who have hope
What is means to be a hero in the modern context
Giving children great literature that inspires
Chronicles of Wonder: The Story Formed Life of C.S. Lewis and The Angel Orphan: Charlotte Mason Finds Her Way Home by Leah Boden
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Leah here-
Leah's Instagram
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
In this show we talk about the peaceful path to connected families and restored communities. It’s all about the simple things that we do as women that have the potential to save the world.
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