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Now That We're A Family

423: Controversial Subjects We Teach In Our Homeschool

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Voetberg Music Academy 2025 Fall Competition
Tue, Oct. 21, 2025 12:00 PM - Wed, Oct. 22, 2025 3:30 PM

Join us this fall for a music competition that includes:
Guitar | Fiddle | Piano | Mandolin | Ukulele
Entry to the fall competition is free for VMA students. If you are not enrolled Voetberg Music Academy then we would love to have you! You can either sign up for one of our signature courses or pay a one-time $20 entry fee.

Learn more information here - https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com/2025-fall-competition

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Mentioned during podcast:

Mythology books -
“A Severe Mercy” by Sheldon Vanauken - https://amzn.to/4g8TQtg
"D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths" by Ingri d'Aulaire & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire - https://amzn.to/3VuvDDW

Shakespeare books -
"Green Tiger's Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare" by William Shakespeare - https://amzn.to/3HFIjEZ
"Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories" by Leon Garfield - https://amzn.to/4p7Enha
“Tragedies” by William Shakespeare
“How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare” by Ken Ludwig - https://amzn.to/4lZ75xU

Transcript

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0:00.0

just study the truth. And then that way you'll be able to spot the counterfeit when it's presented

0:03.8

to you. False gods, false religions. It's not a study of religion. Everybody considers this

0:09.6

ridiculous. We know the Greeks came up with their gods. The Romans came up with their gods. I don't know

0:15.1

of anyone who's still like worshiping Zeus. Okay, so in today's episode, we get to talk about

0:20.7

three controversial topics

0:22.5

that we are teaching in our homeschool and why we are including them and how we're going

0:27.7

about teaching them. So these are things that I didn't grow up learning. I don't know if

0:32.0

Elisha did. We'll get into that later on in the episode because we haven't talked about this.

0:37.5

But yeah, I think, I mean, we have talked about this, but not his experience.

0:42.8

And so anyways, if you guys enjoy this episode, give it a thumbs up.

0:46.9

Thank you so much for subscribing.

0:48.6

And thanks for sharing this podcast with people that you know and love.

0:51.8

Also, your reviews mean a lot.

0:53.7

So thank you guys.

0:59.7

But now that we're a family podcast.

1:03.0

Okay, before we jump in to these three controversial subjects that we are teaching our children and their homeschooling, I wanted to let you know that at Vopold Music Academy, we are running our biggest music competition ever. We're giving away thousands of dollars and prize money. This is happening in the third week of October. And the reason I'm telling you about it now is because I want to give you time to practice. I want to give you time to prepare. And this is going to, there's going to be

1:27.7

different divisions. Okay. So there's going to be a piano division. Two different age groups within the piano division. Same thing with the fiddle, two different age groups. Guitar, two different age groups. We're going to do one age group for mandolin and ukulele. But if you play any of those instruments, even if you're not currently a Voteberg Music Academy student, we're going to open this up to you. Okay, so it's free to participate if you're a Vopurg Music Academy student. If you are not a Vopurg Music Academy student, you're going to have to pay a small entry fee for the competition. But we're giving away, like I said, thousands of dollars in prize money. And yeah, the criteria is you're

2:01.4

going to need to play a fast song and a slow song or an upbeat song and a slower song. And it's

2:06.4

going to be submission by video and we're going to have three different judges. Anyways, I could go on

2:11.1

and on about it. But I'm really excited about it. My kids are thrilled about it. I love how

2:15.3

competition just makes my children practice so much more

2:19.0

attentively and intentionally. And I know that's how it was for me growing up. And so, you know,

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