Ditching the Overwhelm for Family Learning

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Are you craving more joy, flexibility, and real connection in your homeschool? Today’s episode is a deep-dive with Angela Huber, one of our own Homeschool Better Together community moms. Angela’s homeschool journey began like so many: She swore she’d never do it, then got thrown into elearning during 2020 (which, spoiler, did NOT spark joy). Fast-forward, she’s now navigating homeschooling three daughters (with learning differences and a toddler in the mix) and has made some major changes to reclaim that family-learning magic.

Angela shares exactly why her family pivoted away from a rigorous co-op (goodbye, hours of homework and family separation!), and leaned all-in with Wonder Studies, family-style learning, and a focus on togetherness. We get honest about the big switch: her fears around consistency and accountability, how she supports her girls with dyslexia, and why it sometimes feels like the toddler is actually the one in charge.

We laugh about the morning basket snuggles, get nerdy about “connected learning moments,” and get really real about what matters most: kids who want to be with you (even if the science experiment flops and the baby steals everyone’s pencils).

If you’ve ever wondered whether multi-age, family-style learning can actually work (or you need encouragement to step out of the “schooly” grind), this one’s for you.

What you’ll learn:

The surprising reason Angela ditched an intense co-op (and how it changed her homeschool culture)
How she supports TWO kids with dyslexia, builds in “together time,” and keeps learning joyful… even with a toddler underfoot
Exactly what a relaxed, real-life Wonder Studies day looks like (spoiler: it’s not color-coded or Pinterest perfect)
The power of “connected learning moments” and why family learning is deeper (and way more fun!)
How to overcome fears around “gaps,” consistency, and accountability when you leave a co-op
The simple routines and tools Angela uses to keep learning happening year-round
Why her kids say their favorite part isn’t a resource or experiment—but simply “being together”

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For full show notes and a transcript of today’s episode, head to pambarnhill.com/hsbt43

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:05.4	Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?
0:10.3	Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.
0:18.2	I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and
0:22.0	in to the wonder. Let's do this. Today, I am joined by Ms. Angela Huber. She is one of the moms
0:33.7	in our homeschool Better Together community, and she agreed to come on and chat with me
0:38.6	a little bit about what their homeschools been like and some of the changes that they've made
0:43.1	in the past year. Angela, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. Well, tell me a little bit
0:49.2	about the ages of your kids and how many kids you're homeschooling. Okay, I have all girls. I have a 12 year old
0:57.3	and 9 year old and then I have a one one and a half year old. So big gap there. Yeah,
1:03.4	a little bit gap. We've been homeschooling since 2020 and we've been a part of a co-op for the majority of that,
1:13.4	but we've been doing morning time for a long time, even with that co-op. I just loved the old
1:18.3	morning time program that you had. Now we're doing wonder studies. But yeah, we've been homeschooling,
1:24.2	I guess, five years now, and we just love it. It's just, I was one of those
1:28.5	I'll never homeschool people. And then we started doing e-learning during COVID. And that was
1:35.0	absolutely awful. And all my homeschool friends were like, that's not homeschooling. That's not
1:39.1	homeschooling. And I was like, okay, well, maybe I could do it. And then we had to make a choice,
1:44.0	either e-learning or
1:45.4	in-person schooling at the time. And anyway, we just chose to keep homeschooling. And I just tried it
1:50.7	and kind of fell in love with all the quality time that we got to spend and the flexibility that
1:55.6	we had and then sort of discovered that my oldest had dyslexia and just thought, okay, I really think, you know,
2:01.9	homeschooling is probably going to be the best best fit for her. And then we've just, we've just
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