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Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly

Homeschooling in Hindsight: Reflections from a 30-year homeschool veteran & mom of 9 | Cindy Rollins

Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly

Haley Williams

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.5627 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I am so excited I got to sit down and chat with the wonderful Cindy Rollins. Cindy homeschooled nine children for over 30 years using Charlotte Mason’s timeless ideas. She's the author of Mere Motherhood: Morning Time, Nursery Rhymes, My Journey Toward Sanctification, The Mere Motherhood Newsletters, Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah and Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love along with its Anthology.

If you're a homeschool mom (but even if you're not) you'll love this conversation. It's got tons of encouragement for mothers in every season of motherhood.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay. So today on Kindled, I'm chatting with Cindy Rollins. Cindy, thank you for being here today.

0:24.6

Thank you for having me. I'm very excited about this. Me too. I have known who you were for a couple years because when I first started homeschooling a little over, well, almost two years ago, actually, a friend. I was looking into what

0:38.0

books do I need to read to prepare. We were pulling our kids from private school. And I had a bunch of

0:43.0

books that I was, you know, starting and listening on Audible. And a friend said, those are all okay,

0:48.7

but you need to just put Cindy Rollins, mirror motherhood at the top of your list, I promise you. She was like,

0:55.3

you've got to start there. And I did. And I absolutely loved it. Appreciate your work so much and

1:02.1

have been really blessed by it. So thank you for, thank you for writing. Thank you. I appreciate

1:07.7

that so much. I love, you know, helping young moms and I love,

1:12.0

I love people coming to homeschooling and getting on a good footing philosophically right in the

1:17.7

very beginning. It saves a lot of trouble. Totally. Yes, it does. It's, yeah, so much of it is,

1:23.3

like, your approach and your mindset around what you're doing, what the angle is. So, yeah, before we hop into, you know, all of the questions I have for you, if you could just share with people a little bit about who you are and what you do. Yeah, so right now, I'm, I had nine children, so I'm getting ready for Thanksgiving right now. We're going to have our family Thanksgiving. We homeschooled them all the way

1:44.5

through. My youngest son did go to school for four years at the end because it was just going to be

1:49.0

me and him alone. And we kind of had a boys school because we had eight boys. So it was like

1:54.7

private boys' school for years, very masculine, very physical. And then it was just going to be this young boy with me.

2:03.0

But that worked out well. The Lord had his hand in it. I just have seen so many answers to prayers

2:08.4

about dealing with our children as individuals, as Charlotte Mason would say. But now all my kids are

2:14.5

grown. Everybody's out of the house, and my husband is retired.

2:18.2

And I have a Patreon where I do a lot of discipleship stuff on my Patreon.

2:23.3

That's where I put my heart and soul at this point in time.

2:26.9

But we also have the new Mason Jar podcast.

2:30.0

Okay.

2:30.7

That's awesome.

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