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Breaking Generational Patterns as a Homeschool Mom Is the Most Important Work You’ll Do

By: twainausten August 18, 2026August 17, 2026

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A very wise daughter said to me once:

“Mom, the experiences you had as a child are not the ones I’ve had. We are not battling the same things.”

That stopped me cold. Because I had been so caught up in my own story that I couldn’t conceive there was a completely different narrative happening inside my own home.

That is the cycle. And that is what breaking it looks like — one moment of awareness at a time.

New episode on the Confident Homeschool Mom Podcast — type “podcast” to get the link in my DMs.

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7 Questions Homeschool Moms Are Afraid to Ask Out Loud

By: twainausten August 4, 2026August 10, 2026

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If you’ve ever lain awake wondering what’s wrong with your homeschool, know this: you’re asking one of the same questions homeschool moms are asking every single week — you’re just doing it alone, at midnight, with a search bar instead of a friend. After two decades of homeschooling my own four kids, and six years…