The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast

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The 2025 season brings new hosts to the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast! Yvette Hampton is joined by Aby Rinella, Meeke Addison, Kristi Clover, and Cindy West, to share Biblical homeschooling, parenting, and family discipleship encouragement and advice. Each show shares practical tips to help point our children to Christ, build a solid Biblical worldview, teach effectively, preserve our marriages, manage our homes, and approach child-rearing and discipline issues with a heart-centered focus that will result in confident, biblically-minded, wise, well-balanced adults.

Back to School - Bringing Passion and Enjoyment to the Homeschool Year - Aby Rinella

Join us for an inspiring episode of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast, as Aby Rinella is back with Yvette Hampton to discuss their excitement about the new homeschool year. Aby shares their passion for teaching American history through literature-based learning and their plans to incorporate audiobooks into their teaching. With a focus on teaching anatomy and physiology using Apologia curriculum, Aby also talks about the benefits of learning natural medicine for their high school daughter. She also shares her strategies for effective planning and how they have revamped their curriculum to make homeschooling even more engaging and enjoyable.

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2023: Highlights From the Homeschool Year - Aby Rinella

As Summer Approaches, Aby Rinella and Yvette Hampton share the highlights from the past year of homeschooling, important lessons they have learned through the year, and how they and their children have grown. They talk about the challenges and successes they have faced, the resources they have found helpful, and the advice they would give to other homeschooling families. They also share some of their favorite homeschooling moments and memories.

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Why Homeschooling Matters: Getting to the Heart of Homeschooling - Aby Rinella

“Why am I doing this homeschool thing?” How many times do we ask ourselves this question? Aby Rinella joins Yvette Hampton in this session from the 2020 Homegrown Generation Family Expo to answer this question.

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You Can Afford to Homeschool - Aby Rinella

Aby Rinella and Yvette Hampton talk about homeschooling and money! During this three-part conversation, Aby gives practical advice for managing household finances and for homeschooling on a budget. They also discuss free curriculum options, charter schools, and government money for homeschooling.

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Planning for Homeschool Challenges - Yvette and Aby Answer Your Questions

Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella answer your homeschooling questions and address the topics: "How do we prepare for the challenges of homeschooling?," "What's the best way to involve dad?," "How do we have peace in our home and effectively deal with sibling rivalry?," and "How do avoid homeschool battles with our kids and teach them to love learning?"

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We Made a Movie! Schoolhouse Rocked Production Update - Aby Rinella

In this special episode of the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast, Yvette gets to hear Aby’s reaction and first-hand account of watching the full movie for the first time. They discuss what the movie is about, why it’s needed, and how you can be part of getting this important documentary into the hands of people around the world. Join Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella for this encouraging conversation about God’s goodness and his miraculous work through the production of this important film.

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It's Summer! Aby Rinella

You made it through another school year full of laughter, tears, struggles and lightbulb moments sprinkled throughout a year full of learning, growing, and being together. The countdown has come to an end and your much-deserved break is here. Celebrate with Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella.

The textbooks are shelved, the dry erase markers put away and the alarm clocks can take a rest. Everything slows down and a new kind of fun begins.

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The American Story - Tim Barton

Freedom! Where does it come from and how did we get it? Are we still a free nation? If not, how do we get it back and how do we keep it? What is our role as Christian parents, and how does teaching our kids Biblical morality produce a free society?

Join Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella for an engaging conversation with guest Tim Barton, homeschool graduate and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that presents America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our religious, moral, and constitutional heritage.

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Let Freedom Ring! The Fight for Homeschool Freedom - Zan Tyler

Do you find it difficult to trust in a world that's seemingly gone mad? How can we learn to trust the Lord through hard times? Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella talk with veteran homeschool mom, speaker, and author, Zan Tyler about how she learned to put all her trust in her Savior through some very difficult and life altering situations.

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Building Routine into Your Homeschool Day - February Q&A - Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella

Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella answer your questions about moving to a new town with a much smaller homeschool community and how to build routine into your homeschool day. You are sure to be encouraged!

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For the Love of Homeschooling - Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella

We all love our kids, but how do we show it? Or do we show it? What does the Bible have to say about love? Sometimes love doesn’t come naturally and oftentimes we have to really work at it. Thankfully, God has provided us with a beautiful blueprint on how to love those in our lives. Join Yvette and Aby as they talk through this important topic and give suggestions on how to love your family well.

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I Hate Homeschooling - Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella

I Hate Homeschooling! When will the yellow bus be here? Where do I sign them up for “real school?” Have you ever had any of these thoughts?

Join Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella as they discuss the many reasons why some hate homeschooling, then be encouraged as they share some ways to combat those feelings of discouragement, anxiety, and inability.

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For Such a Time as This - Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella

How do we remain steadfast at home while the world is seemingly on fire? We turn to God’s Word and heed His instructions to us. We MUST gird up and teach our kids to do the same. He is a merciful God with a great plan and, like Queen Esther, He has each one of us here for such a time as this!

Join Yvette Hampton and Aby Rinella for this encouraging conversation on the important role of mothers and how to live with courage.

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