A quiet time routine that actually works in a homeschool does not happen by accident, and pediatric sleep consultant Jessie Martin of The Goodnight House joins Erin to show how to build one. They cover nap time tips for kids 3 and under, homeschool quiet time for older kids, and how Jessie is building a sleep app while homeschooling four children.

What you'll learn in this episode

• Nap time tips for little ones, including a by the clock schedule built on age-appropriate wake windows, a dark room, and white noise.
• How to set up homeschool quiet time with a simple "quiet reading time" and how to reset it after a break.
• How a pediatric sleep consultant plans her week so she can work during quiet time and still homeschool.
• What it looks like to build an app one next step at a time.

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.

Links mentioned

• The Goodnight House: thegoodnighthouse.com
• Jessie on Instagram: @thegoodnighthouse
• Sleep Without Sleep Training guide: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/shop/p/healthy-sleep-without-sleep-training-1
• Free Yoto audiobook list: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/podcast/wheretofindfreeyotocontent
• App waitlist or beta signup: https://summer-sunset-90790.myflodesk.com/rlx4pd2rsc
• Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM CST): erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
• erinmeinel.com

If you want to start a business as a homeschool mom but keep waiting until you feel ready, this episode is for you. Erin shares what the littlest hockey players and her son's first game taught her about planting something small and putting it where people can find it.

What you'll learn in this episode

• Why the best homeschool mom business ideas start as one small thing you can do this week, not a finished brand.
• How to start a business while homeschooling by taking one public step before you feel qualified.
• What it looks like to build a work from home homeschool mom income in the margin you already have.
• Why the first step in your business is usually unpaid, and why that does not mean it is not working.

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.

Links mentioned

• Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM Central): erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
• erinmeinel.com

Your first year homeschooling will almost never look like what you pictured, and that is not a sign you chose wrong. In this episode, Erin Meinel tells the story of carrying ten years of kindergarten classroom up from her basement and rebuilding school inside her own living room, what she pulled out within weeks, and the one thing she kept that changed the entire shape of their days.

This is the planting season, homeschool side. It is for the first-year mom wondering whether she is doing this wrong, and for the mom in year three who is still running something she inherited rather than chose.

In this episode

• Why everybody plants what she already knows in her first year homeschooling, and why that is completely normal
• What Erin brought up from her basement, and how fast she had to pull it back out
• The one thing she kept, and why letting kids move during read alouds changed everything
• The permission a former teacher had that most homeschool moms do not, and how to give it to yourself
• Why you should plant less curriculum than you think you need

Links mentioned

• erinmeinel.com

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• erinmeinel.com
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand