I was privileged to talk to friend and author Christina Brown about her homeschooling journey and why she created Alphabet Smash, a wonderful resource for preschoolers that focuses on one letter at a time and brings in multiple activities from various subject areas to teach the child about that letter and it’s sound. Christina is heavily involved in leadership in the homeschool community in Charlotte, NC, and she also spoke at and helped plan the Lifeschooling Conferences.

Christina  is a homeschool momma of three and the author of AKAHomeschoolMom.com and Alphabet Smash.  Her work has been featured in Proverbs 31 Magazine, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Home Educator Family Times, Greenhouse and others.  She is a hopeless logophile and always brakes for yard sales.  She enjoys yoga, running, photography and wants to own some chickens! Her writing is inspired from her faith in Jesus Christ, adventures in NC with her Adventure Group, and her 25 year marriage to best friend, Richard.  She has homeschooled for more than 18 years, serves on the board of ZOE Teens, Co-Moderates CCHNet (Charlotte Christian Homeschool Network-the largest online support group in Charlotte), and serves as a Region 4 Liaison to NCHE. Christina’s passion is to encourage others to intentionally connect faith, family, and fun. You can connect with Christina on her website, www.AKAhomeschoolmom.

Here is what I talk to Christina about on this episode:

• Christina, you are part of our Lifeschooling Conference team and a huge help to me every year on that event. And this year, you spoke at one of the workshop sessions. I know you’ve done some public speaking before. How was that experience?
• How was your school experience?
• Did you always want to homeschool?
• How did you get started homeschooling?
• Tell us about Alphabet Smash. What was the idea behind it? How and why did you write it ?
• Give us an example of a letter of the week and tell us how you can incorporate music, Bible, math etc. into this curriculum.
• Your talk for the 2017 Lifeschooling Conference was about being intentional. Can you define intentional for us? I also understand that your next goal is to write a book on that subject.  How is that process going?
• How long have you homeschooled and do you have any that you have graduated yet?
• What do you most want listeners to know?

If you would like to grab a copy of Christina’s book, Alphabet Smash, you can find it here.

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