Caleb & Tamara Wheat | Ep. 205

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About this Episode

What happens when homeschooling feels too hard to carry, but too important to let go? Zan welcomes Caleb and Tamara Wheat, known as Doin’ It with a Dozen, to share their remarkable story of loss, love, blended family life, and returning to homeschooling after a year in private school. From the everyday logistics of PB&J sandwich-making to the bigger questions of grief, discipleship, and family life, Caleb and Tamara share the deeper encouragement every homeschool parent needs: you do not have to do it perfectly for it to be worth it. Choose the hard that keeps your children’s hearts close.

Meet My Guest

Imagine finding love again at a theme park, on the hottest day of the year, through a conversation started by a stranger on a scooter. That’s exactly how today’s guests, Caleb and Tamara Wheat, met, each of them a widow and widower, each raising a house full of kids alone, until one ordinary trip to Silver Dollar City turned into the extraordinary story of a blended family of fourteen. Today Caleb and Tamara, known to their thousands of followers as “Doin’ It with a Dozen,” join us to talk about combining two families overnight, homeschooling eleven boys and one girl, and finding “beauty from ashes” in a story only God could write.

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Mentioned in this Episode

• BJU Press Homeschool
• Homeschool Hub

Podcast Sponsor

At BJU Press Homeschool, we’re committed to providing children an education from a biblical worldview that is academically sound and challenges them to advance, think critically, and live like Christ. This type of education is not often possible in public schools because of the number of children taught in a classroom, a difference in worldview, and peer and societal pressure to conform. Homeschooling allows parents to instruct and disciple their children without daily fighting messages from an opposing worldview taught in the classroom. And with tuition costs and fees for private schooling or tutoring, homeschooling may be the only option for parents who are concerned for their children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
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