The Habits Every Homeschool Family Needs with Leigh Bortins
From Everyday Educator by Classical Conversations Inc.
March 17, 2026 · 43 min · Season 10 · Episode 85
About this episode
Emma Bortins interviews Leigh Bortins about essential habits for homeschool families based on her new book.
What if the most important thing you teach your child has nothing to do with curriculum? In this episode of the Everyday Educator podcast, host Emma Bortins sits down with her mother-in-law and Classical Conversations founder Leigh Bortins to discuss the ideas behind her new book, The Habits: Practicing the Art of Grammar . Together they explore how naming, attending, memorizing, expressing, and storytelling build the foundational habits that help children — and homeschool families — truly flourish. If you're a homeschool mom looking for a classical Christian approach to raising lifelong learners, this conversation is for you. Leigh opens by sharing how it took her twelve years of homeschooling to truly understand what her husband had been telling her all along — that what children need most is consistency. It wasn't until she had a second set of young boys while her older sons were teenagers that the power of habits became undeniable. The routines she had built into Robert and John made it possible to keep the family functioning; without them, the whole thing would have fallen apart. From that personal foundation, the conversation moves into the heart of the book: a framework of…
People in this episode
Host: Emma Bortins
Guest: Leigh Bortins
Topics covered
- homeschooling
- education
- parenting
- classical education
- habits
- learning
Keywords
- homeschool
- habits
- education
- parenting
- classical education
- learning
- grammar
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Classical Conversations
Books & works: The Habits: Practicing the Art of Grammar
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