

Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
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Aug 28, 2025 • 36min
422: Can We Start Homeschooling Too Soon?
Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way. -OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).-Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass

Aug 26, 2025 • 44min
421: Q and A
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).- Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission

Aug 21, 2025 • 48min
420: Deconstructing The Myth Of The Perfect Family
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).- Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way.

Aug 19, 2025 • 46min
419: Talking To Our Kids About Gender with Dr. Jeff Myers
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).-Dr. Jeff Myers is president of Summit Ministries and has become one of America’s most respected authorities on youth leadership development. Through his speaking engagements and media appearances, Dr. Myers has become a fresh voice offering humor and insight from a Christian worldview. He is the author of 19 books, including Understanding the Faith, Understanding the Times, and Understanding the Culture textbooks which are studied by tens of thousands of students. Dr. Myers holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Denver. Jeff and his wife Stephanie and their family live in Colorado. His newest book, Raising Gender-Confident Kids, co-authored by Dr. Kathy Koch, released nationwide July 29, 2025. You can get the book here for free - www.genderconfidentkids.com You can learn more about Dr. Jeff and follow along with him here - - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjeffmyers/ - X: https://x.com/drjeffmyers - Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-changes-everything/id1560449387 - Summit Ministries Website: https://www.summit.org/

Aug 14, 2025 • 45min
418: Our Hardest Seasons and What Got Us Through
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).-Mentioned during podcast: "The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results" by Gary Keller - https://amzn.to/415SBVr

Aug 12, 2025 • 1h 2min
417: Research Behind Why Women Want Big Families with Catherine Pakaluk
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students). - Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an American economist and social philosopher at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Pakaluk is author of the acclaimed ethnography Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and more. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. The mother of eight children, she is married to American philosopher Michael Pakaluk. They split their time between suburban Maryland and New Hampshire’s White Mountains. “Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth” by Catherine Pakaluk - https://amzn.to/41uGXmT Website - https://pakaluk.com/ Twitter - https://x.com/CRPakaluk/highlights

Aug 7, 2025 • 43min
416: Why Parenting Is Our Second Chance
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Back to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students). - “When your Child is 6 to 12” by John Drescher - https://amzn.to/41nJnno

Aug 5, 2025 • 52min
415: Are We Done Having Kids?
Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass

Jul 31, 2025 • 42min
414: Embracing The "Slow" Life As A Millennial Mom
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comBack to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students).- Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetbergThis is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way.

Jul 29, 2025 • 39min
413: Deciding What Homeschool Curriculum Is Best For Your Family
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Back to School Sale - Use coupon code: BACKTOSCHOOL2025 for 20% off your first month's subscription (available for the first 200 students). - Join us on Substack - https://substack.com/@elishaandkatievoetberg This is a newsletter and deeply personal space for us to share family life, homeschooling, and music with you all. We have been writing on Instagram and email for years, but ever since leaving social media behind with our smart phones a few years ago, we have been looking for another space to connect in a meaningful way. Planning My Homeschool Year - https://elishaandkatievoetberg.substack.com/p/planning-my-homeschool-year?r=5siwo8 Mother's Timetable: Explained - https://elishaandkatievoetberg.substack.com/p/mothers-timetable-explained?r=5siwo8 - Homeschool Course: The First Three Years Laying a foundation of joy, confidence, and a love of learning from the start. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool For 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL - Curriculum - https://www.memoriapress.comBooks mentioned during podcast: - "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" by Siegfried Engelmann - https://amzn.to/3GM55KZ - “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll - https://amzn.to/46YLf9I - “Socrates' Children” by Peter Kreeft - https://amzn.to/4kWmGgY - “The Heroes” by Charles Kingsley - https://amzn.to/44ZJDdm - “D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths” by Ingri d'Aulaire - https://amzn.to/44QpM1m - “The Children of the New Forest” by Captain Marryat - https://amzn.to/4maPALp - “Marco Polo” by George Makepeace Towle - https://amzn.to/4o56pJl - “This Country of Ours” by H. E. Marshall - https://amzn.to/4nXTGbs - “Parables From Nature” by Mrs Margaret Gatty - https://amzn.to/44NB1HX