“Am I making the right decision?”
Homeschool moms make hundreds of decisions.
- Which books should we use?
- Should we press through or take a break?
- Does this child need more discipline, more help, or simply more time?
- Should we change our plan—or finally stick with it?
We want to choose wisely, but wisdom can feel frustratingly difficult to apply in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday.
Learn how to think, choose, and act with prudence in your homeschool.
Prudence is more than being careful.
“Prudence is right reason applied to action.”
– Thomas Aquinas
A professional development day for homeschool moms.
LIVE
Saturday, October 10, 2026
9:00-3:45 Pacific
from attendees
You do not need a perfect plan. You need practical wisdom.
what we believe about PRUDENCE –
1
PRUDENCE IS NEVER TIMID.
Prudence does not mean endlessly worrying, avoiding risks, or choosing whatever seems safest.
A prudent woman sees her circumstances clearly, considers what matters, and acts for the sake of the right end—even when the right action is difficult.
2
PRUDENCE CONNECTS PRINCIPLES TO PARTICULARS.
Knowing what is true is not always the same as knowing what to do next.
Homeschooling includes particular children, particular limitations, particular seasons, and particular responsibilities. Prudence helps us faithfully apply what we know to the situation actually in front of us.
3
PRUDENCE DIRECTS THE OTHER VIRTUES.
Good intentions are not enough.
Courage without prudence can become recklessness. Temperance without prudence can become rigid control. Justice without prudence can become a blunt formula.
Prudence helps us determine what faithfulness requires here, now, with these people and these circumstances.
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Come spend the day with practical, hands-on, conversational, and relational sessions
We provide a professional development day for moms, perfect for individual OR group use!
Physical hostess kits available until sold out!
Introducing
VIRTUES OF THE HOMESCHOOL MOM:
PRUDENCE
This retreat begins a new Scholé Sisters series exploring the virtues a homeschool mother needs—not merely to complete her lessons, but to fulfill her vocation with wisdom, steadiness, and love.
Our retreats are a unique blend of online conference, live podcast, and face-to-face community.
We stream four live sessions made up of shorter conversational segments, keeping the pace lively, the discussion personal, and the ideas grounded. We prepare carefully, but we also interact with one another, so there is substance without an extended talking-head lecture.
When you join live, you can participate in the attendee chat and optional Zoom breakout rooms where you will discuss practical applications with other homeschool moms.
You will not merely hear about prudence as an abstract philosophical concept.
You will learn how prudence changes the way you:
Mystie Winckler (ID). Brandy Vencel (TX). Abby Wahl (OR).
No. We’re not actually sisters.
Hi! We’re the Scholé Sisters.
Like you, we homeschool our children for better or for worse
We have all struggled to know what wisdom requires in the middle of real homeschool life.
We have second-guessed decisions, changed plans too quickly, clung to plans too long, worried about circumstances beyond our control, and known the frustrating experience of having a good plan but failing to carry it out.
Homeschooling well can be an overwhelming and lonely task. We want to give you practical help that makes it less overwhelming and connect you with sisters who understand what you are going through.
Together, we will draw from the classical and medieval Christian tradition—not to become academic experts in virtue theory, but to become wiser women who grow in love of God, love of our families, and faithfulness in our work.
OUR RETREAT’s CURRICULUM
Here is what we will cover…
#1
Prudence: What Is It?
Prudence is often mistaken for caution, efficiency, intelligence, or good instincts.
But the classical tradition gives us a richer definition: prudence is the virtue of seeing reality truthfully, discerning what should be done, and directing action toward a genuinely good end.
#2
Prudence: Its Excesses and Deficiencies
Our problem is not always that we lack information.
Sometimes we act before thinking. Sometimes we refuse to look honestly at the facts. Sometimes we recognize the right course and then fail to carry it out.
The medieval tradition identifies several vices opposed to prudence, including rashness, indecision, ignorance, and carelessness.
#3
Prudence: Applied Today
With decades of combined homeschooling experience and multiple graduates between them, Brandy, Abby, and Mystie will apply prudence to real decisions homeschool moms face.
You will learn how to deliberate thoughtfully without becoming paralyzed by endless research, second-guessing, or fear of making the wrong choice.
#4
Prudence: How to Cultivate It
Prudence does not appear as a sudden flash of certainty. It works through a process. We will explore the practical movements traditionally associated with prudence.
Every session will include practical reflection and application so that you leave prepared to make your next decision—not every future decision—with greater wisdom and confidence.
INVIte some friends and make it a real retreat
Pull your local moms together for a fun, easy teacher in-service community day.
GEt the deets on how easy we make hosting a local community day!
“We all agreed it was well worth our time.”
— Jaime Shorey
We want local connections and face-to-face discussion to be easy for you to do.
If you want to plan a local “teacher’s inservice day” for your own homeschool community at a local church, library, home, conference room, other retreat venue, or virtually – we’ll help you make it a day to remember.
Your local retreat gathering can happen live or be scheduled after October 10 with the recordings on your own schedule.
Your local attendees will only pay $20 to attend (plus anything you want to add to cover extra costs), scoring a $9.99 discount off the regular price AND still receiving the replay recordings after the group invoice is paid. Part of that $20 will reimburse your own hostess kit cost and we will invoice you for $18/person after you submit a photo of your registration sheet (provided in the kit).
PLUS, as a hostess, you’ll be invited into the Local Leader’s Sistership Group with dozens of other local hostesses, several of whom have done events for 5 years now.
Use this Virtues of the Homeschool Mom Retreat as an excuse to gather homeschool moms together and foster meaningful connections and relationships. We make it easy, promise.
Virtues of a Homeschool Mom: Prudence
Mystie, Abby, and Brandy will help you understand prudence through the classical and medieval Christian tradition and apply it to the actual decisions you face as a homeschool mother.
Each session includes an application wrap-up to help you reflect on what you have learned and take your next faithful step.
This is the teacher’s development day you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
Virtues of the Homeschool Mom:
PRUDENCE
You will never possess all the information, eliminate every uncertainty, or make every decision perfectly.
Prudence does not require any perfection.
Prudence enables you to see what is true, seek counsel, judge faithfully, choose an appropriate course, and then act.
Join Mystie, Abby, Brandy, and homeschool moms around the world for a day devoted to becoming wiser women and steadier guides.
This is the teacher’s development day you need.