The other day, we went for a hike with some friends. I soon lost sight of my eldest child. They shared a story with me about their experience up and over the hill, jumping trustfully at the beckoning of another, working together with a friend to achieve great feats. The story they shared that evening when we returned, encouraged me in my act as an unschooling mother: If we give our children the space to experience this environment with little constraints and direct observation, they will learn sooo much.

All about balance. One evening after the kids are asleep, I take a moment for myself, my personal enjoyment, to talk about the importance of achieving a balance with self-care and homeschool/unschooling to achieve a healthy balance. Integrating their lives and your life is the key. Find the balance and soar.

Cutting up food for a tomato sauce on a Sunday afternoon and talking about the options that exist primarily in BC for home learning. Heartwood Learning Community is the Distance Learning (DL) program whose name I forget in the episode. I mention a few other specific programs. Here is a good resource for choosing home learning while registered in alternative DL school providers: https://www.learnnowbc.ca/Schools/

Listen to me find melody and song, scritch scratch out new poetry, experiment, stretch, try, and offer a final draft of a very new song. So personal. Enjoy!

It's 4pm. The kids are playing outside. I rant about how to attune to a flow that is ecologically founded in the sweet empowering embrace of chaos and impermanence.

Mom has the kids for the afternoon. I have a moment in a car ride home from a photo shoot to rant about how important self care is, no matter one's walk of life. Especially when journeying through home learning with children, full-time. How does one balance personal needs with other's needs? Find time for the self and listen to the hilarious description of using hide-and-go-seek as a moment for yourself.

Kids are playing. I talk about how trust plays into daily life and how it creates open space to learn out of the Self instead of according to others'.