Brave Writer

By Julie Bogart | Brave Writer

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S6E21. Teaching Your Childr...

12.09.2020

Ken Ludwig shares why Shakespeare is still relevant today and how we can introduce him to our children.

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12.09.2020 S6E21. Teaching Your Children Shakespeare \| with Ken Ludwig Ken Ludwig shares why Shakespeare is still relevant today and how we can introduce him to our children.
11.25.2020 S6E20. Overturning Overwhelm When we face resistance or challenge, it’s so easy to abandon ourselves and declare: I’m overwhelmed! Today’s episode is all about overturning that overwhelm and reclaiming our power—especially for women (though men are welcome to listen along).
09.23.2020 S6E19. What’s Worth Fighting (About) For? Let’s discuss the difference between fighting for something and fighting about it.
09.16.2020 S6E18. That Pernicious Topic: Chores I go over the three myths of childhood chores and how to truly get your child’s buy in on housework, if you find it necessary.
09.02.2020 S6E17. Rigor vs. Relaxed Alertness: The Sweet Spot Let’s discuss how to balance the temptation to keep homeschooling rigorous enough with getting our children into a state of “relaxed alertness.”
08.19.2020 S6E16. When You Worry About Public School Standards I answer the question: How can I shed my fear that my children won’t be ready to enter the school system one day? We discuss the difference between being educated and being schooled, being a learner and being a student.
08.12.2020 S6E15. Growing Minds How do we facilitate learning in a way that encourages joy, curiosity, and the natural inclination to discover new things? Let’s explore how growing minds can absorb the three R’s of education in an interesting and engaging way.
08.05.2020 S6E14. Creativity in Teaching I outline the five steps to creativity in teaching and how, even if you believe you are not a creative person, you can discover imaginative ideas for learning.
07.29.2020 S6E13. Joy-Centered Learning for the Reluctant Learner How do you give your child a well-rounded education when there are certain subjects they refuse to learn? I have a seven-step strategy to incorporate the subjects you have deemed necessary for your child’s academic growth.
07.22.2020 S6E12. Healthy Diverse Homeschool Communities Homeschooling should reflect a microcosm of society, not shelter children from different viewpoints. Let’s discuss how to create an open, diverse homeschooling community that you and your children can learn from.
07.15.2020 S6E11. Marriage, Divorce, and Homeschooling One of the hardest decisions to make when your children’s lives and education are at stake is whether or not to stay with your partner or get a divorce. Let’s look at how to know when it’s time to go, ...
07.01.2020 S6E10. Out of the Classroom: Brave Schooling As we approach a new school year, many people are looking at homeschooling for the first time. How do we facilitate learning at home, possibly while working for hire, without disrupting our child’s education?
05.06.2020 S6E9. What Are the Risks of Homeschooling? I respond to Harvard Magazine’s article, “The Risks of Homeschooling.”
03.23.2020 S6E8. Tips for Suddenly-at-Home Schoolers & Working from Home While Schooling I share tips for those of you who are unexpectedly forced to homeschool your kids and for those who have to work from home while teaching their kids.
03.11.2020 S6E7. Finding Common Ground in Homeschool Communities We talk about finding like-minded groups of homeschoolers, the issues that can arise within them, and the merits of wide and narrow tents.
02.26.2020 S6E6. What To Do When Your Kid Has No Passion What do you do when your child has no clear passion, or when the things they choose to spend their time on don’t appear to be “educational?”
02.19.2020 S6E5. To Parent Or Not To Parent: That Is The Question We ARE parents. But the question I want us to consider in this episode is: do we do an action called “parenting?” Do I do an action that can be described as “parenting?”
02.12.2020 S6E4. When You Have No Energy To Do Any Of It Today’s question will likely feel very familiar to pretty much any parent: “What if you just don’t have the energy to do all the stuff? The magic-making, the planning, the execution of all the tasks? I know what needs to ...
02.05.2020 S6E3. How Do You Balance Being a Parent & a Teacher? How do you balance your roles as a parent and a teacher?
01.29.2020 S6E2. Love + Collaboration in Learning You might be coming to the show to learn about teaching six kids six different subjects, dealing with cantankerous children, or sharing your love of reading with a kid who doesn’t seem interested yet — and if you want to ...
01.22.2020 S6E1. Celebrating 20 Years of Brave Writers Julie Bogart shares the story of how she went from a homeschooling mother to a solopreneur to a CEO — plus a little bit of what’s in store to celebrate the 20th year of Brave Writer!
02.11.2019 BONUS: Getting Wild + Free \| with Greta Eskridge Julie is getting ready to go down to Texas to present at the https://www.bewildandfree.org/frisco (Wild + Free) conference, so today we talk with someone who’s been getting Wild + Free since the inception of this beautiful gem of a community. ...
02.05.2019 BONUS: The Brave Learner: Happy Book Birthday! We are so excited because it is the Book Birthday of Julie’s brand new book, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life! We’ve heard from a lot of brave homeschooling parents throughout this season of the ...
01.28.2019 S5E12: Routines, Chaos, and Big Goals—Oh My! Today we’re joined by five wonderful moms from the CO Springs Homeschool Mamas Group. So instead of focusing on just one question, we’ll tackle one from each of them, representing the wide variety of problems that every homeschooling parent has ...
01.21.2019 S5E11: Breaking Free From Multitasking \| with Courtney Moyer Courtney Moyer, a homeschooling mother of four (plus a young niece), wrote to Julie saying, “The consistent homeschool challenge that has confronted me is homeschooling multiple children at multiple levels, lacking expertise to multitask... It seems that chaos overrides my ...
01.14.2019 S5E10: Prepping Your Teen for Adulthood \| with Myah St. John Our guest Myah St. John homeschools three children (plus a newborn), and her oldest child, 14, is on the verge of high school. Myah’s always embraced a one-room schoolhouse model for her family, but she finds herself floundering trying to ...
01.07.2019 S5E9: Awesome Adulting \| with Jessica Hammond Jessica Hammond is a homeschooling mother of two who feels conflicted as she tries to spin half a dozen plates. She has a laundry list of passion projects and hobbies, and she wants to be able to devote time and ...
12.24.2018 S5E8: Cultivating Connection in a Large Family \| with Jardel Manalo Jardel Manalo is a homeschooling mother of five, ranging from the ages of two to 12, who also opened her school doors to a wonderful 12-year-old young woman named Samantha. That’s a lot of children at a lot of different ...
12.17.2018 S5E7: Finding Balance in High School \| with Karen Goldstein Karen Goldstein and her son Elijah are struggling with the difficult transition into high school. It can be a challenge to fit in the oftentimes-rigorous high school work while still allowing breathing room for a laid-back, enjoyable lifestyle – and ...
12.10.2018 S5E6: Community is Self-Care \| with Jennifer Hunter Today’s guest, Jennifer Hunter, is a mother struggling with a problem that afflicts many homeschooling parents. Jennifer says, “My homeschool challenge is that I am lonely! My kids are all young, and while I am honoured to be spending my ...
12.03.2018 S5E5: When Learning Isn’t Fun \| with Anne Trott There’s a dilemma that plagues every homeschooling parent’s mind at some point in their journey, filling threads online and conversations in person: How can we make learning fun? And then the natural follow up question comes up: Do we have ...
11.26.2018 S5E4: Checklist Lovers: Planning From Behind \| with Jennifer Vetter Jenniver Vetter is a brave mother of six who has been homeschooling for nine years. She has embraced the emphasis on relationship and freedom in learning that homeschooling offers, but she worries that her children also need to learn skills ...
11.19.2018 S5E3: What About Technology? \| with Lindsay McCarthy In this day and age, we are so connected to technology. We carry these magic little screens with us everywhere – and if you’re anything like us, it can start to feel like a third arm! We use them for ...
11.12.2018 S5E2: Growing a Mind & Cultivating Curiosity \| with Christa Gregg Today we’re going to talk to a brave mother who wants to support her children’s dreams, is inspired by everything she’s learned about on Brave Writer... but feels stumped. She wants her family to be immersed in a culture of ...
11.05.2018 S5E1: Embracing Elements of Home \| with Tammy Kim Over the past four seasons, our help inbox has been flooded with What Abouts: What about the kid who won’t work hard? What about college? What about chores? There are vexing dilemmas that come up in a lot of our ...
10.01.2018 S4E32: The Same Page \| with MacKenzie Koppa Our guest MacKenzie Koppa (aka Bold Turquoise) is the creator of a slew of resources for families: the Cultivating the Lovely podcast, the Lovely Homeschool online course, and the brand new The Same Page podcast. http://boldturquoise.com/thesamepage/ (The Same Page) is ...
09.24.2018 S4E31: Homeschooling High School: Real Talk about Teens, Writing, Wonder, and Weirdness Homeschooling changes when you transition into the scary world of teenagers, so today I want to discuss teens in general and what you can expect from a homeschool with teenagers. After home births, breastfeeding, babywearing, cosleeping, and having a wonderfully ...
09.17.2018 S4E30: Making Money as a Parent & Homeschooler Before Julie started Brave Writer, she worked as a freelance writer, freelance magazine editor, and a ghostwriter – which is to say, yes, you can simultaneously pursue a dream or passion and homeschool! Whether you want to earn money, go ...
09.10.2018 S4E29: How to Be Your Child's Partner in Writing After working with parents for years, we have learned that there is often a reluctance to giving your own efforts to your child’s writing. But kids with parents who are involved in their education get better grades, and as a ...
09.03.2018 S4E28: 6 Writing Myths Busted! There’s a difference between correct writing and good writing. You can check off all the boxes and put together a series of grammatically correct sentences, but does that engage the reader and make them want to keep reading? Probably not! ...
08.27.2018 S4E27: Modern Miss Mason \| with Leah Boden We talk to Leah Boden about how we can all bring Charlotte Mason to the 21st century in our own homes.
08.20.2018 S4E26: Breaking the Cycle of Homeschool Despair: Don’t Let ‘What if...’ Get You Off Track Imagine this scene: your child is reading a book, and they’ve been reading for a few months now. Suddenly, you think, “What if I had taught them to read this other way? What if I had used this other philosophy ...
08.13.2018 S4E25: Learning How to Learn \| with Barbara Oakley We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., educator, writer, engineer, and perhaps most importantly, a female Indiana Jones! Barbara’s work focuses on the complex relationships between neuroscience and social behavior, and we think that any ...
08.06.2018 S4E24: Unschool Undefined (& Other Home Education Philosophies) Do you ever feel stressed out talking about home education philosophies? When Unschooling, Classical Education, or Charlotte-Mason come up, do you ever feel like you’re going to have to defend yourself? Have you ever felt this way in an academic ...
07.30.2018 S4E23: The Top 10 Things to Have Done by the End of High School Before getting into the topic of this episode – the top 10 things to have done by the end of highschool – we want to make something clear: you can’t teach your children everything by the time they’re 18. As ...
07.23.2018 S4E22: Exploring Learning Differences: ADD, ADHD, Dysgraphia, Autism, Dyslexia A disclaimer for this episode: we are not trained experts and our specialty is not special needs, so anything we share today is based on our own efforts to do research and learn from other trained efforts. So nothing in ...
07.16.2018 S4E21: Are you one big happy family? Homeschool advice for the frazzled! Are you a happy family… or are you not? Today, we hope to solve that dilemma! There’s a temptation to only consider the family identity when we think about our families, and that can be a wonderful identity to share! ...
07.02.2018 S4E20: Partnership Home Education: Finding Friends for You We often see families join Brave Writer or The Homeschool Alliance who get excited about this style of living, but then we struggle to find other like-minded individuals out there in the world. Even in the homeschooling community, there can ...
06.25.2018 S4E19: Family Dynamics in Homeschool: The Roles Your Kids Play Today we want to talk about the roles in our families – and the incredible power of choice. We delve into the labels and roles we use to characterize our kids, how those may limit our children, and how to ...
06.18.2018 S4E18: No Silver Bullet: Searching for the Perfect Homeschool Curriculum Julie spends a lot of time looking at the homeschooling zeitgeist, and she notices a common theme coming up every so often: the search for the one thing that’s going to magically create a flawless homeschool. But really we shouldn’t ...

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Brave Writer episodes:

S6E21. Teaching Your Children Shakespeare | with Ken Ludwig

S6E20. Overturning Overwhelm

S6E19. What’s Worth Fighting (About) For?

S6E18. That Pernicious Topic: Chores

S6E17. Rigor vs. Relaxed Alertness: The Sweet Spot

S6E16. When You Worry About Public School Standards

S6E15. Growing Minds

S6E14. Creativity in Teaching

S6E13. Joy-Centered Learning for the Reluctant Learner

S6E12. Healthy Diverse Homeschool Communities

S6E11. Marriage, Divorce, and Homeschooling

S6E10. Out of the Classroom: Brave Schooling

S6E9. What Are the Risks of Homeschooling?

S6E8. Tips for Suddenly-at-Home Schoolers & Working from Home While Schooling

S6E7. Finding Common Ground in Homeschool Communities

S6E6. What To Do When Your Kid Has No Passion

S6E5. To Parent Or Not To Parent: That Is The Question

S6E4. When You Have No Energy To Do Any Of It

S6E3. How Do You Balance Being a Parent & a Teacher?

S6E2. Love + Collaboration in Learning

S6E1. Celebrating 20 Years of Brave Writers

BONUS: Getting Wild + Free | with Greta Eskridge

BONUS: The Brave Learner: Happy Book Birthday!

S5E12: Routines, Chaos, and Big Goals—Oh My!

S5E11: Breaking Free From Multitasking | with Courtney Moyer

S5E10: Prepping Your Teen for Adulthood | with Myah St. John

S5E9: Awesome Adulting | with Jessica Hammond

S5E8: Cultivating Connection in a Large Family | with Jardel Manalo

S5E7: Finding Balance in High School | with Karen Goldstein

S5E6: Community is Self-Care | with Jennifer Hunter

S5E5: When Learning Isn’t Fun | with Anne Trott

S5E4: Checklist Lovers: Planning From Behind | with Jennifer Vetter

S5E3: What About Technology? | with Lindsay McCarthy

S5E2: Growing a Mind & Cultivating Curiosity | with Christa Gregg

S5E1: Embracing Elements of Home | with Tammy Kim

S4E32: The Same Page | with MacKenzie Koppa

S4E31: Homeschooling High School: Real Talk about Teens, Writing, Wonder, and Weirdness

S4E30: Making Money as a Parent & Homeschooler

S4E29: How to Be Your Child's Partner in Writing

S4E28: 6 Writing Myths Busted!

S4E27: Modern Miss Mason | with Leah Boden

S4E26: Breaking the Cycle of Homeschool Despair: Don’t Let ‘What if...’ Get You Off Track

S4E25: Learning How to Learn | with Barbara Oakley

S4E24: Unschool Undefined (& Other Home Education Philosophies)

S4E23: The Top 10 Things to Have Done by the End of High School

S4E22: Exploring Learning Differences: ADD, ADHD, Dysgraphia, Autism, Dyslexia

S4E21: Are you one big happy family? Homeschool advice for the frazzled!

S4E20: Partnership Home Education: Finding Friends for You

S4E19: Family Dynamics in Homeschool: The Roles Your Kids Play

S4E18: No Silver Bullet: Searching for the Perfect Homeschool Curriculum

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