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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.
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).
Let’s discuss the difference between fighting for something and fighting about it.
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.
Let’s discuss how to balance the temptation to keep homeschooling rigorous enough with getting our children into a state of “relaxed alertness.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, ...
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?
I respond to Harvard Magazine’s article, “The Risks of Homeschooling.”
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.
We talk about finding like-minded groups of homeschoolers, the issues that can arise within them, and the merits of wide and narrow tents.
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?”
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?”
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 ...
How do you balance your roles as a parent and a teacher?
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 ...
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!
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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! ...
We talk to Leah Boden about how we can all bring Charlotte Mason to the 21st century in our own homes.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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