When we think of adventure we may think of big trips and foreign locations but adventure like families comes in many shapes and forms. Learn about the building blocks Ethan and his wife have employed to get to one of their priorities of teaching their kids to adventure. Join Janna and Ethan as they discuss adventure, priorities, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and more!

ABOUT OUR GUEST | Ethan Demme is a well-known name within the homeschool world with DEMME LEARNING. The CEO of Demme Learning Ethan applies his homeschool background and experience with adventure in his everyday life.

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(01:08) Your name is a very common name in the homeschool realm, Demme Learning.

(02:18) It's funny. It's the only world where you go to a homeschool conference and you see a line of kids bring their math books to have their math teacher sign their math books.

(03:54): The hack would be start where you are and plan the next step and do that and then figure it out the next time. What worked one year may not work the next year.

(05:40): The biggest adventure is getting kids. That's the biggest thing. My wife and I were foster parents for the last three years, and then this year we adopted four kids and that's the biggest adventure.

(06:45): I don't know what normal is, I've heard that best said normal is, just a setting on your washing machine, it's not really a thing in real life.

(10:18): But I've often heard teachers tell me, at the end of the day, every kid's homeschooled, so you can have the best school, the best curriculum, the best teachers, but it's what happens at home, the attitude that the parents, the values that the parents give to their kids and the discipline, at least half of the learning, if not more, always takes place at home. At the end of the day, everyone homeschools their kids.

(12:36): Then we move into that next tier, we call it building an experience bank, and a lot of that is you need to have a mental framework for how you engage with the world.

(20:25): For kids sometimes though, the context for them is I picked up a salamander for the first time and that's blowing my mind. That's their mental equivalent of climbing Mount Everest.

(21:23): If they're cold or hungry or thirsty, you're the source of all of their physiological needs, so you're the only safe space that they have right there, so you ramp up your attachment time.

(23:00); We have some mantras that we do, but one of the big things that we have to teach kids is how to identify what's safe and what's unsafe. Then, the difference between that is risk and that's hard

(25:45): I'm a pretty lenient, adventurous parent of, I call it, I'm comfortable up to an ER room visit.

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