The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week is an audio version of the blog post “Transitioning Out of Trauma” which was written by Kate McConaghy and published here on HomeEdVoices in May 2021. You can find the original post, and it’s links here.

In other news – in case you’d like to support the podcast and blog – we have a Patreon. This allows us to keep the podcast ad free and will mean that we can start paying our interview guests. Joining the Patreon will directly support home educating families here in the UK, including the Kates that run the podcast and blog.

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week I’m chatting with Jay Byrd from @beanlearning. We talk about  what it’s like being a second generation home educator and home education in the UK in the 90’s. Jay tells us about her passion for project based learning and gentle parenting, and we talk about Bean Learning which offers UK based online video groups and classes for home educated children and home educating adults.

Find sessions to try at Bean Learning Drop In Week 31st May – 6th June 2021

Sign up – BeanLearning – Intro to Managing Conflict: Effective Communication for Families on Wednesday 9th June (8pm-9pm GMT) Free

Get in touch with Jay about Project Based Learning Mentoring

BeanLearning Home Ed Chat Group information.

Information about the Art Award system

Project Based Homeschooling by Lori Picket

You can find Jay on instagram @bean.learning, beanlearning.com and on facebook.

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week I’m chatting with Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, home ed parent and author of Changing Our Minds. We talk about how home educated children related to their peers, the long process of deschooling, internal and external motivation, and supporting ADHD and autism in the home educating community.

Find Naomi on twitter @naomicfisher. Find edition information, official blurb and reviews for Changing Our Minds here. Here is a link to a great article by Fisher in Green Parent about Unschooling.

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If you enjoyed the podcast and know someone who might benefit from listening to a Home Education Podcast, please let them know about the Home Ed Voices Podcast. Thank you!

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week is an audio version of the blog post “You Are Smart Enough to Home Educate” which was published here on HomeEdVoices in October 2019. You can find the original post, and it’s links here.

I really appreciate everyone who got in touch to support the previous podcast and ask for more. There will be more of these mini episodes in amongst the interviews and things we have coming up.

In other news – in case you’d like to support the podcast and blog – we have a Patreon. We’re still ironing out how it’s going to work, but it’s going to include a monthly ebook of all the blog posts of ease of reading.*

More news when we’ve finalised everything.

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If you have any questions or can think of someone you would like me to interview on the podcast (maybe you? Yeah, really you!), please get in touch via the comments below.

If you enjoyed the podcast and know someone who might benefit from listening to a Home Education Podcast, please let them know about the Home Ed Voices Podcast. Thank you!

(*because we don’t like the whole affiliate thing because we don’t like shilling for Amazon, and we’d like to keep the podcast and the blog advert free.)

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week is an audio version of the blog post “Don’t Over Plan the Fun Stuff (and What to do Instead)” which was published here on HomeEdVoices in February 2020. You can find the original post, and it’s links here.

If you like this little audio blog posts then I’ll do more of them, especially in this inbetween bit where the pandemic is still making it really hard to do interviews with any sort of regularity.

In other news – in case you’d like to support the podcast and blog – we have a Patreon. We’re still ironing out how it’s going to work, but it’s going to include a monthly ebook of all the blog posts of ease of reading.*

More news when we’ve finalised everything.

Follow HomeEdVoicesPodcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, or join the newsletter.

If you have any questions or can think of someone you would like me to interview on the podcast (maybe you? Yeah, really you!), please get in touch via the comments below.

If you enjoyed the podcast and know someone who might benefit from listening to a Home Education Podcast, please let them know about the Home Ed Voices Podcast. Thank you!

(*because we don’t like the whole affiliate thing because we don’t like shilling for Amazon, and we’d like to keep the podcast and the blog advert free.)

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week I’m chatting with Eloise Rickman from @mightymother_. We talk about her new book Extraordinary Parenting, about writing it during lockdown and about how it is a unique source of comfort and support for parents and home educators during this pandemic.

GIVEAWAY! For an chance to win a copy of the book, go to our instagram @homeedvoicespodcast. (till midday 11/8/2020)

• “Read, read, read some more. If all you did for 3 months was read aloud to your kids from a range of great books, they’d thrive. Audiobooks are your friends too.”

Find Eloise on instagram @mightymother_, and at her Blog (A Beautiful Childhood) at www.fridabemighty.com

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This is episode 28 and this week I’m talking to Lorna from @2devonpixies_home_ed. We talked on the 17th March, as lockdown for the coronavirus was just starting, but before the school’s had closed, so that colours the whole conversation. However we also talk about tuff trays, the pedagogy of ‘give it a go’ and Lorna brings a fantastic book list that will keep you going through these strange days.

• Tuff Trays
• Scratch of World maps
• The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman
• Odd and The Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
• The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
• Twinkl home educators facebook group
• BBC iplayer – Andy’s Wild Workouts
• Youtube – Cosmic Kids
• Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne
• The Waldock Way Magic Treehouse Books Curriculum – Passport to Adventures
• Amazing Machines series by Tony Mitton
• Winnie the Witch series by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul
• Mr Men and Little Miss by Adam Hargreaves and Roger Hargreaves
• Julia Donaldson books
• The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
• Animalium by Jenny Broom and Katie Scott
• The Read-aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie
• The Brave Learner by Julia Bogart
• The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon
• The Call of the Wild and Free by Ainsley Arment
• Messy Maths by Juliet Robinson
• Peggy Kaye books
• Homeschool Adventures by Melissa Calapp
• Sage Homeschooling by Rachel Rainbolt

Find Lorna on instagram @2devonpixies_home_ed, and on her website at 2DevonPixies.

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week we are trying something different and doing a deep dive into what is going on for a home ed family right now, with a Day in the Life interview.*

Kate from this here website was willing to play guinea pig, given that she had already done the standard interview in episode 7 (and 25) of the podcast.

You can read all of Kate’s contributions to the blog here.

(*That said, we’re still doing the standard interviews that are the backbone this podcast. But they are mostly about the why of home education, and it’s nice to get stuck into the how as well, so we’re going a do a mixture of the two, with some special episodes added into the mix for good measure.)

• Books for Keeps
• The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
• Planners and Pantsers
• Neil Gaiman talking about second drafts
• Prodigy Maths
• Maths Seeds
• Outschool – Druidawn
• The Magical Land of Yeld
• Beast Academy
• Kate Snow – Homeschool Maths Help
• Usborne History of Britain
• Mel Chemistry
• Kate’s Review of Mel Chemistry
• Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
• Artistic Pursuits for Art
• Little People Big Dreams books
• Demi biographies
• Beowulf’s Grammar
• Kate’s post about Screentime
• The Story of Science
• Memorize app
• Kate’s review of Memorize

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This blog post does not contain affliate links because we think you should borrow books from your library if you can, or get them second hand or from where ever you personally want to buy books. Not just amazon because it might make us some money. You can read more about our affiliate policy here.

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This is part 2 of the deep dive we are doing on a Day in the Life of Kate (from episode 7 and 25.) You can find part 1 here.

You can read all of Kate’s contributions to the blog here.

• Books for Keeps
• The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
• Planners and Pantsers
• Neil Gaiman talking about second drafts
• Prodigy Maths
• Maths Seeds
• Outschool – Druidawn
• The Magical Land of Yeld
• Beast Academy
• Kate Snow – Homeschool Maths Help
• Usborne History of Britain
• Mel Chemistry
• Kate’s Review of Mel Chemistry
• Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
• Artistic Pursuits for Art
• Little People Big Dreams books
• Demi biographies
• Beowulf’s Grammar
• Kate’s post about Screentime
• The Story of Science
• Memorize app
• Kate’s review of Memorize

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The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here.

This week I’m talking to Daksina who now writes regularly for HomeEdVoices.co.uk (you can find all her articles here including great posts about Got Reluctant Writers? Encourage them with a Family Book!, and how How I Use My Planner for Homeschool Planning – as well as the lion’s share of the Winter Gift Guide 2019.)

We talk about getting our heads around the idea that every education has gaps, and that is ok. We fangirl over the calming influence of Julie Bogart, and we talk all things gameschooling.

• Bravewriter
• Julie Bogart’s podcast – A Bravewriter’s Life in Brief
• A Gracious Place
• SimpleHomeschool.net
• A Day in the Life
• Readaloud Revival
• The Readaloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah Mackenzie
• Gameschooling
• The Green Ember, Ember Falls, Ember Rising, The Black Star of Kingston, and The Last Archer by S D Smith
• Daksina’s Instagram account , planner youtube channel and her articles on HomeEdVoices.

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