In this episode I address the reality that often we don’t feel up to the challenges of life much less the challenge of education our kids and the truth we can speak against the lies we find ourselves facing.

In this episode I about my struggles with finding the balance with screen time and the subsequent (at least in part) trouble with me 10 year old and her to cool for school attitude.

In this episode I reflect on an interesting trend I see in homeschool where we pull our kids out of one system only to feed them into another. I explore the purpose of education and the place that formal education has both positively and negatively.

In this episode I explore the dichotomy between protecting our kids and providing the appropriate exposure to the real world.

In this episode I discuss culture and how it is useful in the learning process.

In this episode I discussed how governing agencies often think about education and determine what is important but in doing so run the risk of sacrificing the kids they are presumably educating.

In this episode I discuss both how learning styles can benefit your kids learning and your teaching but also how they can create a framework which can trap you and your kid in the long run if taken to seriously. Finally, I discuss how to walk the line between the two.

In this episode ice for some questions that came to mind when I received news that the governor of California had signed into law a bill which heavily impacts independent study charter schools and what it tells me about how the they see them selves involved in education.

Is everything really relative? In this episode I discuss whether or not it is even possible to believe that everything is relative as well as the nature of tolerance in a world full of screaming people.

In this episode I share a quote from G.K. Chesterton which addresses how our society has changed and apply it to how education. Seemingly, the purpose of assessment no longer has a mark at which we are to aim.