Episode 40: Feel Like a Rubbish Parent? 9 Things to Remember When You Doubt Your Parenting   “Do you feel like a rubbish parent? Scared of letting your children down? Convinced you’re not good enough …?” We dug into Hayley’s blog post of the same name and discussed those moments or maybe seasons when we […]

Episode 39: Home – The Places, the People and Coming Home to Ourselves   We were joined by Bex Tobin Fine, author of the picture book You Are Home and thoroughly enjoyed a conversation with her about the many aspects of home. We  tapped into how we define home, where we feel at home, considerations […]

Episode 38: More Unschooling Math/s  – What Does Learning Mathematics Naturally Look Like    Episode 38: What a delight to have Sue Elvis from Stories of an Unschooling Family and April from Modern Homeschoolers join again to talk about mathematics and the various and interesting ways that skills and knowledge are developed. This is a […]

Episode 37: Nurturing our Well-Being Through Creative Practices   It was so, so interesting to meet with Cyrielle from Unschooling and Thriving to talk about the way creative practices support our well-being. We explored various ideas and understandings of creativity and discussed what it can look like in our own lives as well as in […]

Episode 36: Unschooling Math – What Does Learning Math/s Naturally Look Like?   What a delight to have Sue Elvis from Stories of an Unschooling Family and April from Modern Homeschoolers join to talk about mathematics and the various and interesting ways that skills and knowledge are developed. We cover a lot – this might […]

Episode 35: More about the Value of Online Community – Virtual Friendships are Real Friendships    *Virtual Kitchen Table is now an online community as well as a podcast. 😊 Check the link above and listen here for our thoughts.  In this conversation, Anne from @obytheby and Eclectic Kids and Kendel from @spark.to.flame.homelearning, join in […]

Episode 34: The Value of Online Community The Virtual Kitchen Table now includes a COMMUNITY as well as a podcast. 😃 We’d love for you to read on …  Some time ago Hayley had the idea of discussing online community as an episode topic and at first we wondered if it might be part of […]

Episode 33: Gently Easing into the New Year for Parents and Kids    Following our Episode 32, Being Intentional for the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families, we continue the theme of deepening our understanding of what works for us, this time as a new year begins. We discuss our thoughts about resolutions […]

Episode 32: Being Intentional about the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families   We return this season to the topic of Being Intentional about the Holidays and thinking about what will best fit our own individual crew, including ourselves. Keeping in mind our own rhythms and preferences alongside those of our family members, […]

Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery – Part Two   We returned to finish our conversation about Hayley’s blog post of the same name as this episode. We recommend listening to Part One first as it will give context to the conversation, but of course if jumping in here suits you, there is still […]