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Episode 46: The Imagination we Lack When  it Comes to Education: The Kindergarten Years   We Discuss:   Kindergarten in the past in comparison to now (each sharing memories of our own start of school) Sharing stories of our child’s start to the school years  The awareness of making a mistake being unacceptable and when/how […]

High School Diplomas, College Degrees and Future Careers: Is There More Than One Way?    We say “yes” there is! Missy Willis from Let ‘em Go Barefoot and I connected this summer to have a conversation based on one of Missy’s Substack essays, Make the High School Diploma Mean Something Again. In this conversation, we […]

Episode 45: How to Begin Homeschooling: Getting Into the Swing of Things Whether New to it or Continuing  We talk about beginning the “school year,” either as a new homeschool family or a continuing family from the perspective of both connection and practical ideas. It can be an exciting time of year, but it can […]

Episode 44: Nature Study, Time Outdoors and Taking the Pressure off of Ourselves and our Children    We dive into a deep exploration of different perspectives about nature study and outdoor time and where those things are both similar and different. We discuss what this looks like at different ages, including the teenage years, and […]

Episode 43: Financially Accessible Homeschooling – How Do We Offer our Children an Abundant Life?   Does homeschooling have to cost a lot of money?  We tap into this topic with Anne from @obytheby and Eclectic Kids and come to the conclusion that living richly and abundantly is indeed possible without expensive classes, outings and […]

Episode 42: What to Do When We Feel Like a Rubbish Parent: 13 Steps to Dealing with Parenting Doubt   Sometimes we all feel we’ve missed the mark with our kids and it’s not a great feeling. What might be helpful during those times?  In this conversation, we return to follow up on the discussion […]

Episode 41: Creative Kids, Creative Parents  We came back to chat about creativity and creative practice again with Cyrielle from Unschooling and Thriving, and Kendel from spark.to.flame.homelearning joined in and added her perspective. We shared insights about our children’s creativity and our own, and ways we consider and support them and ourselves, both practically and […]

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 […]