This podcast shines a light on this beautiful no-school life choice and is here to encourage you on your home ed journey. So whether you’re new to home educatin...
8 - Intentional home education and motherhood - Part One - In conversation with Lucy @the_unschooling_way
In this episode I'm joined by the lovely Lucy @the_unschooling_way on Instagram. We enjoy a nourishing conversation sharing some of our experience around deciding to home educate, how we carve out all-important one-to-one time with each of our children, and how the five love languages can really help us to better understand and support our children.I loved chatting with Lucy who is calm, kind and intentional. We talk about how deschooling is more for us parents than for our children and how this life choice inevitably leads us down a constant learning journey for ourselves as mothers and women. There is much inner-work undertaken to trust this life choice and decondition ourselves when it comes to education and parenting.I really hope you'll enjoy this open and honest chat between two very aligned mothers who simply want the very best for our children and know that self awareness is one of the biggest keys to unlock this for us all.
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7. Home Educating Wildlings - Society's Obsession with Age
This episode is all about society’s obsession with age. How children are segregated by their age and how we have so many unnatural expectations around age. The pressure we feel as parents around due dates, baby milestones and our childrens development. Our age determines so much more than our developmental milestones and academic achievements. Sadly it can have negative implications on our mental health.
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6. Home Educating Wildlings - Choosing to Home Educate in a Fear-based Culture
This episode is all about how as a society we are governed by fear, often without even noticing it. The journey of motherhood is riddled with fear and coercion. School is the entry point for this life-long conditioning of fear - choosing to home educate is about deconditioning ourselves from a childhood and beyond of fear and control. When we understand that our choices do not need to be ruled by fear we can finally start living a life of our choosing. But it takes a whole heap of deschooling and understanding. It can be equally, freeing to understand that any negative opinions of your choice to home educate is purely coming from a place of fear and misinformation.“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so we may fear less.” Marie Curie. 🌱
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5. Home Educating Wildlings - Why you're more than enough
On episode 5 of Home Educating Wildlings podcast I tackle a big home-ed myth – whether you’re qualified or ‘clever’ enough to educate your children. I talk about how we learn and why school is not the way for us. I am my children's partner, their mentor and their mother. We do not ‘teach’ our children, we live alongside them and help them reach opportunities to further grow their passions.I don’t need to know about teaching because I know my children. No teacher in a classroom of 30 kids is ever going to know my kids like I do. Its incomparable. This is about the fact that I have the time, the love, the connection, the deep understanding of my children as unique beings. I want them to thrive as people – I want them to know how to look after their mental and physical health, to understand and celebrate themselves, to focus on their passions ahead of curriculum and simply enjoy life.So do you need to have a teaching degree to give your kids a full and happy life rich in exposure, experiences and connection? Absolutely not! Do you have your children's best interests at heart? Absolutely YES!Put beautifully by Ghandi - “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
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4. Home Educating Wildlings - Learning Naturally
In episode 4 I explain what natural learning looks like to us with some simple examples of how our children learn the unschooling, self-directed way. The wonderful thing about home educating is our children can focus on meaningful interests and learn in their own unique learning style."We are raising independent, self-directed learners whose opinions and ideas are valued and encouraged. I want my boys to have choice and freedom with their learning and play. I want them to feel empowered to take control of their own education – with me right by their side to help support them. It is not lazy parenting, it is intentional. I am very much a proactive partner in their life. But I do not dictate or coerce, instead I journey with them. We collaborate and we enable growth in their interests."Follow me over on Instagram @kiki_and_the_wildlings and hlpe me grow our community!
This podcast shines a light on this beautiful no-school life choice and is here to encourage you on your home ed journey. So whether you’re new to home educating, thinking about it or you’re already forging your own unschooling path this podcast is for you.
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