a Perspective Shift on the Art and Science of an Education

There’s an art and science in medicine, I’ve been told. If one could type symptoms into the Google bar and spit out a diagnosis, would medical doctors be required? There’s a certain experience and constant exposure that surrounds the assessment and diagnoses in medicine that can’t be captured in the Google bar. Let’s get a…

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A Homeschool Dad’s Thoughts on How to Homeschool

A homeschool dad’s thoughts: allow your kids to have broad parameters. Then listen to them, listen some more, and listen a little longer.

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How Homeschooling Requires us to Face our Shortcomings

Rowan Atkinson is a second-generation homeschooler and is a recently graduated homeschool mama after homeschooling her four children for two decades. She is a historical fiction reader, British period drama watcher, soccer player, Sunday school teacher, author, and businesswoman.    Rowan Atkinson is the author of Enough Already: Real Help for Homeschool Freakout Burnout and…

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How to Encourage Independence in your Homeschool

Self-directed learning, a new term evolving from the unschool movement, enables our children to independently learn. In my early homeschool years, I lapped up all things John Holt and John Taylor Gatto. These unschool founders radically shifted my homeschool from a top-down approach. I radically unschooled for six solid months and learned that children learn,…

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How to Simplify your Homeschool (Because Complexity ain’t Fun)!

Can you simplify your homeschool life? Or maybe I should ask: WHY make homeschool simple? Cause you got no time for complicated. And complexity ain’t fun. So how to simplify your homeschool because complexity ain’t fun? First of all, we can’t do all the things, so we’ll have to simplify our homeschools. So you have…

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How to Be Conscious in Your Homeschool with Erica Kesilman

Introducing Erica Kesilman: a self-directed homeschool and conscious parent coach who homeschools her three children. So, Erica is a passionate advocate and enthusiast for self-directed education. Let’s chat with Erica Kesilman on how to be conscious in your homeschool. In coaching families, Erica Kesilman uses an integrated approach that includes evidence-based educational psychology practices supported…

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