Just why should you consider unschooling and why it may be for you.
The potential answer to those that are right on the fence on unschooling or homeschooling.
How modern schools don’t prepare kids for self-governing, but on how to be governed.
Just why should you consider unschooling and why it may be for you.
The potential answer to those that are right on the fence on unschooling or homeschooling.
How modern schools don’t prepare kids for self-governing, but on how to be governed.
The update on the Gibson family and some big changes that are coming.
How these changes are going to effect the Family Podcast Network.
Sorry, I’ve been sick this week. Bleh!
Join us as we discuss:
The fundamental tenants of unschooling.
If you’ve never heard of unschooling, or wanted more information to just what is unschooling, today is your show.
We also answer the equally detrimental question of what unschooling ISN’T.
Part 1 of an upcoming series on Homeschool and Unschooling.
How I’d RATHER put my kids in public school, but how the failures of the system are just too great.
What kids need in education to make homeschooling and unschooling successful.
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How getting your kids to be what you want them to be doesn’t involve teaching, lecturing, or even reason.
The art of connection, what it is, and how we can build it if we’ve sucked it up this far.
Join us as we discuss your Media Sucks Monday articles on:
10 non-traditional compliments that every kiddo should be hearing on a regular basis.
How one school has banned the grade “Zero” from their schools.
What kids think about spanking, and how insightful they just might be.
SHOW NOTES
10 Compliments Your Kids Need to Hear
Schools are Wimps When It Comes to Giving Kids Failing Grades
How disappointment is very valuable to kids, and how we suck it up most of the time.
How to allow disappointment to shape our kids into strong people.
Why we have allowed disappointment to get circumvented with kids, and how it hurts them overall.
Today on Media Sucks Monday, an article calling into questions whether parents can adequately educate their children better than Public Schools.
The rising numbers of kids getting hurt while in shopping carts, and my response to parents and the ideas of tighter controls.
Gender roles in kids toys. Should girls have homemaking/shopping legos in pink?
SHOW NOTES
Are Parents Who Homeschool Qualified to Teach Their Kid
Despite Warnings, About 24,000 Kids are Hurt Annually in Shopping Cart Accidents
Join us as we discuss:
How vital forgiveness is, even outside of any spiritual bent.
The concept of grace and unmerited favor, and why our kids need us to see them that way.
How forgiving kids isn’t about passivity, but about understanding kids better and how to forgive.
SHOW NOTES
Expected Grace – article referenced on giving grace and forgiveness to kids.
Join us as we discuss:
A great article from, of all places, Forbes Magazine on 7 major screw ups parents tend to make.
How the honest evaluation of ourselves, yes, including our screw ups, is the answer to those kids we want to see grow up.
I’m putting a third point because a literature teacher years ago must have told me I’m supposed to.
SHOW NOTES
7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children from Growing Into Leaders