The fear of "falling behind" wasn’t built on child development - it was built on logistics and systems. In this episode, we dismantle where that fear came from, how it still shapes us today, and what real growth actually looks like.
In this episode, I’m unpacking one of the biggest questions home educating families face: how do I know this whole thing is actually working?
For a lot of my parenting life, I assumed that if I focused on my kids' academics they’d be ready for adulthood when the time came. But the deeper I’ve gone into the research, the more I’ve realised how flawed that assumption is. Here’s what I wish someone had told me years ago.
Today, we’re going to tackle this fear head-on, through hearing directly from the only people who can truly answer the resentment question: grown homeschoolers and unschoolers themselves.
I was sent an email recently that I want to talk about here. It was based around the kinds of questions this parent gets from her mother: "How will your child cope in life if they aren't made to do things they don't want? If...
Here I dismantle the common view of socialisation using a mixture of neuroscience and research. It will completely change how you see healthy social development, and how you feel about and respond to that question - especially when it’s you, asking it of yourself, in those times of doubt.
It's the question almost every home educating parent has faced (and probably will, again and again). From well-meaning family members, from total strangers, and - often - from our own voice inside our heads. It hits right where our schooling experiences have conditioned us to be most vulnerable...
I want to talk about that quiet, nagging voice that so often shows up in the quiet moments. When you're lying in bed at night thinking. When you see posts about other families doing seemingly amazing educational things. When someone asks how you'll handle high school...
I'm exploring the science of how writing actually develops in the brain (it's fascinating), looking at how different cultures approach it (with some surprising results), and walking you through what to watch for as your child's writing development unfolds naturally.
"He won't even look at anything I share. Won't listen to my concerns. Just shuts down the conversation completely." How do partners who see such different paths forward for their children find their way to the same page?
