When you first step away from the school system, you leave behind all their built-in ways of measuring progress - the grades, the tests, the reading levels...In this week's mini-episode, I'm sharing the simple daily practice we use to record, track, and review progress in our family.
"I'm having a hard time striking the right balance between following my child's lead, and making sure they're also doing hard things and putting in effort."
You hear a lot about what you’ll need when you first choose to live life without school. The resources, curriculum options, books you should read, the local groups to join. But there's something else that matters more than any of that.
I've been thinking a lot about this line in my post from the other day: "We've created a world where a child's greatest achievement is being low maintenance."
With all the talk about following children's interests and nurturing their passions early, this is a common worry. But understanding what's really happening during this stage of childhood will completely change how you see your child's play.
There will be times, as a homeschooling parent, when you feel you’re not enough. If this is you, I want to remind you of something.
In this episode I’m talking more about something this podcast was literally born from: the idea of children falling behind where they should be.
In this session we look at how you can be your child's coach, rather than their teacher. I believe this is the best way to help your children really find themselves, and to flourish as independent learners.
I believe we have the opportunity to provide our children with the right conditions to become the truest, best versions of who they were born to be. But that will only happen if we’re super intentional in setting up an environment which creates that outcome.
This is a critical process that all home educators must go through, if they want to be free to make the most of the experience, and to give their children the best shot at growing up to be autonomous, independent individuals.
Unschooled 12 year old pianist plays the Home Alone theme.
