Homeschool: Getting Started~Clubhouse Edition If you have been listening to the podcast this last year or following Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids on social media you may have heard that we have a wonderful homeschooling "club" on the Clubhouse app. The Club is called Honey! I'm Homeschooling and we host a room every Saturday at 9am mountain time, Monday's at 11am mountain time and Tuesday's at 4pm mountain time. Each "room" or meet up focuses on a topic related to homeschooling, unschooling,...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 107
Values and Guiding Purpose For many it's the beginning of the new school year! For others you may be half way through that beginning journey. How has it been so far? In this episode I am focusing on why and how you can build your values and guiding purpose. This is an important foundation whether you are a homeschooler, unschooler or even traditional schooler. It is important part of the homeschooling process because defining our values helps to guide our way. Living with purpose means to be liv...
Sep 05, 2021•23 min•Season 5Ep. 106
Welcome to episode 105 with Pilar Bewley of Mainly Montessori. In this episode Pilar took time out to talk about embracing a Montessori mindset in homeschooling. We talked about the Montessori philosophy, how that plays out in the home environment vs the classroom and why she felt homeschooling Montessori supported her family best. Pilar is a former Montessori child, homeschool mentor, and Montessori advocate. In addition to a B.Sc. in Hospitality Management and ample entrepreneurial experience,...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 105
Social Emotional Learning with Dr. Lorea Martínez Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is currently a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals inEmotional Intelligence. Previousl...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 104
Finding Joy, Connection and Freedom Within Structure Kelly Edwards is the creator of the 90-Minute School Day . A lifestyle approach to education. The 90-Minute School Day method connects children with learning in their natural environment: at home with their family. It is designed for pre-K through 6th grade. Kelly is passionate about home education, connecting families through attachment, learning as a lifestyle and helping children (and parents) identify their purpose. Kelly is entering her 7...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 103
Homeschooling and Mindfulness Isabelle Robledo is a 17-year-old kids mindfulness coach and co founder of Making Mindfulness Fun. She is helping kids and teens to be confident and creative using mindfulness. She's been living in an RV for the past six years while traveling the world with her family of seven. She learned mindfulness from a very young age, and believes that now, more than ever, it is important to share what she’s learned with our future generation. You can find her on Instagram @ke...
Jun 29, 2021•56 min•Season 5Ep. 102
From School To Homeschool Demetria Giles has over 15 years of experience in education and is passionate about culturally responsive pedagogy, critical thinking development, and project-based learning. She is the former Director of Curriculum & Instruction at 9th Bridge School, a private early childhood and elementary school located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. She is also an education consultant and the homeschool mom of a 9-year-old son. Demetria and I connected on the Clubhouse app and I...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 101
That's right! This is Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids 100th episode. For the special milestone episode we decided to do an Ask Me Anything where my daughter did the asking and I did the answering. Listeners sent in questions through social media that we answered on the show. What did they ask? What Are Your Homeschool Fears? How Do You Unschool High School? Have You Learned To Respect Your Kids and Listen To Their Boundaries? What Have Your Kids Taught You About The Best Way To Raise Them? Hav...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 100
Sue Patterson is a homeschooling coach and founder of Unschooling Mom2Mom. She helps parents find creative ways to approach learning and reconnect with their children, when their current educational option isn’t working. Sue has been active in the homeschooling community for twenty-five years and is happy to share practical suggestions of how to make unschooling work. Her own three unschooled children are now all young adults with successful careers, degrees and families. Sue offers a variety of...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 99
If we value raising independent thinkers and self directed learners, wouldn't we also want to support financial independence? For those of us that choose this home educating path, we often choose to "opt-out" of not just school. Often our choice to leave the education system causes us to start re-thinking other mainstream ideas as well. One of these mainstream assumptions is our idea and values around money. What are your thoughts and feelings around money? How money is used? What is it's purpos...
May 19, 2021•55 min•Season 5Ep. 98
Growing Up Unschooled Unschooling- "The freedom for anyone, young and old to choose why, what, when, how and from whom to learn things." It is learner directed, learner centred. Unschooling may sound like a nice idea, but are you wondering if it is realistic in practice? Can a young child or teen learn that way? Don't they need the structure of school to get a job or go to University? What is it like growing up unschooled? Liana Francisco~ Growing Up Unschooled My guest on this episode, Liana Fr...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 97
Recently I have been hearing more stories about people in the Bitcoin network becoming interested in unschooling. Or possibly the stories are of unschoolers becoming interested in Bitcoin..... In either case, why the interest? What do Unschooling and Bitcoin have in common? Unschooling and Bitcoin As my family has been learning and diving into the world of Bitcoin over the last few years, I see the link between many of the values that both the Unschooling world and the Bitcoin world hold. I thin...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 96
Karla Marie Williams is a speaker, writer, global child advocate and unschooling mom to 6 kids. Yes, that's right, 6 kids, who are almost all at or in their teen years. Karla Marie is also the President of Be Bold Publishing. I welcomed her on the show to celebrate the release of her new book, Teens Unleashed. Teens Unleashed offers real life, hands on experience and practical tips to help you support your unschooling teens. In this Episode In this episode Karla Marie and I not only discuss her ...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 95
Disruptor [noun] - a person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/disruptor Yes, this month we are talking about disruption. I think it is a fitting theme for this past year, don't you? There is a lot of disruption happening all around us and it is not necessarily bad. Change comes from disruption and change can be good. I have often wondered when we talk about change i...
Mar 24, 2021•58 min•Season 5Ep. 94
Math Codes Kohila Sivas is a parent, teacher, Math Interventionist, and a Holistic Success Coach for students and parents. Over the past 22 years, Kohila has developed a simple proven system called MathCodes and she uses this system to help students rapidly transform their math performance as well as shift their mindset, grow their confidence, and outperform their expectations in all areas of their life. Kohila also works with parents on how to best support their child as a 'Student.' When paren...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 93
This special episode is part 2 of my interview with Yolonda Coles Jones. Yolonda and I wanted to provide additional support and comfort to those families that are feeling caught up in the waves of the moment. This episode is all about using the tools of connection and presence to bring about calm and well-being. We want families to once again start feeling empowered in their own lives. That means being empowered as a parent, person and learning support. Yolonda Coles Jones, also known as “The Br...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 92
Yolonda Coles Jones, also known as "The Bringer of Calm" and the "Teacher of Thrive", is a Healing, Wellness & Empowerment-Centered Coach and Education Consultant who specializes in coming alongside households--families and individuals--as well as teachers and school systems to support them in deepening into conscious connection with themselves and with those around them. From that place she guides and supports in building confidence, developing clarity, realizing calm and implementing strat...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 91
Gina Riley, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist, Clinical Professor, and Program Leader of the Adolescent Special Education Program at CUNY – Hunter College. Dr. Riley has over fifteen years experience working with teens diagnosed with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioural disorders. She is also a seasoned academic, with years of teaching, research, and supervisory experience within the fields of special education, psychology, school psychology, and mental health counseling. In additi...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 90
Monica Robertson is a retired teacher, math educator, grandmother and former homeschool parent. She is also my mother-in-law! I asked Monica to come on the show as a special guest to talk about her experience homeschooling, learning math and the power of looking at the world through a math lens. Math always seems to be a topic that seems to give quite a few parents feelings of angst. I often hear questions like; I am not good at math, so how will I be able to teach it to my kids if I homeschool?...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 5Ep. 89
Judy Arnall is an adult educator, certified in brain and child development, and master of non-punitive parenting and education practices. Judy is the bestselling author of 5 books on non-punitive parenting and unschooling and has unschooled 5 adult children. 3 have graduated university, 1 is presently attending and 1 is a Masters student. Unschooling, Math and STEM careers We are talking about math in homeschooling and unschooling this month, a topic that comes up often in homeschooling and unsc...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 88
Deschooling Deschooling is a process of letting go of the singular beliefs we have attached with learning and kids. Beliefs that learning has to be done in a certain way, within certain times, within a certain kind of environment. Deschooling means possibilities. It’s a time to deconstruct the expectations, concerns, worries, beliefs around school, learning, and education. In This Episode In this episode I talk about what deschooling is and why it is important. I also share ways that we can embr...
Jan 20, 2021•32 min•Season 5Ep. 87
Jenn Sutherland and Beyond School I am joined by Jenn Sutherland, worldschooling mom, entrepreneur and CEO of Beyond School . In addition to homeschooling her own four children, from birth to university entrance while traveling the world, full time, for over a decade, Jenn has a degree in education and over 20 years experience in helping families build world class educations for their children outside the four walls of a classroom. Now the CEO of Beyond School , she's focused on building a schoo...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 86
Homeschooling Your Differently Wired Child "Adapt and let go of the stuff that doesn't bring you joy and bring your kids a love of learning. Switch it to make it fun and make learning the goal , not the product the goal" Divergent thinker? Twice Exceptional? Gifted? Dyslexic? Differently wired kids? Are you homeschooling your differently wired child? Feeling overwhelmed, beaten down and just not sure what to do? This episode is filled with guidance and inspiration from a mom that has been raisin...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 85
Welcome! In this episode I am talking about the Homeschool Journey and addressing questions from listeners. Homeschooling and Unschooling Questions Dealing with homeschool overwhelm? What you can do and why the solution sometimes means doing less, not more. What happens when the homeschool honeymoon is over? The importance of going back to your "WHY" and matching learning with purpose. I share questions and prompts that help you to start exploring your beliefs around learning and why this is imp...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 4Ep. 84
Homeschool With Montessori In this episode I learn about homeschool with the Montessori method. Jeanne Marie talks about how she embraced Montessori and the reasons why it aligns with her heart and beliefs on learning, living and parenting. She offers essential tools to help parents follow our intuition, trust ourselves and trust our children. Parenting Mentor and Montessori Educator Jeanne-Marie Paynel, M.Ed, is a Parenting Mentor and Home Consultant dedicated to helping parents let go of the o...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 83
Homeschooling To The Ivy Leagues Carline Crevecoeur was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1963. When she was five, Carline's parents immigrated to the United States with her and her five siblings, settling down in a two-story house in Brooklyn, New York. Carline attended St. John’s University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1985, majoring in Chemistry. She went on to pursue her dream of becoming an OB/GYN, obtaining a medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School. After an ...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 82
Charlotte Mason with Leah Boden Leah is a long-time student and practitioner of the Charlotte Mason method of education and is passionate about helping parents find their freedom within the philosophy. Leah and her husband Dave have 4 homeschooled children. She writes, speaks and podcasts using the Charlotte Mason philosophy as a springboard into her lessons on childhood, motherhood and education. Leah delights in coaching and leading others in this refreshing way of life. She is a speaker and w...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 81
Homeschool Styles & Methods Exploring different homeschooling methods, starting with Classical Education. If you are a returning listener to this podcast or to this website, you will know I'm and advocate of self-directed learning and unschooling. We began our learning journey in school but we left to travel with our kids. When we began worldschooling we tried to recreate school. As time went on and we dove further into home education, we started to transition into project based learning and...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 80
Look For The Helpers-Village Home Learning Community with Lori Walker Lori Walker is passionate about the idea that learning is a natural process, and is an inherently fun process. It feels good to learn, so why are so many students bored and disengaged? Lori is the founder and Executive Director of Village Home, where learners actually enjoy learning. Village Home is a learning community that is built on the idea that learning is ultimately self-directed, and we, as teachers, are here to encour...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 79
Decentralized, Democratic and Self Directed- The Genius School with Karema Akilah In this episode Karema Akilah and I talk about her journey from public school teacher to unschooling parent of 6, to the creation of The Genius School. Karema is an advocate of children learning in freedom. She brings not only passion to this episode, but she clearly explains the practice of self directed education and the myths that surround it, as well as the the framework of a "school" that is decentralized, dem...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 78
