The Right Side Of Normal and Honouring Our Individual Learners Have you ever met someone at a time in your life and you wish your paths had crossed at an earlier time? You say to them, "I wish you were here to share this with me when".... Well, that's Cindy Gaddis to me. Actually, it's more like- "why are we just meeting each other now ???" I need more of you in my life. Now that I do have Cindy in my life, I am sharing more of her knowledge and experience with you. Because I know you need it to...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 137
Math- How We Learn Kohila Sivas is the creator of the revolutionary MathCodes Method™ a unique system designed to recover learning loss in math. Kohila blended the math hacks she discovered to demystify math and merged them with a coaching methodology that can transform any struggling student. She also created the Meta-Learning DeStress Method™, a method grounded in brain science and neurolinguistics. This method helps the stressed-out learners to destress themselves by talking to their brains a...
Aug 17, 2022•59 min•Season 6Ep. 136
Literacy- Games and Storytelling Michael Low is a writing teacher and curriculum developer with over two decades of experience. He's also a tabletop game designer who designs and runs story-telling games for kids from 7-13 that use the inspirational, collaborative nature of role-playing to get kids writing page after page for the sheer joy of it. You can find his writing classes ( homeschool accredited ) at LuckOfLegends.com , and his print to play at home monthly games and podcast at StoriesRPG...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 135
It's Called Unschooling I don’t like labels. I feel that as learners outside of the institution of school we don’t have to rush putting ourselves into a new box or label. Or that our learning life (unschooling life) is how we choose to define it. But as a friend recently shared with me (as we had a very interesting conversation about unschooling, control, trust and partnership), that having parameters around a word (or label) can be helpful. And I think that when it comes to unschooling, the wat...
Aug 08, 2022•23 min•Season 6Ep. 134
Literacy and Digital Tech Josh Davidson was one of the first students in the United Kingdom to complete an MA in Digital Art. In every professional role he has had, he has tried to retain his creativity and enthusiasm for new approaches and ideas. It is this willingness to experiment in his work that led to him being recognised with several industry awards. He is the creator and Managing Director of Night Zookeeper; a magical, inspirational brand where children discover and create their own imag...
Jul 26, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 133
Untigering, Unschooling & Deconstructing Success Iris Chen is an author, unschooling mom, deconstructing tiger parent, and founder of the Untigering movement. She joins me on this episode to talk about their unschooling journey, Tiger Moms, Untigering, and Deconstructing Success and Expectations. We Explored... "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it." Maya Angelou Iris describes herself as a deconstructing, recovering Tiger Parent. The process of Untigering ...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 132
7 Steps To Begin Homeschooling Thinking about homeschooling? Or are you ready for a homeschool refresh? Here are 7 steps to help you begin homeschooling. 1. Get clear on your WHY. What are your deeper reasons for homeschooling? How is this connected to your family's core values and purpose? When we are clear on our reasons to homeschool and opt out of the main system, the decisions we make in the future will be in integrity with our family and our children. (Check out my episode: https://imhomes...
Jul 07, 2022•41 min•Season 6Ep. 131
Defining Success As A Homeschooler & Unschooler Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids is a platform to share the stories of families living their own unique learning life. This learning life more often than not does not resemble the school classroom. Our community is a place to hear and share these stories and engage in a deeper discussion around the many layers that make up this learning journey. Deschooling. Childhood. Play. Learning. Parenting. Relationships. In this Episode This episode is a...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 130
Making Learning Meaningful Did you know that the best learning environment is the one where we feel safe? The relationship has to be more important in education than the content. Monica Cochran and I explore this idea and all about making learning meaningful. Monica is passionate about nurturing the love of learning and has vast experience helping learners of all ages enjoy learning. She has been active in alternative education since 1978, home-educated two of her children, and worked with other...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 129
Declutter Your Homeschool "We all have a clutter story. Physical Clutter Emotional Clutter Relationship Clutter Time Clutter Digital Clutter We all have some form of clutter in our lives. Because as life happens, we take things in, we build stories and relationships with these items and then there comes a time when it runs its course and we are moving to a new faze in life...and so we have to learn how to let things go. Sometimes that's difficult." Jaycel Murphy This episode was originally recor...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 128
Skills Homeschoolers Need For The Future Do you think that the way to gain the skills you need for the future is only by attending College or University? And what if you don't attend? What opportunities will you have? What kind of jobs can my kids get if they homeschool or unschool? How can I help them prepare for the world and every changing future? What if University or College is not the option that my children want to pursue? What other choices do they have without traditional school experie...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 6Ep. 127
Educators Turned Unschoolers Do you like the idea of homeschooling but have a few doubts? Not sure if you are up to the task? Feeling under-qualified? Or maybe you are hoping that a progressive education will equate to the same thing. Now if only you can find the right school...... My episode guest, has many years of experience working in progressive education. Lesley Jones-Sessler is an educator and a former school administrator now turned unschooler. You can find her on her blog, Watch Monkey ...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 126
Natural Learning Resources If you are new to homeschooling, are thinking about homeschooling or need some fresh ideas, then this episode is for you! In this episode I'm sharing natural learning resources and ideas that we can use in our home education journey. This applies to all forms of Homeschooling and Unschooling. This episode is for the families that are looking to try something of the school box of learning. What I share in this episode is not expensive curriculum. There is no curriculum ...
Apr 28, 2022•56 min•Season 6Ep. 125
Homeschool, Adversity and Education with Dr. Carline Crevecoeur Dr. Carline Crevecoeur is a Haitian American board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, a wife, and a mother of five adult children. She was raised in NY and attended St. John’s University as an undergraduate, earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She did her medical school and residency training at SUNY Downstate. After several years of medical service in New York and Pennsylvania, Carline gave up her career to raise and ho...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 124
Julie Bogart is a mother to 5 adult children that she homeschooled full time for 17 years. She is a writer and owner of Brave Writer , a company she started in January of 2000 with the hope to be able to raise children who see writing as a tool of self expression, not merely a subject to pass to get into college. Julie joined me in my Club, Honey! I'm Homeschooling to talk about her book, Raising Critical Thinkers . Raising Critical Thinkers This conversation was engaging, passionate and timely....
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 123
Resilience This special recorded interview is from the March 2022 How To Be An Awesome Homeschooler Summit. The summit theme was the 3 R's of learning which for us is not the traditional reading, wRiting, aRithmetic. The 3 R's are; Reclaim, Resist, Resilience. Leah McDermott, founder of Your Natural Learner was our keynote speakers to the theme of Resilience. Resilience for homeschool parents as well as our children. Leah joined me to close out the day with this special interview. Leah McDermott...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 122
Supporting Passions and Unschooling to Adulthood The Hunter family began their unschooling journey over 9 years ago. Tira Hunter says that "the benefits of unschooling put her daughter on a path to have a career in art and the freedom to pursue her passions on her own terms." Zoi Hunter is now 19 years old and a full-time commissioned artist. Zoi and her mother, Tira joined me on this episode to talk about their path to unschooling. They also share what they were able to reclaim along the way. S...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 6Ep. 121
Supporting Passions & Unschooling In The Teen Years In unschooling, children learn through everyday life experiences. That is the path that our family has followed since we decided to Worldschool, when our oldest was halfway through grade 1. We made a choice to try our best to support our children in following their interests and passions. What that looked like many years later was our son, at age 14, leaving home to live and work in the Canadian wilderness for a wildlife outfitters. He work...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 120
Reclaim. Resist. Resilience. Homeschooling shifts and changes with the season, doesn't it? Our homeschool seasons may follow a weather pattern, but more often than not, they follow development, physical cycles and the impact of our life experiences. In this episode Kelly Edwards and I talk about this newest season of homeschool that we face. Our kids are getting older, the world around us is shifting and our needs have become clearer. What we need is our 3 R's- Reclaim, Resists and Resilience. T...
Feb 15, 2022•36 min•Season 6Ep. 119
Ekanem Ebinne is a musical parenting coach with 15 years of experience as a kids and family music programmer, in a wide range of musical styles. She is trained in developmental musical psychology and certified to teach music for infants and young children by the Gordon Institute for Music Learning. Ekanem has worked with kids and adults from over 15 countries. Music has always been about connecting with other people "Music has always been about connecting with other people....but right now music...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 118
Conscious Parenting & Deschooling Re-examining how we live, learn and parent. Welcome to episode 116. This episode is a recording of my December Clubhouse room with Tira Hunter, Erika Kesliman and Missy Willis. Our theme ~ Conscious Parenting and Deschooling goes deeper into our journey of learning and self refelction. Tira Hunter is an unschooling mom to 18 year old Zoi. Tira decided to homeschool Zoi part way through elementary school and after trying to replicate school at home with miser...
Jan 22, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 6Ep. 117
Deschooling Money & Minimalism Rachel Rainbolt joins me on the podcast for episode 116, Deschooling, Money & Minimalism. This season we are moving further into the Deschooling process; what it means, why it is important, the broader impacts it has in our life and how it can positively impact our learning journey. (That's right. I said how it can positively impact our learning journey) Rachel Rainbolt, founder of Sage Family , is a gentle parenting, natural homeschooling, and simple livin...
Jan 12, 2022•58 min•Season 6Ep. 116
Season 6- Deschooling and Growing Without School Welcome to a new season of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. Season 6. If you are new to the podcast, let me introduce myself. My name is Robyn Robertson and I am the creator and host of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. I am a home educating mom with hopes, dreams, failures and doubts. Just like you. In this episode I share a little story about our family, how we found our way to homeschooling and to creating this podcast. I also share what I c...
Jan 07, 2022•30 min•Season 6Ep. 115
Veteran Unschooling Moms Q&A Are you new to unschooling? Does it sound like a beautiful concept, to support your children in their natural, non-rushed learning process? But yet, are you still having a hard time wrapping your head around it? What about the unschooled teens? What happens to the families that have unschooled all of their lives? Or for a major portion of their young lives into adulthood? How do they turn out? This episode features 5 veteran unschooling moms that I invited to my ...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 5Ep. 114
Building Literacy At Home This is episode 113 and I am excited to share this Clubhouse discussion on building literacy at home. In this special episode I invited three moms that share my passion for learning in the natural world. All three of my co-hosts are former school educators and two of the three are now homeschooling parents. Lesley Jones Sessler is a progressive educator, blogger at WatchMonkeyMama and school principal turned unschooler. Elsa E. Jones is a professional development consul...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 5Ep. 113
Creating A Culturally Rich Home Learning Environment Amber O’Neal Johnston is a writer, speaker, and Worldschooling Charlotte Mason mama who blends living books with life-giving books and a culturally-rich environment for her four children and others seeking to do the same. She recommends we offer children opportunities to see themselves and others reflected in their lessons and especially throughout their books, and she’s known for sharing literary “mirrors and windows” on HeritageMom.com and @...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 112
Homeschooling~Getting Started Part 2:Clubhouse Edition Are you just getting started in homeschooling? Or are you a homeschooler that has hit a bump in the road and needs a little more encouragement? This episode is for you then. Our September Theme in the Honey! I'm Homeschooling club on Clubhouse was; Homeschooling- Getting Started. I recorded two of our Clubhouse conversations from that month and this episode is Part 2. We welcomed many new homeschoolers this year and we want to make sure that...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 111
Food, Parenting and Unschooling FOOD. What does that word bring up for you? Does it make you think of work, hurt or frustration? Or does it conjure up feelings of joy, positivity and empowerment? It's interesting how our ideas, thoughts and even judgements around food are similar to those we hold around learning. For some of us, food can certainly play a large part in our parenting framework. Deena Barselah joined me on this episode to talk about our expectations and ideas around food. We went d...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 110
Alternatives to College~Praxis Is University or College the only option? I know University is what we push, or aspire our kids to attend. We try our best to use their childhood to prepare them it. Not to prepare them for adulthood, but for college. I even notice at times that people measure the success of homeschooling or unschooling on...college. Were they able to get in, did they attend and if they did, where did they go? How did they do? There seems to be the perception that "something must b...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 109
Did you know that only 40% of College Students graduate in 4 years? 60% graduate in 6 years. 60% change majors at least 3 times. In the US, the average cost of an instate public college is over $27000/year. A private college is $55,000/year. Extending time in college can be a costly choice. That is why Beth and Greg Langston feel that empowering students to master their self discovery is the best way to prepare them for college and the world beyond. By helping students to discover and define the...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 108
