The Wonder & Wild Podcast

If you’ve been feeling that quiet pull toward homeschooling, but every time you think about it properly your stomach flips, I want you to know you’re not alone.

Spending time in the garden is one of the simplest ways to support children’s learning, and often one of the most overlooked.

At the start of every homeschool year, I don’t ask, “What do I need to buy?”. I ask a quieter, more important question: “What will help my children think, regulate, and feel safe to learn?” After years in classrooms and now years at the kitchen table, I’ve learned this: Homeschool doesn’t need more stuff. It needs intentional tools, simple rhythms, and the right support. This is the list I come back to every year.

If life came with a blockbuster trailer, mine would start with a tiny girl living twelve years on all-boys boarding school grounds - basically the ultimate crash course in surviving noise, mischief, and boyhood chaos.