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Virtual Kitchen Table
by Ever Learning
We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We’ll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you’ll pull a chair up to the table and join us.
Episodes
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What is Unschooling, Part 1: A Framework of Ideas
What is Unschooling, Part 1: A Framework of Ideas Do you ever wonder what unschooling is really about? Or maybe you have a sense of it yourself but wonder how to describe it if asked? This ended up being a very full and nuanced conversation based on the first part of Hayley’s blog post […]
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Young People Often Do Know What They Don’t Know
Episode 55: Young People Often Do Know What They Don’t Know We Discuss: How when kids have the time and space to self-direct their learning, they develop good skills and trust their intuition The mass influx of courses for parents aimed at managing children and problems rather than imagining...
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Parents Can’t Teach Their Children Everything and That’s Okay
Episode 54: Parents Can’t Teach Their Children Everything and That’s Okay This isn’t a criticism of the abilities of home educating parents, but instead reassurance for all parents that there is no need to take all of the things on. Children being taught everything ahead of time isn’t how deep…
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The Strength of Stories – Our Own and Our Children’s
Episode 53: The Strength of Stories – Our Own and Our Children’s We happily welcomed Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown and Erika Ellis from www.livingjoyfully.ca to discuss the topic of Stories. Pam, Anna and Erika have spoken in depth about the nuances and choices within the stories we tell both…
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Does Teaching Have a Place in Self-Directed Education or Unschooling?
Episode 52: Does Teaching Have a Place in Self-Directed Education or Unschooling? We read a Substack article by Esther Jones, Unschooling and the Magic of Teaching and were inspired to peel back the role that teaching might play within self-directed learning and a number of aspects that are...
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Nervous System Health and Self-Compassion, Our Own and Our Children’s
Episode 51: Nervous System Health and Self-Compassion, Our Own and Our Children’s It was really an honour to speak with Linsey Briggs of @unschoolingstanley about a topic she shares so generously about. Her insights were both beautiful and practical. It’s always amazing to see the different…
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My Journey to Taking a Kinder Path – In Honour of Hayley
Episode 50: My Journey to Taking a Kinder Path – In Honour of Hayley Oof. This is hard. This episode is one in which we give the sad news that our wonderful Hayley has passed on. We also attempt to honour her as best we can by discussing her post, My Journey to Taking […]
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Resentment – Our Feelings Toward Other Homeschool Parents, our Spouses and Children, and How We Can Move Through Them
Episode 49: Resentment – Our Feelings Toward Other Homeschool Parents, our Spouses and Children, and How We Can Move Through Them We discuss the topic of ‘Resentment’ which initially sounded a bit unpleasant, but there was real peace and clarity in being honest about our very human experiences of...
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Taking a Kinder Path to the Holiday Season – Planning Together with our Kids
Episode 48: Taking a Kinder Path to the Holiday Season – Planning Together with our Kids Based on a core section of Hayley’s blog post, Taking a Kinder Path to the Festivities: For You, Your Children and the Planet, we discuss kind and collaborative approaches we can take to the holiday season…
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The Way Children Learn: Living a Life that Supports All Kinds of Learning
Episode 47: The Way Children Learn: Living a Life that Supports All Kinds of Learning Anne fromEclectic Kids, Bird Bound and @obytheby and April Scully from Modern Homeschoolers join for a conversation about the many faces of whole life learning. The conversation is as vibrant, messy, wonderful…
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The Imagination we Lack When it Comes to Education: The Kindergarten Years
Episode 46: The Imagination we Lack When it Comes to Education: The Kindergarten Years We Discuss: Kindergarten in the past in comparison to now (each sharing memories of our own start of school) Sharing stories of our child’s start to the school years The awareness of making a mistake being...
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High School Diplomas, College Degrees and Future Careers: Is There More Than One Way?
High School Diplomas, College Degrees and Future Careers: Is There More Than One Way? We say “yes” there is! Missy Willis from Let ‘em Go Barefoot and I connected this summer to have a conversation based on one of Missy’s Substack essays, Make the High School Diploma Mean Something Again. In this...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We’ll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you’ll pull a chair up to the table and join us.
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Ever Learning
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We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes...
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