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All Episodes

Virtual Kitchen Table — 68 episodes

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Episode 60: How Do Unschoolers Learn to Read? Does Reading Need to Be Explicitly Taught?

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Episode 59: What is Unschooling? Part 3: Myths and Misconceptions, Continued

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Episode 58: What is Unschooling? Part 3: Myths and Misconceptions

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Episode 57: What is Unschooling, Part 2: What Unschooling Looks Like

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What is Unschooling, Part 1: A Framework of Ideas

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Episode 55: Young People Often Do Know What They Don’t Know

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Episode 54: Parents Can’t Teach Their Children Everything and That’s Okay

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Episode 53: The Strength of Stories – Our Own and Our Children’s

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Episode 52: Does Teaching Have a Place in Self-Directed Education or Unschooling?

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Episode 51: Nervous System Health and Self-Compassion, Our Own and Our Children’s

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Episode 50: My Journey to Taking a Kinder Path – In Honour of Hayley

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Episode 49: Resentment – Our Feelings Toward Other Homeschool Parents, our Spouses and Children, and How We Can Move Through Them

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Episode 48: Taking a Kinder Path to the Holiday Season – Planning Together with our Kids

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Episode 47: The Way Children Learn: Living a Life that Supports All Kinds of Learning

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Episode 46: The Imagination we Lack When it Comes to Education: The Kindergarten Years

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Episode 46: High School Diplomas, College Degrees and Future Careers: Is There More Than One Way?

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Episode 45: How to Begin Homeschooling: Getting Into the Swing of Things Whether New to it or Continuing

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Episode 44: Nature Study, Time Outdoors and Taking the Pressure off of Ourselves and our Children

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Episode 43: Financially Accessible Homeschooling – How Do We Offer our Children an Abundant Life?

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Episode #42: What to Do When We Feel Like a Rubbish Parent: 13 Steps to Dealing with Parenting Doubt

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Episode 41: Creative Kids, Creative Parents

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Episode 40: Feel Like a Rubbish Parent? 9 Things to Remember When You Doubt Your Parenting

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Episode 39 - The Places, the People and Coming Home to Ourselves

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Episode 38: More Unschooling Math/s – What Does Learning Mathematics Naturally Look Like

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Episode 37: Nurturing our Well-Being Through Creative Practices

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Episode 36: Unschooling Math – What Does Learning Math/s Naturally Look Like?

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Episode 35: More about the Value of Online Community – Virtual Friendships are Real Friendships

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Episode 34: The Value of Online Community

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Episode 33: Gently Easing into the New Year for Parents and Kids

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Episode 32: Being Intentional about the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families

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Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery – Part 2

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Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery

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Episode 30: The Rich Experience of Unschooling Science

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Episode 29: Practical Ideas for Building and Contributing to Community

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Episode 28: Virtual Kitchen Table: Spot the Learning! How Our Children are Learning More Than We Might Think

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Episode 27: What is Strewing? Peeling Back the Layers of Intention, Connection and Practice

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Episode 26: Fear of Missing Out

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Episode 25: Self-Directed Learning Beyond Academics

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Episode 24: Embracing Midlife with an Unschooling Mindset

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Episode 23: Living Authentically, Confidently and Intentionally – a Conversation About How We Show Up in Our Lives, with Teresa Wiedrick 

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Episode 22: Does Homeschooling our Children Shape our Identity?

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Episode 21: Emotional Labour

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Episode 20: Deschooling Imperfectly – The Beauty of Intention

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Episode 19: Home Ed Labels and Jargon: Sorting Them Through

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Episode 18: What is Unschooling and How Does it Work? 

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Episode 17: Being Intentional about the Holidays - Ideas for Thoughtful Families

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Episode 16: Lists or Not – How Do We and Those We Love Keep Organized?

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Episode 15: Homeschool Community – Finding, Sustaining and How it Evolves

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Episode 14: Kids and Screens, Pondering Digital Tech From a Few Angles – Part Two

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Episode #14: Kids and Screens, Pondering Digital Tech From a Few Angles- Part One

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Episode #13: Socialization and Homeschooling, Exploring it from Different Angles: Part Two

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Episode #13: Socialization and Homeschooling: Exploring it from Different Angles – Part One

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Episode #12: Perspectives on Self-care – For Our Children, For Ourselves

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Episode #11: How Much Novelty Do Our Kids Need? (Maybe)

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Episode #10: Home Ed on the Move – Exploring a Wandering Lifestyle with Alice Griffin

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Episode #9: Deschooling Through the Lens of The Unschool Challenge - Part Two

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Episode #9: Deschooling Through the Lens of The Unschool Challenge - Part One

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Episode #8: Do We Deserve Joy? Unpacking Perspectives of Joy in Home Education

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Episode #7: Beginning Unschooling During a Pandemic: Part Two

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Episode #7: Beginning Unschooling During a Pandemic: Part One

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Episode #6: The State of Flow in Learning

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Episode #5: Kindness and Unconditional Love – What do they have to do with Unschooling? Part 2

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Episode #5: Kindness and Unconditional Love – What do they have to do with Unschooling? Part 1

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Episode #4: Home Education During Transition and Difficult Times

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Episode #3: Choice in Education – Living and Learning in Community

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Episode #2: Unschooling A-ha Moments

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Episode #1: What do our Unschooling Days Look Like? Part 2

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Episode #1: What Do Our Unschooling Days Look Like Part 1