Unschooling Adventure Podcast

An opportunity to try out possible careers, gain confidence, feel a sense of purpose and meet great people! Teen volunteering has so many benefits, but where to start? In this episode, I discuss our experience with this and how we secured the volunteering gigs my daughter is enjoying now.

Families meeting regularly to share their knowledge and skills and learn together. Creating a homeschool co-operative has been a dream of mine since we started homeschooling. I tried a few different formats and learned a lot along the way. In this episode, I share how our current co-op is going and tips if you are planning to start your own.

You can go your whole homeschooling life without organising any events for your local community, but I enjoy doing it and I think it greatly enriches my kids’ learning experience. In this episode I share how I organise excursions, classes and a co-op in the hope of inspiring others to do the same!

How much screen time do your children get? Do you limit their access to devices? Screen time is often the subject of discussion in homeschooling and parenting circles and opinions vary widely. In this podcast, I share what works for us, at the moment and how I deal with my own feelings about this topic.

To finish off our series discussing how we cover the curriculum in our homeschool, today I am discussing physical education, health and personal development, as well as the Food Tech elective for high school.

As part of our homeschool curriculum, with value LGBTQAI+ history, awareness and advocacy. We just attended the Mardi Gras celebrations in Sydney and had a great time. Is this topic featuring in your homeschool? How do you cover it? In this episode, I share what works for us.

How do your cover Art in your homeschool? We are not a very arty family but we still find lots of ways to cover this area. From pottery and drama classes, to musicals, movie making, surreal art projects and more.

From the multicultural festival in our town to our own multicultural day in the local homeschooling community. In this podcast, I share how I went cover geography in our home as part of a series of episodes covering one subject each time.

Science is one of our strong subjects and we enjoy finding new, fun ways to learn it. In this episode I share how we do it. How do you cover science in your homeschool?

How do you cover maths in your homeschool? This is a subject we often stress about as unschoolers especially as one of my kids has carried maths anxiety from school. Still, with a bit of patience and creativity, we are converting maths well so that both my girls are learning what they need and more importantly, they are enjoying the process!

As today is Australia Day or Invasion Day as it should be called, I thought it’d be fitting to cover History. How do you study history in your homeschool?

How do you tick curriculum boxes as an unschooler? Today I share how we cover English through the kids’ interests and the activities they naturally choose. This is the first episode of a mini series where I share how we cover each subject in our family. I have a primary school aged girl and one in the highschool years so you can get an idea for both levels.

Are you keen to pull your kids out of school and start your unschooling/homeschooling journey but you worry about socialisation? You are not alone but you don’t need to worry! In this episode I share how socialisation works for my kids and how it is different from what school kids get.

Do you think unschooling could suit your family but you are not sure where to start? This episode is for you, as I share 3 quick tips that helped me get started!

There are a few unexpected lessons we learned during our unschooling journey. Time management, especially for my 14 year old, has been one of them. Here I share how we manage our time and how that has evolved since we started.

How do children learn if you don’t follow a curriculum? And how will they ever do hard things if you don’t force them? These are some common questions we get as unschoolers. In this episode I provide a practical life example to give some insight into what learning is like for us and hopefully to answer these questions.

Welcome to episode 1. In this episode, I tell you a little bit about our family and how we got started as well as what unschooling means for us.