35: Popularity, Learning to Read and Shakespeare

I haven't been checking the stats for this podcast so I don't know if anyone is still listening. Does it matter if I'm talking to myself? In this week's podcast, I talk about blogging, podcasting and popularity.

34: Learning from My Daughter and Other Unschool Stories

This week's episode is a bits and pieces podcast. I tell some stories about what's been happening in our family, ponder some thoughts and share a few resources. More specifically, I discuss:

• something exciting that happened last Friday
• whether or not we can prepare our children for an unknown future
• why we are glad we have an active dog
• how writing about Jane Fonda led to a new passion for Sophie.
• the importance of encouragement and sharing children’s passions
• how I discovered some muscles I haven’t used in a long time
• how unschooling children persevere even when no one is pushing them
• novel writing
• how children’s knowledge can soon exceed a parent’s and how they can end up teaching us
• how younger children can learn from older siblings
• some of the DVDs and videos we’ve been watching
• and some of the things I’ve been working on

33: Starting Unschooling

In this week’s podcast, I discuss the topic of starting unschooling.

• Is moving to unschooling a big step for children?
• How can we encourage children to get excited about their own learning?
• What if a child just wants to sit in front of the television or computer?
• Do adults and children have different ideas about what kind of learning is valuable?
• And what about trust?