Alchemising Education - Addicted to the Extraordinary

01/13/24 • 35 min

Faark The Shoulds (& Alchemising Education)

What’s with our preoccupation of being extraordinary?

Where does the addiction to extraordinary come from?

Does it start in-utero?

Is it naturally expressed in the child or a product of parenting hopes, dreams, programming and pressure?

Do our kids prosper or persevere in the pressure pot to be extraordinary?

Are there any more “P” words we could possibly integrate here (read on, dear one, as we peruse...)?

QuantiMama Jodi and Curious Quinn take a dive into what an addiction to the extraordinary looks like for today’s children and query, is it worth striving for?

Curious Quinn, a mum to two driven, motivated kids that have wanted to be extraordinary and QuantiMama Jodi, a mum who happily settles for mediocrity, potentially as a disservice to her kids.

Together, they explore:

· the responsibility of parents; their role/influence, social expectation drivers and personal desires;

· how children can form self-limiting beliefs, increased intensity and restrictions in the pursuit of extraordinary;

· how does the addiction to extraordinary impact one’s sense of self?

· is it possible for our kids, striving for the highest outcomes, to maintain a balance of rest, play, nourishment and joy in learning?

· what are the warning signs of kids heading towards overwhelm and what can we, as parents, functionally affect?

Ordinary or extraordinary, this conversation will spark in you, a deep knowing of what is in the best and most aligned interests of your kid.

Get listening, get questioning, get introspective and as always, fark the Shoulds.

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What’s with our preoccupation of being extraordinary?

Where does the addiction to extraordinary come from?

Does it start in-utero?

Is it naturally expressed in the child or a product of parenting hopes, dreams, programming and pressure?

Do our kids prosper or persevere in the pressure pot to be extraordinary?

Are there any more “P” words we could possibly integrate here (read on, dear one, as we peruse...)?

QuantiMama Jodi and Curious Quinn take a dive into what an addiction to the extraordinary looks like for today’s children and query, is it worth striving for?

Curious Quinn, a mum to two driven, motivated kids that have wanted to be extraordinary and QuantiMama Jodi, a mum who happily settles for mediocrity, potentially as a disservice to her kids.

Together, they explore:

· the responsibility of parents; their role/influence, social expectation drivers and personal desires;

· how children can form self-limiting beliefs, increased intensity and restrictions in the pursuit of extraordinary;

· how does the addiction to extraordinary impact one’s sense of self?

· is it possible for our kids, striving for the highest outcomes, to maintain a balance of rest, play, nourishment and joy in learning?

· what are the warning signs of kids heading towards overwhelm and what can we, as parents, functionally affect?

Ordinary or extraordinary, this conversation will spark in you, a deep knowing of what is in the best and most aligned interests of your kid.

Get listening, get questioning, get introspective and as always, fark the Shoulds.

Send us a text

Loved this convo? Come deeper.
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Follow along on IG, YouTube & FB—search @quantimama and come say "howdy".

Previous Episode

Circle Life

“This episode is a love letter to our beautiful soul sisters and soul brothers, with whom we have shared the most extraordinary, vulnerable, encouraging and heart-centred gatherings. Thank you, from the whole of our hearts, for these enriching, transformation encounters.”

Womens’ Circle & Mens’ Circle

So, what the fark is circle?

What happens there??

Is it really just a bit of whale music, goat sacrifice and nude-ing-up????

Hear from QuantiMama Jodi and QuantiPapa McGill as they reflect on their respective experiences of gathering in Womens’ and Mens’ circles. Hear of the practice, the unfolding, the magical moments and rawness of being in a space that asks nothing of you except your honest presence.

As always, an authentic, illuminating and inspiring conversation; demystifying this wonderful and simple way of connection in community and not one single goat was harmed in the creation of this conversation....

What are you waiting for?

Fark the shoulds!

Go find your tribe!

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Alchemising Education - The Kids Choose

Welcome back to Season 2 of the Faark The Shoulds podcast, kicking off in fashionably late style with this Alchemising Education episode.
If the parents “get to decide” then it’s only fitting that the kids “get to choose”!

Join QuantiMama Jodi and the ever-curious Curious Quinn for another Fark the Shoulds conversation on Alchemising Education.

What does child-led or child driven education look like?

Does it have structure?

A tangible and intelligible program?

Or is it just a free-for-all shermozzle that fosters unruly, wayward, undisciplined children; houses in disarray and home educating parents in the foetal position, tearing their hair out, struggling to track and trace their child’s progress?

Sorry not sorry to burst the bubble of hyperbolic generalisation. Child driven education is so much richer and rewarding than one could quantify, even with a dedicated half hour conversation.

Jodi and Quinn chat about the foundations for success in their kids’ education architecture:

Support

Trust

Structure, rhythm and natural boundaries

Natural learning times as devised by the learner (a learning in itself, one might say)

Empowerment

Trials and life tests

Reassessment and agility

Shepherding (rather than Sheepherding) our charges and

Being the custodians, not architects, of their education.

They also explore the idea of resilience and the misconception that it only comes from surviving trauma, challenging the idea that kids need to face adversity, in the absence of safety, security and a loving environment to build resilience.

In a world of abundant options, even in the home education sphere, hear from two Mums walking the talk on their decision to fark the shoulds and place their kids firmly in the driver’s seat of their learning.
Turns out that kids aren’t the only students when it comes to education.

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