7. Home Educating Wildlings - Society's Obsession with Age

09/12/23 • 19 min

This episode is all about society’s obsession with age. How children are segregated by their age and how we have so many unnatural expectations around age. The pressure we feel as parents around due dates, baby milestones and our childrens development.
Our age determines so much more than our developmental milestones and academic achievements. Sadly it can have negative implications on our mental health.

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6. Home Educating Wildlings - Choosing to Home Educate in a Fear-based Culture

This episode is all about how as a society we are governed by fear, often without even noticing it. The journey of motherhood is riddled with fear and coercion. School is the entry point for this life-long conditioning of fear - choosing to home educate is about deconditioning ourselves from a childhood and beyond of fear and control.
When we understand that our choices do not need to be ruled by fear we can finally start living a life of our choosing. But it takes a whole heap of deschooling and understanding. It can be equally, freeing to understand that any negative opinions of your choice to home educate is purely coming from a place of fear and misinformation.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so we may fear less.” Marie Curie. 🌱

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8 - Intentional home education and motherhood - Part One - In conversation with Lucy @the_unschooling_way

In this episode I'm joined by the lovely Lucy @the_unschooling_way on Instagram. We enjoy a nourishing conversation sharing some of our experience around deciding to home educate, how we carve out all-important one-to-one time with each of our children, and how the five love languages can really help us to better understand and support our children.
I loved chatting with Lucy who is calm, kind and intentional. We talk about how deschooling is more for us parents than for our children and how this life choice inevitably leads us down a constant learning journey for ourselves as mothers and women. There is much inner-work undertaken to trust this life choice and decondition ourselves when it comes to education and parenting.
I really hope you'll enjoy this open and honest chat between two very aligned mothers who simply want the very best for our children and know that self awareness is one of the biggest keys to unlock this for us all.