43. Nadine Lauffer and How to Homeschool in High School Podcast
01/17/24 • 74 min
In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Nadine Lauffer from Pennsylvania. Nadine is a current homeschool student and the host of the How to Homeschool in High School podcast. When she was in fourth grade, Nadine's mom decided that she was going to homeschool Nadine and her little sister along with several friends from church. Eventually, the Lauffer's moved to a new state and did not have the same co-op community they were used to in Florida; but they had grown in their philosophy and loved the time and relationship-building that homeschooling afforded. One of the biggest challenges that Nadine has experienced as a homeschool student is the fear of missing out on all the glamorous things depicted about school in books and movies and among her friends. However, Nadine has outgrown this fear and recognizes how much the homeschool option and lifestyle has blessed her life. Presently, she is taking two dual enrollment courses at a local college, and Nadine is learning how homeschooling has helped her to be adaptable. She is confident because she has learned to love learning and how to learn. To show how unafraid she is to learn, Nadine started a podcast in 2022 to help people, specifically her homeschool high school peers, to learn and understand more about homeschooling. Nadine counsels new homeschool families to expect the journey to be challenging and even inconvenient, but completely worth the struggle.
Connect with Nadine
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2045736
Books
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
God's Smuggler
Curriculum
https://iew.com/
https://diveintomath.com/shormann/
https://bereanbuilders.com/ecomm/
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In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Nadine Lauffer from Pennsylvania. Nadine is a current homeschool student and the host of the How to Homeschool in High School podcast. When she was in fourth grade, Nadine's mom decided that she was going to homeschool Nadine and her little sister along with several friends from church. Eventually, the Lauffer's moved to a new state and did not have the same co-op community they were used to in Florida; but they had grown in their philosophy and loved the time and relationship-building that homeschooling afforded. One of the biggest challenges that Nadine has experienced as a homeschool student is the fear of missing out on all the glamorous things depicted about school in books and movies and among her friends. However, Nadine has outgrown this fear and recognizes how much the homeschool option and lifestyle has blessed her life. Presently, she is taking two dual enrollment courses at a local college, and Nadine is learning how homeschooling has helped her to be adaptable. She is confident because she has learned to love learning and how to learn. To show how unafraid she is to learn, Nadine started a podcast in 2022 to help people, specifically her homeschool high school peers, to learn and understand more about homeschooling. Nadine counsels new homeschool families to expect the journey to be challenging and even inconvenient, but completely worth the struggle.
Connect with Nadine
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2045736
Books
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
God's Smuggler
Curriculum
https://iew.com/
https://diveintomath.com/shormann/
https://bereanbuilders.com/ecomm/
This Golden Hour
Free eBook Course
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42. Jeff Park and Alberta Parents Union
In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Jeff Park from Calgary, Alberta. Jeff is a father of four and the founder and executive director of the Alberta Parents Union, with expertise in policy research, advocacy, and political campaigning. Growing up in the southern States, Jeff attended Christian schools and was also traditionally homeschooled. From his successful debate experience at Liberty University in Virginia, Jeff was recruited by HSLDA to do research on home education. After getting married and moving to Alberta, Canada, Jeff pursued his interest in school choice by working for several organizations and think tanks, specifically focusing on education policy. Eventually, Jeff started Alberta Parents Union to advocate for parental authority and control in all education choices, including homeschooling. In our conversation, Jeff explained and clarified several questions about education, including funding problems and the option for school vouchers, parents' voice and influence, or lack thereof, in education decisions, and the problem with way too much government control in how education happens in North America. We discussed the research and the reasons for the significant growth of homeschooling and its superior benefits to any other education option, like homeschool students' greater participation in the democratic process and running for office. Ultimately, Jeff Park just wants to make sure that families have more education options and that they know what those options are.
Connect with Jeff Park
https://www.albertaparentsunion.ca/
Resources
https://hslda.ca/
https://hslda.org/
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46. Blake Boles and Unschool Adventures
In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Blake Boles from California. Blake is currently in Freiburg, Germany, and soon will be cycling in Chile. When Blake was attending the University of California, Berkeley, he began in the astrophysics program, but decided he did not want to research Science and started studying Education on his own. He came across the writings of John Taylor Gatto and Grace Llewellyn, and Blake knew he wanted to pursue alternative education. From his own experiences growing up and in college, Blake was always curious about adventures and wanted to facilitate the same experiences for youth. Blake created his business, Unschool Adventures, where he takes groups of youth all over the world on a variety of adventures so that they can face real situations and challenges that cause them to stretch, learn, and leave their zones of comfort. Over the years, Blake has written several books about self-directed learning and helping youth navigate both the high school years and decisions about life after high school, like getting into college. He values giving children and youth the freedom to learn and the freedom to fail, and he believes in communities that are consensual and interest based.
Connect with Blake
https://www.blakeboles.com/
https://www.offtraillearning.com/podcast/
Books by Blake
https://www.amazon.ca/Still-Sending-Your-Kids-School/dp/0986011975
https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Self-Directed-Learning-Unconventional-Education/dp/0986011959
https://www.amazon.com/College-Without-High-School-Teenagers/dp/0865716552
https://www.amazon.ca/Better-Than-College-Blake-Boles/dp/0986011908
Books
https://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Anniversary/dp/0865714487
https://www.amazon.com/Different-Kind-Teacher-American-Schooling/dp/1893163210
https://www.amazon.ca/Underground-History-American-Education-Investigation/dp/0945700040
The Teenage Liberation Handbook
The Case Against Education
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This Golden Hour - 43. Nadine Lauffer and How to Homeschool in High School Podcast
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I think we realized It was such an amazing opportunity to grow as a family, and we started meeting homeschoolers here, and the fruit of the homeschooling just a different sort of teenager than what we were used to seeing I remember meeting one girl who's my friend now, she was just really confident, she looked my mom in the eye when we were talking, and was just really rooted in things that I wanted to become, so I remember noticing that and
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