All Entries in the "Podcasts: Home Education" Category
Living & Learning sans School: Encouragement from veteran voices
If you are newly adjusting to a life without school then you are in for a treat! If you are quite used to learning independently, then you’ll still enjoy this interview as the Unplugged Mom hosts Linda Dobson and Debbie Harbeson. Both of these awesome ladies are home ed veterans, outspoken advocates and authors; having [...]
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Unplugged Youth – Challenging the Current with Luke!
Another addition to the Unplugged Youth Series Hear from a schooled kid who unplugged himself despite his schooling! That’s right folks, this is a special interview with Luke Lawerson, a schooled teen who defied the status quo from inside the status quo! This young man has the unconventional skill of seeing the forest from inside [...]
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Diane Flynn Keith Interview
Author, Home Educator, Coach and Founder of Homefires.com – Diane Flynn Keith joined Laurette Lynn for a spectacular unplugged, discussion on the unconventional choices to learn outside of school! Join us as we discuss the problem with conventional schooling, the potential danger of preschool and more! Hear Diane’s story, how she got started with home [...]
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Unplugged Youth – Singer/Songwriter/Unschool Teen – Brycen R.R. Couture
Next in the Unplugged Youth series – Join us for a especially cool interview with unplugged, unconventional and unschooled teen Brycen R.R. Couture. Brycen is a singer/songwriter, game inventor and status-quo challenger living his rock star life in the now rather than the ‘after school’. Discover Brycen and hear about his music, his experience, and [...]
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The Trivium: The Concept and the Practical Application
Unplugged Mom Podcast brings you an exploration and introduction to the Trivium Maybe you’ve heard the term “Teaching with the Trivium” or something similar but you’re just not quite sure what it means, where to start looking for answers or quite what it’s all about. Well, here’s your answer. In this two-part series, I speak [...]
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Unplugged Youth – 13 Year-Old Prodigy, Adora Svitak
We hear from the experts, the guru’s the parents, the authors, even the teachers… lets hear from the kids! For the first off what will become a series of interviews with home educating kids, here is the first amazing, Unplugged Kid! Let us first meet Adora Svitak; Thirteen year old self-educated, author, speaker and teacher [...]
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Learning in the Raw
It’s not secret that I am a public and pretty fierce advocate for home education. During this escapade of mine, one of the most common excuses I hear are on behalf of families that for whatever reason can not home educate. Sometimes this is due to income situations, sometimes logistics, or health reasons etc. But [...]
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How Free Do You Wanna Be? Unplugging Axxiom Radio
My good friend Kaye who co-hosts Axxiom for Liberty show on Rule of Law Radio invited me on to help encourage more parents to unplug from school by recognizing the damage that institutionalized schooling has done to society. I’ve worked with Kaye before and was honored to be invited on her show again! We discussed [...]
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Interview with John Taylor Gatto
I recently had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with Mr. John Taylor Gatto for what shaped up to be a fantastic interview for Unplugged Mom Radio. Mr. Gatto is truly one of the most recognized (if not the most) outspoken advocates for bringing about change in public schooling and he strongly supports home [...]
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To Not School To Teach To Unschool To Learn
I ♥ Kate. That is what I’d like to call this episode of Unplugged Mom Radio. I had the great pleasure of chatting with Kate Fridkis Berring, ‘grown unschooler’ on her experience as a life-long life learner who never went to school. It was a beautiful and very insightful discussion on independent education from the [...]
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School Sucks: Brett and Laurette making trouble
It was a pleasure to enjoy the company, intelligent insight and strong opinions on school and learning with Brett Vienotte from School Sucks podcast! How exactly does school suck? How has it affected our lives? Our society? How did we get here? Listen in as Laurette and Brett make some trouble and engage in philosophizing [...]
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Embrace Your Boobs! Home Ed Works! (huh?)
On today’s episode of Unplugged Mom Radio I discussed whether or not home education works and also talked a little about parents inadvertently living vicariously through their kids. By the mid 1990′s the movement (which started showing significant signs of traction in the 70′s) took off and parents through the nation were quickly ditching the [...]
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Home ED: You CAN do it AND HOW!
You CAN do this AND HOW! Listen in as host Laurette Lynn encourages families to unplug from compulsory life and connect with organic independent learning! You CAN do it AND HOW! Understand, discover, learn and be encouraged! Laurette is also joined by special guest Leah Miller: Leah is a 16-year old unschooler. She left high [...]
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Teen Takes Control of Her Own Learning!
Co-authored by Leah Miller and Lisa Nielsen This post also appears on The Innovative Educator blog. “As a school principal I have one job and that is to expose kids to a whole lot of different things and help them to get their light bulb to go on.” –Barbara Slatin, Schoolwide Enrichment Model Principal (read [...]
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Class Dismissed: An Interview with the Director
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jeremy Stuart from 3Story films about his upcoming documentary project: Class Dismissed! Class Dismissed promises to be unlike anything you’ve seen exploring the world of Home Education – from the eyes of home educating Dad! I was thrilled to speak with Jeremy, and even more thrilled to release [...]
