Modern Education Movement Gerry Kirk

This episode is a conversation between 4 dads with kids @ Galileo. At Galileo, there are families from all around the world who have chosen to home educate their children for a number of reasons. For some, it’s to suit a nomadic lifestyle or to break the status quo. For others, they’re fed up with the traditional schooling system and want to do more for their children.

Listen in as we share our unique family journeys on education and everything in between.

This conversation took place originally on Clubhouse, and Galileo was kind to let me share it with you all.

Have you ever reacted strongly to something your kid has done, and then later regretted how you handled it?
Does this happen way more often than you’d care to admit?
Include me in that camp!

My guest today Hunter Clarke-Fields had her own breakthrough moment. Years ago, she noticed her young toddler was becoming fearful from momma’s yelling, and she knew something needed to change.

Now Hunter is a mindful mama mentor. She is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course, host of the Mindful Mama Podcast, and Best Selling Author of Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids.

Hunter’s non-judgmental, practical advice helps parents to bring more calm and peace into their daily lives. She has over twenty years of experience in meditation practices and has taught mindfulness to thousands worldwide.

She is the mother of two active daughters, who challenge her every day to hone her craft!

Dr. Jeannine Jannot is an academic coach and the author of The Disintegrating Student: Struggling But Smart, Falling Apart, and How To Turn It Around.

She has over 25 years of experience working with children, teens, and young adults in both public and private school settings.

In 2014 she founded The Balanced Student, which offers customized academic coaching for middle school, high school and college students. (and parents)

Jeannine has a master's degree in school psychology from The Ohio State University and a doctorate in child and developmental psychology from the University of Connecticut.

Today we'll explore:

- Disintegrating students (students who hit a wall and fall apart - academically and emotionally).
- Most anything parenting tweens/teens/young adults - communication, how we help and hinder growth

Covid restrictions have put enormous pressure on a lot of kids. One research study reveals that depression and anxiety in youth has doubled compared to pre-pandemic levels.

One in 4 adolescents globally are experiencing clinically elevated depression symptoms, while 1 in 5 youth are experiencing clinically elevated anxiety symptoms."

What we have is a global mental health crisis in youth.

My guest today, Dr. Karin Jakubowski sees this first-hand. She’s a school principal, and has worked in education for over 20 years.

She sees kids struggle in school. Some have behavioral issues, some just can't 'do school' as we know it.

Through years of practice, she’s unlocked ways to help kids break through these barriers.

Dr. Jakubowski is a well-respected international influencer on helping kids live happier, healthier lives, navigating through their most challenging moments.

Karin now works directly with moms through her Momnificent program, so mom’s can build stronger and more meaningful relationships with their kids, and be the support their kids need.

And ultimately, as a parent, sleep better at night!

Today we’ll explore what you can do as a parent to help your kids be mentally and emotionally strong, no matter what life throws at them.

I’m really excited for today’s show, which is especially for parents raising differently wired children - children with learning disabilities, ADHD, twice-exceptional, autism, sensory processing challenges, anxiety, giftedness and more.

I didn’t realize that more than 20 percent of today’s children are in some way neurologically atypical. My guest today, Debbie Reber refers to this as “differently wired.”

And because the world isn’t set up to accommodate their unique way of being, these exceptional kids and the parents raising them, struggle to navigate their journey.

This is the situation Debbie found herself in as she raised her child Asher. And despite her attempts to get support, she discovered little out there that spoke to her situation.

In 2016 Debbie created Tilt Parenting to help parents like her get the support they need.

Since then, she’s given a TEDx talk and published the book Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World.

Her podcast has over 3 million downloads.

Educating differently wired kids - no better person on the planet to talk about this!

My guest today, Shelby Kretz has a dream - to create a world where everyone is accepted for who they are.

For her, that means we investing in the next generation. Alongside other topics like maths, sciences and the arts, they also need awareness of social justice.

Parents play an important role in this, but talking about social justice issues can be hard. How can we make topics interesting? We might not feel we have enough knowledge on a topic.

So Shelby created a fun program to help parents. Little Justice Leaders is a monthly box filled with conversation starters, activities, and other goodies, you can make these tough conversations fun and interesting for your little ones.

Her passion is working with kids - she’s spent more than a decade creating fun learning experiences for kids and families.

Today we’ll dive into the world of social justice education for younger kids, and how parents can nurture little justice leaders in their own home.