Home Ed Voices Podcast Katie Hanrott

We now have a shared collective trauma. This is how I see the effects of trauma every day. But how do we heal and move forward from here? Share your narratives. Originally written by Kate McConaghy.

This week I'm chatting with Jay Byrd from @beanlearning. We talk about  what it's like being a second generation home educator and home education in the UK in the 90's. Jay tells us about her passion for project based learning and gentle parenting, and we talk about bean learning, which offers UK based online video groups and classes for home educated children and home educating adults.



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This week I'm chatting with Naomi Fisher, the author of Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning. We talk about how home educated children related to their peers, the long process of deschooling, internal and external motivation, and supporting ADHD and autism in the home educating community.

There are definite barriers to home education, (needing to work outside the home to pay the bills, especially for single parent families, co-parenting with someone who refuses to support home education etc) but a lack of qualifications is not one of them. #aHillToDieOn

Over planning things that sound good but you won't actually do, is a waste of time and makes you feel bad. (Ask me how I know this...) Here's what I suggest you do instead.

We talk about her new book Extraordinary Parenting, about writing it during lockdown and about how it is a unique source of comfort and support for parents and home educators during this pandemic.

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