Worldschooling Q&A Podcast

Episode Title: Episode 52: What are tips for how to cope with reverse culture shock? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter After four years of full-time travel, Astrid and Clint get honest about what happened when they came home. They walk through how to cope with reverse culture shock (which they didn't expect!), the grief of losing a traveling community, and the anxiety t...

Episode Title: Episode 51: What are the benefits of slow travel? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week, Astrid and Clint dig into the benefits of slow travel and why it's one of their family's core values. They explain what counts as slow travel and share how staying longer in one place can lower costs on lodging, food, and transportation. They also cover the phys...

Episode Title: Episode 50: How can I involve my kids in the family travel planning? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This episode helps parents who want their kids to feel like real partners in family travel planning, not just passengers. Astrid and Clint explain how they let each family member pick three dream destinations before their big trip. They also share how le...

Episode Title: Episode 49: What Are The Best Gap Year Travel Ideas For Families? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint answer a question that comes up again and again: what are some good gap year travel ideas for families? They walk through more than a dozen approaches, including house-sitting in small towns, heritage travel tied to family history...

Episode Title: Episode 48: What are unique travel items you travel with? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This episode is for worldschooling families who want to make daily life on the road smoother. Astrid and Clint share the unique travel items they picked up along the way during four years of full-time travel, not things they packed on day one, but tools they added...

Episode Title: Episode 47: How Do You Create A Flexible Worldschooling Curriculum? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter   This episode answers a question a lot of worldschooling parents ask: how do you build a worldschooling curriculum that balances structured lesson plans with the spontaneous learning that happens on the road? Astrid and Clint walk through the daily routi...

Episode Title: Episode 46: What’s the best method for language learning for travel? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint dig into language learning for travel, answering a question from families wondering how to actually teach kids a new language on the road, not just talk about wanting to. They share the specific apps and podcasts that have work...

Episode Title: Episode 45: How Do You Find Worldschooling Communities? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint tackle one of the most common worldschooling questions: how do you actually find worldschooling communities on the road? They walk through the best Facebook groups for getting started, including Project World School, World-Schooling Central...

Episode Title: Episode 44: What Are Tips For Making Friends While Traveling? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter   This week Astrid and Clint tackle one of the questions they hear most from other worldschooling parents: how do you make sure your kids keep their friendships and social skills while traveling full-time? They break it into two parts - keeping up with friends...

Episode Title: Episode 43: What Are The Emotional Benefits of Travel For Kids? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint dig into what it actually means to raise emotionally secure kids on the road, breaking it down into three pieces: stability, safety, and confidence. They talk about how sticking to small routines, like their go-to "egg in the nest"...

Episode Title: Episode 42: What Are Tips For Traveling With Your Partner? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint get personal, tackling a question every traveling couple eventually runs into: how do you keep the romance alive when you're together 24/7 and constantly managing kids and logistics? They talk honestly about how the relationship between...

Episode Title: Episode 41: How Do You Balance Mental Health And Travel? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week Astrid and Clint dig into a question every prospective worldschooling family should sit with: what does long-term travel actually do to you emotionally and mentally? They admit they planned their 2018-2022 trip down to the logistics but completely overlook...

Episode Title: Episode 40: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Japan? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter In this episode of Worldschooling Q&A, Astrid and Clint wrap up their country deep-dive series with a look at worldschooling in Japan, the final stop after covering places like Italy and Vietnam. They walk through what it took to plan a shorter, two-week trip through T...

Episode Title: Episode 39: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Spain? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This episode continues Astrid and Clint's country deep dive series with a look at worldschooling in Spain, and it's especially useful for families weighing a stay in a Schengen country for the first time. They cover the logistics that matter most: the 90 day Schengen visa...

Episode Title: Episode 37: How Do We Do Worldschooling in the United States? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter In this episode of Worldschooling Q&A, Astrid and Clint tackle a question that comes up more than you might expect: how do you worldschool in your own backyard? As part of their ongoing country deep dives, they explore what it actually looks and feels like...

Episode Title: Episode 38: How Do We Do Worldschooling in the United Kingdom? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter The UK might not be the first destination that comes to mind for worldschooling families, but Astrid and Clint make a strong case for why it absolutely should be. In this episode, they walk through the practical side of traveling through England and Scotland,...

Episode Title: Episode 36: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Vietnam? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter This week, Astrid and Clint dive into one of the most memorable stops in their four years of full-time worldschooling: Vietnam. With a candid heads-up that their time there overlapped with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they share what it was actually like to arrive...

Episode Title: Episode 35: How Do I Do Worldschooling in the Philippines? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter In this episode, Astrid and Clint answer the question: how do I worldschool in the Philippines? Clint brings a personal connection to this one, having grown up in a Filipino family and visited the country both as a family trip and as worldschoolers. Together they...

Episode Title: Episode 34: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Singapore? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter   In this episode, Astrid and Clint dig into one of their favorite stops in Southeast Asia: Singapore. They break down what makes this compact city-state such a compelling destination for worldschooling families, covering logistics like currency, transit, and safety al...

Episode Title: Episode 33: How Do We Do Worldschooling In Bali? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 2:43 - Astrid and Clint comparing the size of Bali to Delaware while discussing the island's geography) Worldschooling in Bali is a topic that comes up often among worldschooling families, and in this episode of the family learning podcast, Astrid a...

Episode Title: Episode 32: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Indonesia? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 17:07 — Clint describing how to cross a street in Jakarta: commit, own it, and traffic will slow down or go around you — but no one will stop preemptively) In this episode of Worldschooling Q&A, Astrid and Clint dive into one of our favorit...

Episode Title: Episode 31: How Do We Do Worldschooling in France? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 17:06 — Clint describing the day they were in Paris during a record-breaking heat wave: the equivalent of 120°F, with no air conditioning anywhere) France may not have been a perfect trip — Paris in July turned out to be one of the hottest weeks o...

Episode Title: Episode 30: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Italy? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 12:38 — Astrid and Clint describing the 600-year-old farmhouse near Parma, complete with a pizza oven, champagne grapes, and a stone cottage kitchen) Italy might just be the most approachable European destination for worldschooling families — and i...

Episode Title: Episode 29: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Costa Rica? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 9:43 — Clint defending the wildlife sightings in Manuel Antonio after Astrid's raccoon joke) Costa Rica holds a special place in the worldschooling journey of Astrid and Clint — it was their honeymoon destination in 2009, and they returned yea...

Episode Title: Episode 28: How Do We Do Worldschooling in Mexico? Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter (Intro clip sourced from 3:32 — Astrid describing how Mexico became a country their family keeps returning to, year after year, even after long stretches elsewhere) Mexico holds a special place in the worldschooling journey of The Wandering Daughter family — it's the coun...