Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids

Conscious Parenting & Deschooling Re-examining how we live, learn and parent.   Welcome to episode 116. This episode is a recording of my December Clubhouse room with Tira Hunter, Erika Kesliman and Missy Willis. Our theme ~ Conscious Parenting and Deschooling goes deeper into our journey of learning and self refelction.   Tira Hunter is an unschooling mom to 18 year old Zoi. Tira de...

Deschooling Money & Minimalism Rachel Rainbolt joins me on the podcast for episode 116, Deschooling, Money & Minimalism. This season we are moving further into the Deschooling process; what it means, why it is important, the broader impacts it has in our life and how it can positively impact our learning journey. (That's right. I said how it can positively impact our learning journey) Rach...

  Season 6- Deschooling and Growing Without School Welcome to a new season of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. Season 6. If you are new to the podcast, let me introduce myself. My name is Robyn Robertson and I am the creator and host of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. I am a home educating mom with hopes, dreams, failures and doubts. Just like you.  In this episode I share a little...

Veteran Unschooling Moms Q&A Are you new to unschooling? Does it sound like a beautiful concept, to support your children in their natural, non-rushed learning process? But yet, are you still having a hard time wrapping your head around it?  What about the unschooled teens? What happens to the families that have unschooled all of their lives? Or for a major portion of their young lives in...

Building Literacy At Home This is episode 113 and I am excited to share this Clubhouse discussion on building literacy at home. In this special episode I invited three moms that share my passion for learning in the natural world. All three of my co-hosts are former school educators and two of the three are now homeschooling parents. Lesley Jones Sessler is a progressive educator, blogger at WatchM...

Creating A Culturally Rich Home Learning Environment Amber O’Neal Johnston is a writer, speaker, and Worldschooling Charlotte Mason mama who blends living books with life-giving books and a culturally-rich environment for her four children and others seeking to do the same. She recommends we offer children opportunities to see themselves and others reflected in their lessons and especia...

Homeschooling~Getting Started Part 2:Clubhouse Edition Are you just getting started in homeschooling? Or are you a homeschooler that has hit a bump in the road and needs a little more encouragement? This episode is for you then. Our September Theme in the Honey! I'm Homeschooling club on Clubhouse was; Homeschooling- Getting Started. I recorded two of our Clubhouse conversations from that month an...

Food, Parenting and Unschooling FOOD. What does that word bring up for you? Does it make you think of work, hurt or frustration? Or does it conjure up feelings of joy, positivity and empowerment? It's interesting how our ideas, thoughts and even judgements around food are similar to those we hold around learning. For some of us, food can certainly play a large part in our parenting framework. Deen...

Alternatives to College~Praxis Is University or College the only option? I know University is what we push, or aspire our kids to attend. We try our best to use their childhood to prepare them it. Not to prepare them for adulthood, but for college. I even notice at times that people measure the success of homeschooling or unschooling on...college. Were they able to get in, did they attend and if t...

  Did you know that only 40% of College Students graduate in 4 years?   60% graduate in 6 years.   60% change majors at least 3 times.   In the US, the average cost of an instate public college is over $27000/year. A private college is $55,000/year.   Extending time in college can be a costly choice. That is why Beth and Greg Langston feel that empowering students to maste...

Homeschool: Getting Started~Clubhouse Edition If you have been listening to the podcast this last year or following Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids on social media you may have heard that we have a wonderful homeschooling "club" on the Clubhouse app. The Club is called Honey! I'm Homeschooling and we host a room every Saturday at 9am mountain time, Monday's at 11am mountain time and Tuesday's at...

Values and Guiding Purpose For many it's the beginning of the new school year! For others you may be half way through that beginning journey. How has it been so far? In this episode I am focusing on why and how you can build your values and guiding purpose. This is an important foundation whether you are a homeschooler, unschooler or even traditional schooler. It is important part of the homeschoo...

  Welcome to episode 105 with Pilar Bewley of Mainly Montessori. In this episode Pilar took time out to talk about embracing a Montessori mindset in homeschooling. We talked about the Montessori philosophy, how that plays out in the home environment vs the classroom and why she felt homeschooling Montessori supported her family best.   Pilar is a former Montessori child, homeschool mento...

Social Emotional Learning with Dr. Lorea Martínez  Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is...

Finding Joy, Connection and Freedom Within Structure Kelly Edwards is the creator of the 90-Minute School Day .  A lifestyle approach to education.  The 90-Minute School Day method connects children with learning in their natural environment: at home with their family.  It is designed for pre-K through 6th grade.  Kelly is passionate about home education, connecting f...

Homeschooling and Mindfulness   Isabelle Robledo is a 17-year-old kids mindfulness coach and co founder of Making Mindfulness Fun. She is helping kids and teens to be confident and creative using mindfulness. She's been living in an RV for the past six years while traveling the world with her family of seven. She learned mindfulness from a very young age, and believes that now, more than...

From School To Homeschool Demetria Giles has over 15 years of experience in education and is passionate about culturally responsive pedagogy, critical thinking development, and project-based learning. She is the former Director of Curriculum & Instruction at 9th Bridge School, a private early childhood and elementary school located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. She is also an education c...

That's right! This is Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids 100th episode. For the special milestone episode we decided to do an Ask Me Anything where my daughter did the asking and I did the answering. Listeners sent in questions through social media that we answered on the show. What did they ask? What Are Your Homeschool Fears? How Do You Unschool High School? Have You Learned To Respect Your Kids...

Sue Patterson is a homeschooling coach and founder of Unschooling Mom2Mom. She helps parents find creative ways to approach learning and reconnect with their children, when their current educational option isn’t working.   Sue has been active in the homeschooling community for twenty-five years and is happy to share practical suggestions of how to make unschooling work. H...

  If we value raising independent thinkers and self directed learners, wouldn't we also want to support financial independence? For those of us that choose this home educating path, we often choose to "opt-out" of not just school. Often our choice to leave the education system causes us to start re-thinking other mainstream ideas as well.   One of these mainstream assumptions is our idea...

  Growing Up Unschooled Unschooling- "The freedom for anyone, young and old to choose why, what, when, how and from whom to learn things." It is learner directed, learner centred. Unschooling may sound like a nice idea, but are you wondering if it is realistic in practice? Can a young child or teen learn that way? Don't they need the structure of school to get a job or go to University? What...

  Recently I have been hearing more stories about people in the Bitcoin network becoming interested in unschooling. Or possibly the stories are of unschoolers becoming interested in Bitcoin.....   In either case, why the interest? What do Unschooling and Bitcoin have in common? Unschooling and Bitcoin As my family has been learning and diving into the world of Bitcoin over the last few y...

  Karla Marie Williams is a speaker, writer, global child advocate and unschooling mom to 6 kids. Yes, that's right, 6 kids, who are almost all at or in their teen years. Karla Marie is also the President of Be Bold Publishing. I welcomed her on the show to celebrate the release of her new book, Teens Unleashed. Teens Unleashed offers real life, hands on experience and practical tips to help...

Disruptor [noun] - a person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/disruptor Yes, this month we are talking about disruption. I think it is a fitting theme for this past year, don't you? There is a lot of disruption happening all around us and it is not necessarily bad. Ch...

Math Codes Kohila Sivas is a parent, teacher, Math Interventionist, and a Holistic Success Coach for students and parents. Over the past 22 years, Kohila has developed a simple proven system called MathCodes and she uses this system to help students rapidly transform their math performance as well as shift their mindset, grow their confidence, and outperform their expectations in all areas of thei...