The Perfect Child Podcast

In this episode, I sit down with Amanda Schenkenberger of Homeschool Family Legacy to learn some of her invaluable insights on the home/unschooling journey. Amanda was homeschooled as a child and now is committed to homeschooling her four children, as well as, supporting any other families to create easeful homeschooling rhythms. Amanda offers personalized support that is aligned with each family'...

What does it mean to honor the Soul of a child? Is this a concept that we consider when we bring a new life into the world? In this conversation, Brianna Ladapo beautifully describes how homeschooling her children gives her the opportunity to really see her children and celebrate each one's unique gifts. She shares the contrast of seeing the light in her child's eyes diminish from time spent at co...

What IS self-directed learning? Well, it's only just what animals and humans have been doing since the beginning of time...We get birthed and then we learn how to do things simply by watching, trying, practicing, modeling and doing what our elders did. Somehow...in 1850 someone decided compulsory schooling needed to be implemented and since then no one has thought to question why do we send our ki...

What are the benefits of home educating our children? Mainly, more time spent with our most precious of beings. And, allowing them the freedom to CHOOSE what you and they would like to do with their time. The conventional systems set children up to become adults that suffer their consequences and environments, ie, bide their time until "work" is over. This is not the way. In this wonderfully uplif...

What a treat it was to be able to sit with Dayna Martin and have her share her stories of radical being in raising her four children who are now grown adults. Dayna truly exemplifies what it means to love our children well and raise them with the intention to allow them their complete freedoms. I found this to be a very refreshing conversation about how we can endeavor to show up in the world when...

"The Language of Betterarchy" is the title of Dani Katz's book, which I read and with which, I am totally obsessed. It is completely fathomable that our language absolutely creates our reality and with our awareness of the words we choose, we can absolutely shift our perceptions, our realities and the collective consciousness. I invite you to listen to this podcast with complete curiosity and a wi...

In this conversation that I share with Suzy Miller, she really invites us to embrace that which is commonly outside of our learned perception. They say, “our children are our teachers” but in this conversation, Suzy clearly exemplifies that it doesn’t have to be our own children for us to learn from the brilliance within each child. We are innately omniscient and the children are here to help us r...

This conversation that I share with Whitney Tiller of Wildflower Lactation brings me so much joy! There are so many moments of yumminess as Whitney shares the most important tender moments of birthing - something that the industrial birthing complex overlooks which is a disservice to mothers, babies, and, frankly, humanity as a whole. The Golden Hour, as Whitney references, is the fourth stage of...

We are all so much more than we know; and instead of having to remember what has been forgotten, our mission is to ensure our children grow up empowered in their sense of agency and sovereignty. Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan and I talk about the Luminous beings that are under our stewardship and how we can best be of service. I think ALL children are Luminous Beings. This is exemplified in many of the way...

Never have I come across a description of what a child experiences through their senses when they come into this world. Until I picked up Brianna Ladapo’s book, "Emerging from Darkness: A Spiritual Memoir and Guide Back to the Light". Her description of the assault on her senses that she experienced as a young child brought me to tears. I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to sit with Brianna t...

In this interview with Stephen Spitalny, long time Waldorf Kindergarten teacher at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School and early childhood consultant, Stephen and I discuss the self work that is needed when we want to connect with the young child. I asked Stephen the following three questions: 1. Have you noticed a difference in the way children develop or in parenting now as compared with 10 years ago?...

In this riveting conversation, Dr. Paul Thomas, who may be the ONLY MD to have conducted a scientific study of his own patients (over 3000, over the course of 10 years) to determine the efficacy of >accines on overall health outcomes, shares his findings and his thoughts on why we are where we are with regards to pediatric “well-visits” and the overall western allopathic medical industrial comp...

In this enlightening discussion, Alison Elsberry of Embodied Brilliance and I dive into the Psychology of a Label - what does it mean, how does it feel, energetically, when you are given a diagnosis of a label to describe your child? Just like a label in a shirt can produce a feeling of friction, the same happens when you/your child is given a label to describe them - ADD, ADHD, and the myria...

In this heartwarming conversation with Becky Damgaard of  The Autism Treatment Center of America , she shares with us the principles of the Son Rise Program. The same principles that  Barry Neil Kaufman  and his wife Samahria used to reverse their child's "severe autism diagnosis". It is clear that how we currently meet the children does not support them meeting their highest potent...