This Golden Hour

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In this podcast, we specifically serve new homeschool families through engaging conversations with homeschool parents and families at all levels of experience and expertise. Listeners will increase their confidence and assurance about their children's education and future while diminishing their fears. This podcast helps you know how to begin homeschooling, navigate challenges, and answer questions for all stages of the journey. The name “This Golden Hour” has meaning. First, this name refers to the years parents have to raise and teach their children from birth to when they leave home to be o...

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7. Beyond Academics to Relationships 24.07.2023 1:14:37

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Naomi and Steve Pedersen who are from Alberta, Canada. Naomi describes being homeschooled and sailing with her family from British Columbia, Canada to American Samoa when she was 11. She was worried about being behind academically by the time she returned to Canada but found that she was ahead, and she attributes this to the unique educational experie...

6. Know Your Purpose 22.07.2023 1:01:07

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Chelsea and Andrew Sheer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Sheer’s have been homeschooling for about five years after frustrations with how the schools and teachers were not responding, in their view, to the needs of their children. Their children were concerned with the undesirable sociality that they observed at school, and they feel that better soc...

5. From Homeschool Child to Homeschool Parent 22.07.2023 1:12:38

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Rachel Hanks from Bountiful, Utah in the United States. Rachel is unique from others I have interviewed so far because she was homeschooled for several years. She described her experience reading tons of books and not realizing how much she was learning at home. But when she went back to school after a few years she wondered what her peers had been doi...

4. Trust Your Gut, Get a Library Card, and Use YouTube 22.07.2023 51:38

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Amy Bay from Alberta, Canada. In this conversation, Amy covers a number of important homeschool topics, like participating in a homeschool community, finding mentors and outsourcing, field trips, and cultivating healthy family and peer relationships. She encourages homeschool parents to trust their intuition about what to do for their children, especia...

3. Crystal the Parenting Coach 21.07.2023 1:14:56

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Crystal and JD Haitsma from Alberta, Canada. In this conversation, we explore several benefits of the homeschool environment, including fostering relationship-building, self-directed learning, thinking outside the box, and helping children with their emotional development. We discuss how screens and electronics impede learning and that boredom is good...

2. Wisdom from Homeschool Pioneers 21.07.2023 42:38

In today’s episode, we get to spend time with Wendy and Bill Creed from southern Alberta, Canada. Wendy and Bill are pioneer homeschoolers and have influenced countless families where they live. In our interview, we discuss a wide variety of homeschooling topics and concerns. Wendy teaches us that life is our education and learning is our opportunity in everything we do. She explains why a support...

1. Introduction Episode 19.07.2023 2:49

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