Unschooling Conversations

Screen Addiction: How to Support Your Teen's Healthy Relationship with Technology Tea and Guest Episodes are on 'Early Release' to LivePlayLearn Monthly members. You can find out more and join at https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn/tiers In this episode Dr Naomi Fisher and Heidi Steel discuss the complexities of Screen Addiction. So, pop the kettle on, grab a cup of tea, and listen in. We...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Lainie Liberti joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her journey into radical unschooling and her recent book Seen, Heard and Understood. As a result of the 2008 California economy crash, Liberti closed her Los Angeles based branding agency. Liberti and her then 9-year-old Miro decided to “be the change” instead of victims and chose a lif...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Tamsyn Fortune-Wood joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her experiences as an unschooled person. We discuss: · Making the decision to Home Educate her own children and ditching those school registration forms in the bin 3:00 · What are the most common questions that Tamsyn is asked when people find out that she was home educated 7:00 ·...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Summer Jean Campbell joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her experiences as an unschooled person We discuss: Introducing Summer Jean Campell and welcome to the podcast How Summer spends her days as a grown unschooler 2:00 Reflections on how life would have been different had Summer been in school 4:00 The value of exploring your own pur...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Alice Khamisia joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Creating Community We discuss: · How to begin finding the community that you need and the snowball effect 3:00 · The necessity of finding the right community for encouragement and support 10:00 · Dealing with discouragement, the reality of not having a ready made group given to...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Rachel Evans joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about How our Children Learn without Curriculums We discuss: · Snapshot of our households 3:00 · What does learning look like? 8:10 · Move from discovery to mastery learning, unconscious and conscious learning · Web of learning and individual learning journeys 12:40 · Creating a rich and suppor...

Angela Harders joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Gentle Parenting, our journeys into unschooling, and the importance of community. Angela is a bilingual special education teacher near Washington DC, she has been teaching for over twelve years. She is a single mum to two children, Sophia aged 7, and Benjamin aged 3. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn We discuss:...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi : Jyoti Imix joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about recording evidence, observing children, and research on Self-Directed Education in light of the Portsmouth Judicial Review. We discuss: · Children’s Rights and advocating for children as a minority group 2:30 · Heidi gives a detail outline of her background 7:30 · PCC Judicial Review 12:00 · What documenting lear...

Tiersa McQueen joins Heidi Steel, in the first of a double bill, this month, to talk about Unschooling Ourselves. Tiersa is a parent to four unschooled children, living in Florida, and an active unschooling advocate on Twitter. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn We discuss: · How Tiersa came to unschooling 3:40 · How our teens transition to further education 6:50 · The c...

Tiersa McQueen joins Heidi Steel, in the first of a double bill, this month, to talk about Partnering Our Children Tiersa is a parent to four unschooled children, living in Florida, and an active unschooling advocate on Twitter. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn We discuss: · Respectfully and consciously parenting our children 1:00 · Partnering our children and over com...

Krish Khimasia joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Unschooling Maths. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/liveplaylearn Krish has been a secondary maths teacher for over twenty years, and with his wife, Alice, an unschooling parent to his four sons now aged 19, 18, 15 and 9. He now teaches at the Secret Garden, an alternative educational provision in the West Midlands. We discu...

Esther Jones from the podcast Unschool Space joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Unschooling Ourselves and our own Self Care. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn We discuss: · The return to authenticity and natural living 2.10 · The importance of community 5.00 · Enabling our children to thrive6.20 · Unschooling being the best fit for our neurodivergent ch...

“There is no perfect option but unschooling is as close to perfect as you’re going to get” Gina Riley joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her academic book on Exploring Unschooling Beyond the Classroom. Gina Riley is an unschooling parent, educational psychologist, and Clinical Professor. She has worked alongside Peter Gray, and is known internationally for her research into Self Directed...

Jenna Reich from Rogue Learner joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about our own path to unschooling. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn We discuss: · What drives teachers to unschool their own children 2:15 · Evaluating our life goals and values 5:30 · Taking back control over our own lives, freedom, flexibility and following our intuition 6:30 · The Path to u...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn Sarah Beale joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Ditching the Rules We discuss: · Making connections, friends and building community 0:50 · Ditching the rules and defining a pancake 4:10 · Fear based decision making and childism 10:15 · Introducing ourselves and the podcast 15:30 · Parenting success 17:30 · At what point...

Kelly Humphrey joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about the role of play beyond the Early Years. SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn We discuss: · How children play and learn beyond the age of five. · Defining true play 3:00 -Deep immersion, intrinsically motivated, freely chosen, free flowing. · Why play is so important for children beyond the age of five 6:40...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn Peter Gray joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about the role of play in our children’s natural learning journey. We discuss: · Learning through real play, natural human development, and the adult’s role in providing a rich environment. · Peter shares with us his own interest and personal journey into Self Directed Education 2...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn Adele Jarret-kerr joins Heidi Steel in the 6th episode of Unschooling Conversations, to talk about Anti-Racism work in Unschooling Families. Our discussion includes: · Unschooling as a powerful tool for decolonisation work. · The opportunity that we have to interact with the real world. · Embracing diversity of opinion and thoug...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn Harry Thompson – PDA Extraordinaire joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about Unschooling Neurodivergent children. Harry introduces himself in his own unique style and goes on to give us an insight into what it is that our neurodiverse children truly need from us as their parents. This episode is jam packed full of goodies. We...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: liveplaylearn Rachel Evans, unschooling parent and advocate from Connect and Respect, joins Heidi Steel this episode, to talk about Deschooling. We discuss: · The importance of deschooling, what it is and why we do it. · The practicalities of deschooling. · What deschooling looks like for parents, questioning schooled thinking, deconstructing our ideas of learning,...

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn Iris Chen joins Heidi Steel this month, in a trans-Atlantic episode, to discuss her new book, Untigering. You can listen to us talk about: · The impact of our parenting and relationships with our children on our unschooling journeys. · Prioritising relationships, partnering our children, and fostering a relational paradigm inste...

This months episode introduces us to Naomi Fisher's recently published book Changing our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning.  SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/liveplaylearn?fan_landing=true  ORDER NAOMI'S BOOK: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/naomi-fisher/changing-our-minds/9781472145505/ and other retailers.    Naomi Fisher a...

Join Heidi Steel from Live. Play. Learn and Alice Khimasia as we discuss Unschooling Teenagers. An episode that predominantly looks at exams,  how unschooled children are equipped to self study,  the options that are open to them if and when they choose to pursue exams, the array of possibilities that are currently available to our teenagers as they look to use their interests, skills an...