The Powerful Relationship Between Confidence And Learning In Our Homeschools
Homeschooling a gifted/2E child is often far more about helping our children develop confidence as learners than it is teaching any one subject. In this episode of The Raising Lifelong Learners Podcast, we talk about the relationship between confidence and...
What If Your Child’s Doctor Or Therapist Doesn’t Support Homeschooling?
In this bonus episode, Colleen and Shawna answer a homeschooling mom's question about doctors, therapists, and homeschooling. What do we do when doctors don't support our decision to homeschool? How can we prepare for therapist visits and doctor appointments?...
What Does A Gifted Homeschool Graduate Really Think About Homeschooling?
Have you ever wanted to ask a homeschool graduate what they thought about their homeschool experience? Are you curious about what an adult life after homeschool looks like? I get all the answers from Samantha Shank, a brilliant homeschool graduate, highly...
Why Homeschooling Helps Your Gifted Child Thrive
Education and achievement doesn’t have to look like school, and it doesn’t have to follow a prescribed path. In this audio-blog episode, Colleen shares the reality of rethinking achievement and how homeschooling helps our gifted children thrive. ...
A Quick Guide To Homeschooling High School For Gifted Children
Homeschooling high school, particularly when your child is gifted and twice-exceptional, has its own unique set of challenges and rewards. This quick guide provides encouragement, practical tips, and real examples you won't want to miss! A Guide...
Why Self-Care Is Important For Our Children Too
Self-care has become an increasingly popular topic in recent years, and for good reason. As parents, we simply must take care of ourselves in order to take care of our children. But what about our kids, especially those who are gifted and twice exceptional?...
RLL #107: Learning as an Unschooling Family with Robyn Robertson
I truly believe that the best way we can educate our gifted and twice-exceptional (2E) kids is through homeschooling with self-directed learning and unschooling. Self-Directed Learning vs. Unschooling? Self-directed learning is a self-motivated pursuit of...
RLL #106: [Audioblog] Young Gifted Children | Reflections from Parents
Did you just know that your child was gifted from the start? You know, that feeling down deep in your gut that something was different about your tiny tot, but you weren't able to completely pinpoint it? Or maybe you went straight to a search engine with...
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RLL #105: Parenting ADHD and Autism with Penny Williams
Parenting our neurodiverse kiddos, whether gifted or twice-exceptional kiddos (including autistic and ADHD), is just plain different. Typical parenting books and practices won't always work when we're trying to find ways to help our children become the very best...
RLL #104: A Conversation About Mindset with Shawna Wingert
Mindset is generally thought to be the attitudes or habits of an individual's mind that is formed by previous experience. These attitudes can predetermine a person’s response or interpretation to any given situation. Our quirky kiddos are not immune to...
