The Raising Lifelong Learners podcast helps parents — especially homeschooling parents — encourage their differently-wired kids to learn, explore passions, cultivate creativity, and become fascinated by the world around them. Join host Colleen Kessler — educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and speaker — for interviews, audioblogs, tips, and encouragement to help your differently-wired kiddos become lifelong learners — children who know that they can find the answers to anything they want to know if they can just view their world with play, passion, and fascination.
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Guide Your Kids on the Path to Self-Discovery
One of the absolute most important things we can do for our differently wired kids: gifted, twice-exceptional, anxious, sensory, ADHD, autistic, or any other neurodivergency, is to help them understand who they are through self-discovery. We can help our kids see the beauty of how their brains are wired and teach them that this is […]
Create a Multimodal Learning Environment
Homeschooling neurodivergent kids is the absolute best thing educationally you can do for them. You love them more than anybody else and will move mountains to get them what they need. You’ll be very conscious of meeting them exactly where they are and moving them forward. Multimodal learning will help you do just that. It […]
Giving Your Child Life Skills | Metacognition
Metacognition has many benefits. When kiddos are facing attention difficulties, sensory challenges, executive function issues, or struggling with fine motor skills, metacognitive skills will help. It may look like staying focused in the moment, regulating their behavior, or managing their emotions. Over time as kids reflect on their own behaviors and the thought […]
Strengthening Executive Function Skills: A Conversation with Sarah Collins
Executive function skills are essential when it comes to homeschooling neurodivergent children, but sometimes it’s tough to know just how to incorporate teaching them into our everyday lives so we can help our kiddos become the best versions of themselves. Help For Neurodivergent Kids: Executive Function Skills From an OT Perspective Homeschooling a […]
Strengthen Executive Function Skills
Executive functions refer to a set of mental processes that enable children (and adults) to plan, organize, focus attention, control impulses, and manage time effectively. They are the cognitive and mental abilities that help engage in goal-directed action. They control our actions and behaviors, they motivate us to achieve our goals, and prepare us for […]
Helping Your Impulsive Child
If you are parenting a neurodivergent or twice-exceptional kiddo, you might also be dealing with impulsivity. At its core, impulsivity is a struggle with executive functioning skills. This means, that in addition to what we might typically think of as impulsivity – rash behavior or actions – it can also manifest as difficulty with decision-making […]