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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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Interest-Led Learning In The Early Years: Preschool and Beyond
Curious about Interest-led learning for your younger child, but not sure where to start? This will guide you through letting your child take the lead beginning in preschool and on into the elementary years. Following your kids’ curiosity and crafting your homeschool around their interests can be a powerful way to motivate learning. When…
Interest Led Homeschooling: Helping Your Child Find Their Interests
How do we help our kids find their interests? What can we do to foster them and what happens if our kids change interests? These are all good questions and worth exploring as we move into a more relaxed, eclectic, interest led, child driven approach in our homeschools. What Is Child-Led Learning? Child-led…
The Pros And Cons Of Homeschool Charter Schools
Does your state offer charter school options for homeschoolers? Have you been wondering if a charter might be a good option for your family? I am joined by Shawna Wingert from Different By Design Learning as she shares her own experience with a homeschool charter, and what she sees as the overall pros and cons…
Practical Strategies For Helping Anxious Kids
This is the final episode in our series, all about anxiety. Today we’re going to talk about strategies and tools we can use to help our children cope. These are practical takeaways we can use to help our kids manage their anxiety. We want our kids to know that there’s nothing wrong with them….
Anxiety and Learning: What You Need To Know
This continues our series, all about anxiety and atypical children. Today, we are talking specifically about the impact of anxiety on learning. Anxious kids are anxious kids all aspects of their lives, including learning. When it comes to work, homeschool, traditional school, private school, and anxiety, it can be hard to determine what…
Anxiety In Children: Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral Symptoms
This continues our new series, all about homeschooling a child with anxiety. Today, we discuss the physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of anxiety in our children, as well as how we can help. Last week, we talked about the difference between stress, anxiety, and perfectionism, how they all feed into each other, and…