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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Future Proofing Our Kids In An Ever Changing World
This new series is all about equipping our kids for the future with a sense of wonder, adventure, joy and encouragement. Today’s topic is an introduction, all about “future proofing” our kids in an ever changing world. Throughout the course of this series, we’ll discuss child led learning and interest driven choices that we can […]
Moms With ADHD Homeschooling Children With ADHD
This series is all about homeschooling children with ADHD. Today, I’m sharing my own experience as a mom with ADHD homeschooling my own children with ADHD. This is for moms with ADHD homeschooling children with ADHD. It is not uncommon for parents of children have ADHD to confess to me that they also […]
Motivating Your Child With ADHD: 7 Tips For Your Homeschool
This series is all about homeschooling a child with ADHD. Today, we are discussing 7 of our best tips for motivating a child with ADHD. Parenting and homeschooling a child with ADHD has its own unique set of circumstances. One issue that frequently arises for kiddos with ADHD is a seeming lack of […]
Homeschooling Tips For Wiggly Kids
This series is all about homeschooling a child with ADHD. Today, we are discussing our best tips for homeschooling a child who struggles with sitting still and is often “wiggly” throughout your learning. Is This ADHD Or Is My Child Just Fidgety? When a child struggles to sit still, one of the questions […]
ADHD And Your Homeschool: An Overview
This series is all about homeschooling a child with ADHD. Today, we kick it off with an overview of ADHD, and how it impacts your child and your homeschool. If you think your child fits the characteristics of ADHD, with or without a diagnosis, it is beneficial to learn as much as you […]
A Parent’s Guide To Emotional Overexcitabilities In Gifted Children
This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, the focus is on gifted children and emotional excitabilities. Emotional overexcitability is a term that comes from Kazimier Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. There are five overexcitabilities — or OEs — each describing essentially a super sensitivity, a heightened characteristic, or intense […]