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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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RLL #85: Homeschooling Plans for 2020/2021
As another fall arrives, it is probably time for most of us to review our homeschooling plans (even if they are flexible plans) for our gifted and intense children. No matter how you choose to homeschool your kiddos, some decisions probably need to be made soon to start your year off right. Listen as Colleen…
RLL #84: Exploring Education and Executive Function with Seth Perler
Does your differently-wired child struggle with getting things done or remembering the steps necessary to accomplish a task? These are some of what is called executive function skills. The official definition of executive function is a set of processes that have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. …
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RLL #83: [Audioblog] Socialization and Your Gifted or Intense Child
As homeschooling parents of these intense, quirky, brilliant kiddos, we are often asked about socialization. It doesn’t seem much of a problem when these kiddos are constantly sharing their latest discovery or talking about subjects of interest at length with us, and overall getting along just fine with us here at home. Where it can…
RLL #82: Celebrating Books with Mary Wilson
Can you imagine having a guide to infuse fun into your homeschooling and make literary discussions come alive every month? Today, Colleen chats with Mary Wilson about “found” poetry, book/movie matchups and the possibility of great adventures with book clubs! Mary’s “Celebrate a Book” guides can help create family-friendly gatherings that bring whimsy…
RLL #81: [Audioblog] Managing Perfectionism: 10 Tips for Helping Your Child
Perfectionism often goes hand in hand with the strengths of our gifted and twice-exceptional kids. After all, they tend to excel when they’re young and we naturally reward achievement. But when they start to struggle with perfectionism, we need to have tools to help them manage it. Listen as Colleen shares an audioblog — an…
RLL #80: Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? with Blake Boles
We speak a lot around here about lifelong learning, that self-motivated pursuit of knowledge not based on a required set of circumstances but learning for its own sake. When our kids are younger, they usually seem pretty content to follow our lead in how to do this. But as our guest today explains, once…