Podcast - Raising Lifelong Learners

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 Episode Three - Gina Munsey - Stapled to a Cheetah - Keeping Up With a Profoundly Gifted Kiddo

RLL 03 Gina Munsey: Keeping Up With a Profoundly Gifted Kiddo

Do you ever feel like you’re barely keeping up with your child’s learning? Like you could keep throwing materials, supplies, and activities at him or her all day long, and it would never be enough? That’s what it feels like to be raising an insatiable learner like a profoundly gifted kiddo. As today’s guest,…

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Raising Lifelong Learners Podcast Episode Two - Diving Down Rabbit Holes and Following Kids Interests

RLL 02 Caitlin Curley: Diving Down Rabbit Holes and Following Kids’ Interests

Diving down rabbit holes with your kiddos can lead to some pretty amazing learning and fun adventures. In this epsiode, Cait Curley shares some of the ways she embraces learning adventures with her kids, and how she cultivates their curiosity while buildng a family culture around a lifelong love of learning. Links and…

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Raising Lifelong Learners Podcast Episode One - What Does it Mean to be a Lifelong Learner?

RLL 01 Colleen Kessler: What Does it Mean to be a Lifelong Learner?

What does it even mean to be a lifelong learner? How do we, as parents, cultivate a love of learning and curiosity in our kids? In this — the inaugural episode of the Raising Lifelong Learners podcast — we’ll chat about exactly that, and you’ll hear from the little learners themselves. Links and…

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