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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The Power of Connecting with Your Kids in Homeschooling

If you want to have an amazing homeschool and to create an environment where your kids can thrive, building a strong relationship with them is key. Truly, you can never overdo the connection with your kids! We, as parents, can often get caught up in the academics of homeschooling and forget that we can always…

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Self-Care and Co-Regulation | Balancing Parenting and Sensory Needs

In this episode of the podcast, host Colleen Kessler is joined by Sarah Collins, an occupational therapist and homeschool mom. Together, they delve into parenting with sensory needs and challenges while homeschooling neurodivergent children. This episode aims to provide valuable insights and practical tips for parents in similar situations, recognizing the importance of self-care and…

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Activities to Strengthen Your Family Team

Your family unit is the backbone of your homeschool. There are many habits and activities that can nurture a team mentality, and it’s one of the best things you can do for yourself and your kids to be successful while building a strong, resilient, emotionally intelligent family. Contributing to the Family First, make sure that…

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Prioritizing Self-Care is Important for You and Your Kids

One of the most beautiful things about homeschooling is how we can adjust kid-to-kid and year-to-year. It’s also one of the things that messes with us as parents. It’s inevitable that when everything is functioning well, there’s another change: developmentally, emotionally, and physically, and we find ourselves reevaluating again. It can be challenging, tiring, and…

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Help Your Differently-Wired Kids Fall in Love with Reading

Studies show a child who learns to read at four and a child who learns to read at nine or ten are very often reading at the exact same level by the time they’re 16. We want our kids to not only be able to read, but to enjoy reading and be able to glean…

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Create the Best Homeschool for Your Family

Homeschooling opens up many opportunities and possibilities for our neurodiverse children. It’s a different kind of education, and it’s exciting! When you choose to open up to all the avenues of education that are possible, it can be empowering. Letting go of the fear Oftentimes, we as parents of neurodiverse kids homeschool from a…

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