i can’t agree with your episode on math. learning math doesn’t have to be hard. just small bits daily. there are fun math songs to memorize facts. fun games also. this it’s important for kids so they don’t have to spend a ton of time calculating/figuring things out. and so they are not dependent on devices. i get your angle but i’m concerned you’re not giving mamas enough true reality. especially for kids who want to go to college and will be lost in the required math class because they never intentionally learned any formal math

Suuueee! You’re an inspiration. Thank you for relieving so many parenting stressors and education anxiety. We either needed to bend over backwards to get on some competitive list for private Christian preschools or choose the perfect curriculum after sifting through many different ones that all seemed to be missing something. My husband found you and we binged everything you have shared. What I love most is the practical motherhood advice you share like smelling our babies to calm our nervous system or treat your kids eating habits the same way you would a guest. It would be an honor to also hear from your kids..about Their perspective and how they're thriving in life now. Thank you for doing what you're doing. So cool.

Like my second-born is teaching himself piano by just looking up songs he likes on YouTube.. it's not even one specific channel that I can list and say "we are using this channel to learn piano"

I'm going to talk to one of the counselors there and see what they say, it could just be that they want something/anything specific mentioned and that's enough. But if not, yea I would have to look for something else, if there are other umbrella academies. I think my fear has been that they will see through the jargon and be like "this is not sequential learning" and then I won't be able to fully explain that there is sequential learning happening. And the other piece too is that I don't hover over them closely, they have a huge amount of freedom but there is fruit from that way of operating. The challenge of it is that I can't explain what their brains are learning, I just know that they are.

Hi Sue. I just have, I don't know, a quick question. I have four kids. I've kind of believed in unschooling, very relaxed homeschooling to unschooling. And I have one son, he's 11. I just don't know what to do with him. I've decided that maybe we need to stop the schooling aspect. Um, no more math, maybe no more geography and all that. Um, I'm just concerned that he seems aimless. He doesn't really seem to have any interests, and he is someone that I'm afraid is super lazy, and I just don't know what to do with him. But um, we have a good relationship. I don't want to destroy it, but he's always fighting anytime we do any type of school. He doesn't do his chores well, he throws a fit. I really just don't know what to do with him. He's my first boy, and I just I don't know, I'm at a loss. So any wisdom would be great. Thank you.

Hi Sue, my name is Rebecca and I just wanted to say I’m so thankful for your podcast it has helped relieve a lot of my fears around unschooling, which I came to gradually. I started out on a pretty traditional homeschooling path with my 3 kids and would sit with them and the books from 9-5pm every day! We got unexpectedly pregnant with our fourth baby and thing started to “go off the rails” for a few years! In that time I realized I couldn’t sustain that rhythm and I didn’t want to. I could see how much they were learning all the time when I wasn’t constantly forcing structure. But I do have two things I want to know a little more about: 1) the transition through college/young adult age and what that is like, and 2) if the learning becomes more hidden as they hit the teen years, how do you turn it into transcripts and “course” information that you register with the state? What is that interaction like on an official level?

I understand this intellectually, but in actuality? I don’t know what to do with myself. my autistic, Pda, adhd son hates anything remotely looking like a formal academic lesson. So give those up. Okay. My son has never gone to formal school. We have homeschooled always. But his dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, executive dysfunction, etc., give me pause to fully step away from any kind of explicit help in those areas. And I still don't know what to do with MYSELF all day everyday... 🤪 This may not be the kind of feed back you are looking for... 😊