Steph and her husband not only homeschool their two boys aged 10 and 6 but also welcome a number of other children into their home with their family day care Spirited Hearts in Toowoomba.
We discuss trauma in relation to her own school wounds and her son's experience of moving in and out of the school system despite Steph knowing she wanted to homeschool before she became a mother.
SUMMARY
INSPIRATION
Free to Learn - Peter Gray
Unschooled - Kerry McDonald
The Call of the Wild + Free - Ainsley Arment
The Wild + Free Family - Ainsley Arment
Raising Critical Thinkers - Julie Bogart
(Consider asking your local library to purchase a copy if they don't currently have these books in their collection)
CONNECT
Spirited Hearts website
@spirited_hearts instagram
Spirited Hearts podcast
Have you for a story to tell?
Connect with us on instagram @australianhomeschoolstories or email australianhomeschoolstories@gmail.com
This podcast is recorded on the land of the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation. I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, always will be aboriginal land.
Original music - Hazel by Daniel Garrood @garroodcomposer
Listen on Spotify here
Steph and her husband not only homeschool their two boys aged 10 and 6 but also welcome a number of other children into their home with their family day care Spirited Hearts in Toowoomba.
We discuss trauma in relation to her own school wounds and her son's experience of moving in and out of the school system despite Steph knowing she wanted to homeschool before she became a mother.
SUMMARY
INSPIRATION
Free to Learn - Peter Gray
Unschooled - Kerry McDonald
The Call of the Wild + Free - Ainsley Arment
The Wild + Free Family - Ainsley Arment
Raising Critical Thinkers - Julie Bogart
(Consider asking your local library to purchase a copy if they don't currently have these books in their collection)
CONNECT
Spirited Hearts website
@spirited_hearts instagram
Spirited Hearts podcast
Have you for a story to tell?
Connect with us on instagram @australianhomeschoolstories or email australianhomeschoolstories@gmail.com
This podcast is recorded on the land of the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation. I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, always will be aboriginal land.
Original music - Hazel by Daniel Garrood @garroodcomposer
Listen on Spotify here