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Confident Homeschooler
If you're trying to decide whether homeschooling can work for your family but you don't have all the information you need, this course will help. You will:
For parents of preschool, kindergarten and elementary school-aged children
Confident Homeschooler
If you're trying to decide whether homeschooling can work for your family but you don't have all the information you need, this course will help. You will:
For parents of preschool, kindergarten and elementary school-aged children
Homeschooling doesn't have to be hard - for you, or for your child
Hi, I’m Jen (and that’s Carys)
After my daughter was born I was frustrated by the publicly available information on parenting and child development, which lurched from one clickbait headline to the next. I got a Master's in Psychology (focused on Child Development), and started the Your Parenting Mojo podcast to share that learning with others.
Then when I started thinking about school, I decided I needed another Master's - in Education this time. I wrote my thesis on what motivates children to learn.
By now I've produced 150+ podcast episodes (receiving a million+ downloads), 50+ expert interviews, read 4,000+ peer reviewed journal articles, and I'm also a homeschooling parent.
I had the benefit of time to make this decision - time to read; time to discuss; time to think. I created this course so you can skip all the hard work and quickly understand what's going to work for your family.
Whether you're thinking of homeschooling for a few months until schools fully reopen, or you're considering it for the long haul, I can help.
Hi, I’m Jen (and that’s Carys)
After my daughter was born I was frustrated by the publicly available information on parenting and child development, which lurched from one clickbait headline to the next. I got a Master's in Psychology (focused on Child Development), and started the Your Parenting Mojo podcast to share that learning with others.
Then when I started thinking about school, I decided I needed another Master's - in Education this time. I wrote my thesis on what motivates children to learn.
By now I've produced 150+ podcast episodes (receiving a million+ downloads), 50+ expert interviews, read 4,000+ peer reviewed journal articles, and I'm also a homeschooling parent.
I had the benefit of time to make this decision - time to read; time to discuss; time to think. I created this course so you can skip all the hard work and quickly understand what's going to work for your family.
Whether you're thinking of homeschooling for a few months until schools fully reopen, or you're considering it for the long haul, I can help.
What's inside
As soon as you sign up, you'll get immediate access to:
Six modules of short, concise videos to help you understand the key elements of homeschooling, how to choose a curriculum, and how to use your child's interests to develop their life-long love of learning. Watch them all in an evening!
Extra resources like a downloadable summary of key social and emotional learning skills, and a swipe file to create a homeschool routine that works for your family
Bonus: Audio interviews with experts on various aspects of homeschooling including teaching math, choosing curriculum, and how to navigate the early days
Bonus: Audio interviews with homeschoolers on various stages of the journey, edited so you can listen to just the topics you need: things like what they do all day, how their children are socialized, and the advice they want to pass on to you
Confidence, clarity, and inspiration to walk the learning path that's right for your child and your family
What's inside
As soon as you sign up, you'll get immediate access to:
Six modules of short, concise videos to help you understand the key elements of homeschooling, how to choose a curriculum, and how to use your child's interests to develop their life-long love of learning. Watch them all in an evening!
Extra resources like a downloadable summary of key social and emotional learning skills, and a swipe file to create a homeschool routine that works for your family
Bonus: Audio interviews with experts on various aspects of homeschooling including teaching math, choosing curriculum, and how to navigate the early days
Bonus: Audio interviews with homeschoolers on various stages of the journey, edited so you can listen to just the topics you need: things like what they do all day, how their children are socialized, and the advice they want to pass on to you
Confidence, clarity, and inspiration to walk the learning path that's right for your child and your family
Decide whether homeschooling is right
for your child and your family
Decide whether homeschooling is right for your child and your family
What it means to be research-based at
Your Parenting Mojo
I hear you! That’s why I took all the best bits of a much longer course that thousands of parents have taken over the last few years and distilled it so you can watch the core videos or read the transcripts in just an evening or two. But if you need it, there are also interviews with experts as well as conversations with over 20 homeschooling families.
And I’m not just going to toss those 20 interviews over to you and say “Enjoy!” - I edited them so you can hear just the most useful ideas the parents had to say about topics like socialization and what advice they would like to pass on to you, so you can listen in to exactly what you need. (One parent who has already taken the course reached out and told me this approach was “brilliant.”)
Funny thing is - I didn’t think I was either. I had gone through school; that approach was the only way I knew. I couldn’t imagine ‘being a teacher.’
But the awesome thing about homeschooling is that you don’t have to ‘be a teacher’ to do it.
I mean, you can, if you want to. You can pick a curriculum (in the course you’ll hear my interview with the expert who literally wrote the book on how to choose curricula) and I’ll give you some hints on how to get your child to do the work if you decide to take that approach.
But the real beauty of homeschooling comes in ditching the curriculum and following your child’s interests into deep learning that will build on and develop their passions.
Parents often wonder whether their child will suddenly refuse to do school work when they go back to school if you use this method of learning. Or if they’ll ever be able to study for a test, or write a paper or do anything they don’t want to do.
And the answer is: they certainly will, when they see the value of the goal at the other end. Then they’ll be all in.
There are a lot of variables here. You could certainly get a curriculum and complete the required number of pages each day and know that your child is ‘on track’ to reenter school when that’s possible (although you’re likely to face the same problems that come up with Zoom-school, because it puts you in the role of being The Enforcer).
We also have to consider that a lot of children are not going to be ‘on track’ over the next couple of years, so the definitions of ‘on track’ and ‘behind’ are going to be very different than they are in normal years.
Finally, we should consider that by homeschooling, we have the opportunity to develop skills like confidence and critical thinking and creative innovation that they wouldn’t get even if they were in school - so you could think of it as your child getting ‘ahead.’
Six modules of content, presented in short videos that you can binge-watch in an evening or two and get all the research-backed information. But if you need more...I got you!
You also get to hear from the person who wrote the book on how to choose homeschooling curricula to help you make your decision. You'll learn how to teach math from a master math tutor, in a way that makes it approachable even if you hate/'can't do' math. And you'll learn about unschooling from one of the master practitioners in the field.
On top of this, you'll hear from families who are homeschooling and who want to share ideas about what they do all day, how they earn a living, and what advice they have for newbie homeschoolers. Watch just the videos and get what you need quickly, or dive deeper where you need more support. Choose the resources you need to feel confident in your decision!
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or your child and your family
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