I’ve been a guest on other people’s podcasts, but I haven’t made a new episode on my own Stories of an Unschooling Family podcast for many months. But that has changed. Yesterday, I plugged my mic into my MacBook and started talking. (Unfortunately, I forgot to check my GarageBand settings, but I think the audio quality is still okay.)
What did I talk about in episode 207? Will I make more episodes? What does the title mean?
This week, I’m sharing thoughts on
- unschooling as a business
- doing things for free
- the projects I’m working on
- ageing unschoolers who might have unique skills to offer
- our superpower- unconditional love
- competing and persuading
- social media
- and lots of other things.
Show Notes
Websites
Stories of an Unschooling Family
Podcasts
Da Ladies Fixing the World podcast
Unschooling Community
Virtual Kitchen Table Community
Book
From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
Blog Posts
Why I’m Content to Be a Blogger and Not an Instagram Influencer
Do You Need to Follow an Older Unschooler? (Part 1)
Do You Need to Follow an Older Unschooler? (Part 2)
How to Write a Million Unschool Love Stories
A Genuine Invitation for Christian Unschoolers
The Problem with Being Too Nice
If You’d Like to Support My Work
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My husband Andy snapped this photo of me while we were enjoying a Saturday morning coffee.
Glad to see you back Sue! I enjoy listening to your podcast during my commute and hearing your perspective on unschooling.
We spoke briefly in the comments of some of your other blogs back in December: I’m in England and have an 18 month old who I’m excited to unschool.
Could you talk about learning to read? My husband says his only concern about unschooling our daughter is reading and it’s be great to hear some stories about how various children have learned to read in different ways that I could share with him.
Kathryn,
Oh yes, we chatted during December. I remember!
Thank you for listening to my latest podcast episode. It’s good to know someone enjoyed it.
Learning to read can seem like a huge step in children’s lives. Once they can read, the whole world opens up for them, and maybe parents sigh with relief. That skill has been conquered! I’ll think about a podcast episode based around reading. Thanks for your suggestion!
Sue,
I had some more thoughts for possible podcast topics.
1. I was listening to a virtual kitchen table podcast that you joined a long time ago and there was some conversation about the line between radical unschooling and permissive parenting and how radical unschooling isn’t permissive. I’d be interested to hear a little more on your thoughts around this as I sometimes worry that I’m being too permissive.
I’d love to hear your husband Andy’s thoughts on unschooling as a school teacher!
Kathryn,
It was good to hear from you again! Thank you for your podcast topic suggestions. Unfortunately, I only made two new episodes of my podcast before I got busy with other things. But I have made new episodes recently with the Virtual Kitchen Table and The Ladies Fixing the World podcasts.
Episode 4 of the second season of The Ladies Fixing the World will be published next weekend. Amongst other things, Cecilie, Sandra and I discuss learning to read. I remember this is a topic you’re interested in.
Have you listened to episode 80 of my podcast? It’s called Radical Unschooling. I can’t remember what I said – I haven’t listened to it for a long time – but maybe it will help with your questions about permissive parenting.
Andy was part of an early episode of my podcast, episode 7. I’ve no idea what we talked about! Apart from a few Shorts, that was the only podcast/video we ever recorded together. Andy has always been very supportive of unschooling. There are probably a couple of posts on my blog about that. Here’s one of them:
https://www.storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com/reluctant-spouse-unschool-bits-and-pieces/
I hope you find something helpful in those suggestions! 😊