HOMEEDVOICESPODCAST – EP 32 Naomi Fisher: Clinical Psycologist, Home Ed Parent and Author of Changing Our Minds

We now have a shared collective trauma. This is how I see the effects of trauma every day. But how do we heal and move forward from here? Share your narratives. Originally written by Kate McConaghy.

This week I'm chatting with Jay Byrd from @beanlearning. We talk about  what it's like being a second generation home educator and home education in the UK in the 90's. Jay tells us about her passion for project based learning and gentle parenting, and we talk about bean learning, which offers UK based online video groups and classes for home educated children and home educating adults. If you want to support the show there are a number of things you can do - we really want to keep the podcast advert free, but we also really want to be able to pay our guests, and with that in mind we have started a Patreon for the podcast which you can find at patreon.com/homeedvoices. Patrons will get extra stuff, like extra book chat, q and a's, etc. You can also help by rating and reviewing the show at apple podcast, as this helps more people find out about it.

This week I'm chatting with Naomi Fisher, the author of Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning. We talk about how home educated children related to their peers, the long process of deschooling, internal and external motivation, and supporting ADHD and autism in the home educating community.

There are definite barriers to home education, (needing to work outside the home to pay the bills, especially for single parent families, co-parenting with someone who refuses to support home education etc) but a lack of qualifications is not one of them. #aHillToDieOn

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here. Photo by Nikhil kumar on Unsplash This week is an audio version of the blog post “Don’t Over Plan the Fun Stuff (and What to do Instead)” which was published here on HomeEdVoices in February 2020. You can find the original post, and it’s links here. If you like this little audio blog posts then I’ll do more of them, especially in this inbetween bit where the pandemic is still making it really hard to do interviews with any sort of regularity. In other news – in case you’d like to support the podcast and blog – we have a Patreon. We’re still ironing out how it’s going to work, but it’s going to include a monthly ebook of all the blog posts of ease of reading.* More news when we’ve finalised everything. Follow HomeEdVoicesPodcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, or join the newsletter. If you have any questions or can think of someone you would like me to interview on the podcast (maybe you? Yeah, really you!), please get in touch via the comments below. If you enjoyed the podcast and know someone who might benefit from listening to a Home Education Podcast, please let them know about the Home Ed Voices Podcast. Thank you! (*because we don’t like the whole affiliate thing because we don’t like shilling for Amazon, and we’d like to keep the podcast and the blog advert free.) The post HOME ED VOICES PODCAST – (SEASON 3) EPISODE 30 Mini Episode: “DON’T OVER PLAN THE FUN STUFF, (AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD.)” appeared first on Home Ed Voices.

This blog post does not contain affiliate links because we think you should borrow books from your library if you can, or get them second hand or from where ever you personally want to buy books. Not just amazon because it might make us some money. You can read more about our affiliate policy here. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here. This week I’m chatting with Eloise Rickman from @mightymother_. We talk about her new book Extraordinary Parenting, about writing it during lockdown and about how it is a unique source of comfort and support for parents and home educators during this pandemic. GIVEAWAY! For an chance to win a copy of the book, go to our instagram @homeedvoicespodcast. (till midday 11/8/2020) Show Notes: “Read, read, read some more. If all you did for 3 months was read aloud to your kids from a range of great books, they’d thrive. Audiobooks are your friends too.” Find Eloise on instagram @mightymother_, and at her Blog (A Beautiful Childhood) at www.fridabemighty.com Follow HomeEdVoicesPodcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, or join the newsletter. If you have any questions or can think of someone you would like me to interview on the podcast (maybe you? Yeah, really you!), please get in touch via the comments below. If you enjoyed the podcast and know someone who might benefit from listening to a Home Education Podcast, please let them know about the Home Ed Voices Podcast. Thank you! The post Home Ed Voices Podcast – (Season 3) Episode 29 Eloise Rickman (@mightymother_) appeared first on Home Ed Voices.

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families.  You can find out more about the podcast here: https://www.homeedvoices.co.uk This is episode 28 and this week I’m talking to Lorna @2devonpixies_home_ed. We talked on the 17th March, as lockdown for the coronavirus was just starting, but before the school's had closed, so that colours the whole conversation. However we also talk about tuff trays, the pedagogy of 'give it a go' and Lorna brings a fantastic book list that will keep you going through these strange days.

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families. You can find out more about the podcast at https://www.homeedvoices.co.uk. This week we are trying something different and doing a deep dive into what is going on for a home ed family right now, with a Day in the Life interview.* Kate from this here website was willing to play guinea pig, given that she had already done the standard interview in episode 7 (and 25) of the podcast. (*That said, we're still doing the standard interviews that are the backbone this podcast. But they are mostly about the why of home education, and it's nice to get stuck into the how as well, so we're going a do a mixture of the two, with some special episodes added into the mix for good measure.) Part two is available immediately. You can find the shownotes for the episode at https://www.homeedvoices.co.uk/hevpep27pt1

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families. You can find out more about the podcast at https://www.homeedvoices.co.uk. This week we are trying something different and doing a deep dive into what is going on for a home ed family right now, with a Day in the Life interview.* Kate from this here website was willing to play guinea pig, given that she had already done the standard interview in episode 7 (and 25) of the podcast. (*That said, we're still doing the standard interviews that are the backbone this podcast. But they are mostly about the why of home education, and it's nice to get stuck into the how as well, so we're going a do a mixture of the two, with some special episodes added into the mix for good measure.) Part 1 is available immediately. You can find the shownotes for the episode at https://www.homeedvoices.co.uk/hevpep27pt2

The Home Ed Voices Podcast is a UK-based Home Education Podcast that profiles the lives of home ed families. You can find out more about the podcast at HomeEdVoices.co.uk. This week I am talking to Daksina, We talk about getting our heads around the idea that every education has gaps, and that is ok. We fangirl over the calming influence of Julie Bogart, and we talk all things gameschooling.