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339. Facing Our Limits as Parent Educators

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

Arts, Kids & Family, Education, Books, Education For Kids

4.8927 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to prepare our children for a future we can’t predict?

In this episode, we reflect on homeschooling, parenting, adult children, and the tender reality of endings. We talk about why “success” may be the wrong measure for family life, how love becomes the truest through-line, and why our kids’ adult reflections deserve to be heard without defensiveness. From changing job markets and AI uncertainty to theater outings, cancer treatment, and raisin bread metaphors, we explore how to keep relationship at the center.

Join us as we make room for love, complexity, feedback, and joy.

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0:50.2

Hello, Melissa. Welcome back to the Brave Rider podcast.

0:53.8

Hi, Julie. Good to see you. Good to see you. This is the podcast that. What does it do? It provides professional development for parent educators. Thank you. I love that. That's exactly it. I love that you came up with that, Julie, because I love that we're thinking our way through

1:12.0

what this role is, this practice that we all embraced of becoming parent educators. It's unique.

1:19.9

Yes, and honestly, it's under attack pretty much everywhere. Whenever I go online, there's somebody

1:25.9

who makes some, you know, unilateral statement

1:29.0

saying that there is absolutely no way any single parent in the entire universe has the capacity

1:35.4

to teach a child, anything. Only trained teachers can teach them. And of course, we have evidence

1:42.2

that that's not true. It's so wild to me. I feel like those were the

1:45.6

conversations we were having in like 2002. Or 1990, honestly. And what is strange to me is that we have the

1:55.0

evidence. Like, it's not like homeschooling just started last year. People have been doing it for 50 years. Universities

2:02.2

literally have criteria for how homeschooled students can apply to go to college. If they're

2:07.9

failing so hard, why are they admitting anyone to college? That's right. That's right. When my

2:14.1

daughter, when my oldest applied to Cal Poly, which is a tough school to get into,

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