49. (S4E7) Adding Adventure, Community, & Collaboration to Your Homeschool | with Dachelle McVey
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dachelle McVey owns and operates Hide the Chocolate, a blog about homeschooling adventures, parenting, and – occasionally – hiding the chocolate! She currently homeschools her daughters, ages 10 and 12, and homeschooled her son, who is in his first year of college.
We talk about the value of collaborative learning, how you can bring both local and online communities into your homeschool, and bringing your children on literary adventures.
You can read full show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Resources:
- Check out this brand new, free product designed to kickstart your writing program this school year: 7-Day Writing Blitz (and tag your creative young writers using #BWBlitz on Twitter & Instagram!)
- You can download Free Writing Lessons here: go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons
- Want more adventure in your homeschool? Save 25% on a book club with the code “BRAVEWRITER” at www.hidethechocolate.com/book-club-landing-page
- Connect with Dachelle: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season four of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:09.0 | This season we are releasing via audio our most popular YouTube broadcasts. |
| 0:15.8 | We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio while you're running, driving |
| 0:20.3 | in the car, or folding laundry. |
| 0:23.4 | We will also sprinkle throughout this season. |
| 0:26.5 | Original content, interviews with people I think are compelling to listen to. |
| 0:31.8 | If you get a chance, please help us out by leaving a review at |
| 0:35.4 | iTunes or Stitcher or wherever you listen to Brave Writers Podcast. We really |
| 0:40.6 | appreciate it. It helps us get the word out and it also gratifies all the people behind the scenes who worked so hard to bring these to you for free. |
| 0:50.0 | And now, let's get going with this episode. |
| 0:53.2 | Today on the podcast, we get to talk with Deschel McVeigh. |
| 1:05.0 | She has retired from a lot of jobs in her lifetime. |
| 1:08.1 | Her various careers have included accounting, high school teacher, bakery owner, cake artist, writer, blogger, photography design, and now online book clubs. |
| 1:20.0 | Phew! I'm tired just thinking about it. |
| 1:22.8 | Now Deshell owns and operates, Hide the Chocolate.com, |
| 1:26.7 | a blog about homeschooling, parenting, |
| 1:29.1 | and occasionally hiding chocolate. |
| 1:31.5 | I can tell I'm going to like her already. She currently homeschooled |
| 1:34.9 | her daughters ages 10 and 12 and homeschooled her son who is in his first year of college. |
| 1:41.2 | D'Shell says blogging on Hide the Chocolate is her therapy, along with the occasional Coke Zero and a couple of |
| 1:48.4 | scoops of Nutella. |
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