60. (S4E18) No Silver Bullet: Searching for the Perfect Homeschool Curriculum
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Julie spends a lot of time looking at the homeschooling zeitgeist, and she notices a common theme coming up every so often: the search for the one thing that’s going to magically create a flawless homeschool.
But really we shouldn’t be aiming for perfection – we should be aiming for progress!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4 of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:09.0 | This season we are releasing via audio our most popular YouTube broadcasts. |
| 0:16.0 | We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio |
| 0:19.0 | while you're running, driving in the car, or folding laundry. We will also sprinkle throughout this season |
| 0:26.7 | original content interviews with people I think are compelling to listen to. |
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| 0:36.4 | or Stitcher or wherever you listen to Brave Writers Podcast. We really 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. |
| 0:57.0 | Today I wanted to just talk about what I've noticed, you know, I kind of pay attention to the |
| 1:07.6 | zeitgeist going on in homeschooling. I've been tooling around the interwebs, |
| 1:14.0 | Facebook group, Instagram, emails, |
| 1:18.0 | and I've noticed everybody's looking for the magic pill, the silver bullet, the one thing that's going to |
| 1:27.5 | transform it all into this engine of homeschool goodness without any you know slowing down or stopping or breakdowns. |
| 1:37.8 | It's like maybe if I just collected enough wisdom in a bottle and then I sprinkled it on the heads of my children. |
| 1:47.2 | Our homeschool would be flawless. |
| 1:49.3 | Do you know what I'm talking about? |
| 1:51.2 | I've noticed for instance that people watch let's say all of my |
| 1:55.7 | YouTube's and there's over 200 videos now of me talking just like this to you but I've |
| 2:01.0 | noticed that people will have listened to and watched my |
| 2:07.1 | podcast, YouTube's, heard me on Facebook live and they build in their imagination like this utopian homeschool, which of course I want you to have. |
| 2:20.1 | I'd love you to just move to homeschool changrela and never leave. But here's the crazy thing. We all |
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