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Brave Writer

65. (S4E23) The Top 10 Things to Have Done by the End of High School

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

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

4.8 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Before getting into the topic of this episode – the top 10 things to have done by the end of highschool – we want to make something clear: you can’t teach your children everything by the time they’re 18.

As a matter of fact, your education wasn’t finished when you turned 18, either!

It’s okay to save or discover some things in adulthood. And truly, life would be so much less satisfying if learning and growth just stopped when we turned 18.

Homeschooling is, as Charlotte Mason says, providing a feast of ideas and giving your children the opportunity to sample many things, while developing confidence in their own self-educating powers.

That said, there are still some things that all parents probably want to equip their children with before the end of high school – and today we’re going to talk about them!

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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.

0:31.4

If you get a chance please help us out by leaving a review at iTunes

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.

0:55.0

What are the top 10 things you think should be completed by the time your kid is 18?

1:08.0

Well, let me just start with a little backwards comment about that, and it's this you can't get it all done by the time

1:17.5

they're 18 so whatever fantasy you have laid out for yourself about homeschooling. Just know right now it won't all be finished by the time your child turns 18.

1:28.0

As a matter of fact, even your education was not finished when you turned 18. I had, for example, an English

1:38.7

teacher when I was a junior in high school who had suffered quite a tragedy at the start of the school year.

1:45.6

His fiance was actually killed in a tidal wave off the coast of California and

1:50.8

that year we did almost nothing for the whole school year in school.

1:56.9

He was my American Lint teacher, and I can remember some of the stories we read, but we hardly wrote. He did not do a good job of

2:05.1

teaching. He was checked out emotionally and you know what? I ended up falling in

2:10.7

love with American literature when I was 38.

2:14.7

And I started reading it all for myself.

2:16.8

In fact, I became obsessed with it.

2:19.4

And I learned everything I ever needed to know about American Litt at age 38 after I had already gotten a degree in history at UCLA, right?

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