79. (S5E4) Checklist Lovers: Planning From Behind | with Jennifer Vetter
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jenniver Vetter is a brave mother of six who has been homeschooling for nine years. She has embraced the emphasis on relationship and freedom in learning that homeschooling offers, but she worries that her children also need to learn skills that don’t lend themselves as easily to fort building and play.
Jennifer asked, “How do I balance the love and creative side of learning with the nuts, bolts and rules side of learning?”
We know this is a big question in the Brave Writer community, but Julie has a few ideas for how homeschoolers can meet both of those goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the podcast is for you if you've ever asked yourself the following |
| 0:10.6 | question. How can I be sure that my kids are getting all the |
| 0:16.3 | learning and education they deserve? You know that feeling like am I homeschooling |
| 0:22.1 | enough? |
| 0:24.1 | I don't know about you, but here's what used to happen with me. |
| 0:27.3 | I'd walk into a room ready to invite all the kids to the kitchen table for math or |
| 0:32.4 | copy work or a little poetry tea time even. |
| 0:36.2 | And I would look into the family room and all five kids were happily busily engaged, not |
| 0:42.2 | squabbling, playing together nicely. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'd wonder, should I interrupt that so we could do quote unquote real school, real learning. |
| 0:53.4 | And I wrestled with it back and forth. |
| 0:55.6 | What is the balance between allowing your children |
| 0:59.6 | to explore the world and ensuring that they're getting the education they should have, the one you feel |
| 1:06.4 | responsible to deliver to them. You're in luck. Today's conversation is with Jennifer Vetter and she posed this very question to me. |
| 1:16.6 | We have a great conversation about it. She goes away for a few months and when she comes |
| 1:22.3 | back we talk about the ways she made tweaks |
| 1:25.7 | and adjustments to transform that experience into one that empowers her rather |
| 1:31.4 | than leaving her feeling bewildered or worried. |
| 1:35.0 | Also, stick around till the end. |
| 1:38.0 | When we get into the follow-up conversation, |
| 1:40.0 | Jennifer and I start trading game suggestions. |
| 1:43.0 | So if you need some good ideas of things to play with your kids, |
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