82. (S5E7) Finding Balance in High School | with Karen Goldstein
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Karen Goldstein and her son Elijah are struggling with the difficult transition into high school. It can be a challenge to fit in the oftentimes-rigorous high school work while still allowing breathing room for a laid-back, enjoyable lifestyle – and holding on to the love of learning throughout it all!
“More subjects leaves less time for in-depth exploration, field trips, time in nature, rabbit trails, and down time. I miss that. There is only so much time in a given day. We are both working harder than ever,” Karen says. “Working hard isn't a bad thing but I am wondering how to make high school feel smoother?”
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| 0:00.0 | When my oldest child Noah was in junior high, an unfamiliar panic swept over me, I had only ever homeschooled to that point, but as I was staring |
| 0:16.8 | high school full in the face, I suddenly doubted everything I had learned and everything I had done. I wondered, do I have what it |
| 0:26.7 | takes to homeschool him all the way through high school? After all, I was terrible at math. My own high school math career was famously poor. |
| 0:37.0 | I wondered if I could provide him with the foreign language instruction that was required to get into college. |
| 0:45.0 | And I worried that perhaps my style of home educating |
| 0:48.8 | wasn't really preparing him for due dates and grades |
| 0:52.2 | and the pressures associated with college. |
| 0:55.9 | So I found myself at this critical juncture called the re-uping moment. |
| 1:01.7 | We had built this beautiful homeschool together that was filled with |
| 1:04.9 | joy and activity and deep dives into learning. But what about all those pesky |
| 1:11.1 | credits? How would I incorporate those into his life? all those |
| 1:14.1 | into his life. |
| 1:15.8 | Today's guest, |
| 1:17.2 | Karen Goldstein presents us with this exact dilemma |
| 1:20.9 | and she is such a delight to talk to. |
| 1:24.1 | Karen's got a lot of insight into what it takes to create a great life of |
| 1:29.8 | learning for her teen, but she's also being nagged by those same doubts. What about? |
| 1:37.1 | What about? So that's what we're going to talk about today. Can't wait for you to |
| 1:41.3 | join me on this season's episode 7 of the podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | Welcome to today's episode of the Brave Rider Podcast. |
| 1:54.0 | With me today is Karen Goldstein, a homeschooling mother to her 15 year old son, Eliza. |
| 2:01.0 | They live in Northern California with their poodle named after the amazing poet Rumi. |
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