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Ep. 36: Travel with Kids, part 3

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Tsh continues her chat with Stephanie Langford on extended travel with kids (head to episode 34 for part 1; 35 for part 2). They've both traveled around the world with their families, and love seeing likeminded families getting out the front door. In this episode, they about education—worldschooling the kids and taking school on the road. They talk about what they did with their kids—what worked, what didn’t, their constant nagging concern we weren’t doing enough, and the surprising results in the end. Head here for the show notes! Big thanks to this episode’s sponsor, Casper. They create an obsessively-engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Try it for 100 nights risk-free in your own home with free shipping and returns to the US and Canada, and get $50 toward any mattress purchase by heading here and using the promo code SIMPLE.

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0:00.0

It's The Simple Show. You've got episode 36.

0:04.6

Hey, I'm Tish Oxen Rider, and I'm a family-oriented writer, traveler, and entrepreneur,

0:08.8

and you can find me on Twitter at Tish. That's T-SH, on Instagram at TishOxonRider,

0:13.6

or find the blog at the art of simple.net.

0:17.7

In this episode, I am continuing my chat with Stephanie Langford about extended travel with kids.

0:22.9

If you haven't yet heard episodes 34 and 35, you might want to go ahead and listen to those first

0:28.1

before then diving into this one, because this is part three of four as a special edition series.

0:34.4

We talked about the why of extended travel with kids in episode 34, and in 35, we talked about the how of packing and planning.

0:43.1

In this episode, number 36, we're talking about the kids schooling. If you've got school-age kids,

0:49.6

this is a huge thing, because if you're not prepared to world school, you can't really travel

0:54.0

extendedly with them. Everyone has a different philosophy of education from

0:58.5

unschooling all the way to traditional public school and we're not really

1:02.8

getting into that in this chat lots of location independent families use all

1:07.4

sorts of methods of learning from winging it and using wherever you are as a learning

1:12.0

opportunity, all the way to registering with a school from your home base and doing whatever it is

1:17.4

they give you. There's no one right way to do this, in other words. So here, Stephanie and I talked

1:23.6

about what we did. That's what we're experts on, after all, our own experience and what

1:28.8

works well for our family cultures. So take notes on what we did, but translate it to what

1:34.0

works best for your family and your family culture. Spoiler alert, the kids' educational experience

1:40.5

is seriously one of the best reasons to do this sort of travel with kids and to not wait

1:45.6

until they leave the nest. The lessons learned while on the road, climbing famous landmarks,

1:51.8

standing on historically significant places, and seeing unparalleled nature and works of art

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