Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom with Kerry McDonald • 206
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- How school suppresses a child’s natural learning.
- Myths about literacy and teaching children young.
- Better ways to help a child learn literacy, numeracy and socialization.
While I’m raising my own child, I’m also healing my own inner child.
One thing I’ve realized is that so many of the things I’m learning about raising him… like communication, how to teach him, how he learns… are also relevant to how I deal with my own inner child.
The way I speak to myself is so similar to how I should speak to him. Connecting through emotions before logic. Letting curiosity lead.
Even if you’re not planning on having children, there’s a wealth of info on how to care for yourself. Healing your inner child is all about re-parenting yourself.
So today we’re going to be talking about how to foster skills that are actually helpful in the age we’re living in - whether you’re teaching these skills to your real child, or your inner child.
Our guest today is Kerry McDonald, author of multiple books, including: Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom.
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| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 2006. |
| 0:33.0 | Today's episode is all about raising curious, well-educated children outside the conventional classroom. |
| 0:39.0 | Whether your kids are in school or not in school that it's ultimately a parent's |
| 0:44.5 | responsibility to make sure their kids are getting the best education |
| 0:48.1 | possible. With unschooling or more of these self-directed approaches to education. |
| 0:53.4 | I think the key, for example, when you have little kids and young children is just to support |
| 0:58.4 | their natural curiosity. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, they're so eager to learn, they're always asking questions, they're always asking why, |
| 1:05.7 | they just absorb their environment. |
| 1:08.5 | And so the key is really just to provide those resources and opportunities for learning and discovery. |
| 1:15.0 | And then that natural zest for learning really just continue |
| 1:19.8 | through later childhood and adolescence. |
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