Into The Wild 7. How to Homeschool and Run Your Business with Robyn Robertson
Hey you wild women!
My next guest has fifteen years of experience in education, starting as an ESL teacher before joining a private school as an admission and outreach director. Her experiences traveling while home-educating had her questioning her past beliefs around parenting, how we learn, and the education system. It also highlighted the need for community. This led her to launch her podcast Honey! I'm Homeschooling the Kids, which is a platform to share ideas, stories and information about the joys and challenges of home education and self-directed learning. The podcast also serves as a place to bring together a collective voice for change in the broader education system. Currently, she's an unschooling mom of two, podcast host, and school board trustee.
I asked Robyn to join me on Into The Wild because, during the time of the recording we have been asked to self-isolate and stay home. Because of this, we are now all homeschooling and trying to work from home.
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
- Many parents are now suddenly homeschooling and working from home
- We are all on this journey, whether we realize it or not we all make a difference in the world and why we are here is to complete that journey
- Her reason for homeschooling: To not have to stick to a schedule so that we can travel
- Our brain needs to be constantly learning in order to maintain our brain health
- Our natural curiosity become undermined as we enter the school system
- If we keep that curiosity going throughout life, we will be more confident
- Don't look to someone else to give you your meaning
- Homeschooling is like a mirror being held up to you
- You have to trust yourself
- My biggest mistake was trying to recreate school at home
- Letting your kids know that you don't know everything
- To have confident learners are a reflection between positive self-beliefs, motivation, and autonomy
- We are expecting our kids to be very independent right now, and many have never had the chance to. So we need to give them, and us parents, some grace, to be more independent
- Homeschooling also involves learning lifeskills.
Resources:
- Learn more: http://imhomeschooling.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids/
- Podcast: Honey I'm Homeschooling the Kids
Public shoutouts:
- John Holt, The Foundations Unschooling
- Project-based learning, Book
- Halifax Independent School
- Erika Christakis: The Importance of Being Little
- Julie Bogart: The Brave Learner
- Ivan Illish: The Deschooling Society
- Peter Gray: Free to Learn
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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.
She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.
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