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EU213 Flashback: Unschooling and Math with Marcella O’Brien

October 6, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

This week, I’m sharing a popular episode from early 2020 with unschooling mom Marcella O’Brien. Marcella’s grown sons, Jack and Sean, have also joined me in Growing Up Unschooling episode 181. Marcella’s experience as a public school teacher and math tutor gives her a unique perspective, which led to an interesting conversation about math in […]

EU239 Flashback: Unschooling Dads with Roop Bhadury

September 29, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

This week, I’m sharing a fun conversation I had with unschooling dad Roop Bhadury. I connected with Roop through his wife Susan, who is a member of the Living Joyfully Network. She has also joined me on the podcast in episode 220. Roop and Susan live with their now three young children in Australia. It […]

EU119 Flashback: Gaming and Growing Up Unschooling with Xander MacSwan

September 22, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

I get so many questions about “screen time” and video games and how they fit into an unschooling life, so I thought it might be helpful and fun to reshare a conversation I had with Xander MacSwan in 2018. Xander left school in the 5th grade when his parents—both professors in the University of Maryland’s […]

EU111 Flashback: Ten Questions with Jan Fortune

September 15, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

This week, I’m sharing a conversation I had with Jan Fortune back in 2018. Jan home educated her four children in the UK and wrote many articles and five books on unschooling and parenting. Her book Winning Parent, Winning Child, focuses on living with children in ways that respect their autonomy. In our conversation, Jan shares […]

EU207 Flashback: Advice from Grown Unschoolers

September 8, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

It’s compilation episode time again! This week, I’m sharing one of our listener favorites from 2019, a collection of conversations with grown unschoolers in which they offer their thoughts for newer unschooling parents. I’ve woven together answers from eleven episodes featuring twelve grown unschoolers. I think you’ll find their answers helpful and enlightening wherever you […]

EU282 Flashback: Teachers Turned Unschoolers

September 1, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

This week, we’re revisiting a popular compilation episode from last year. Many people have asked me whether any former or current teachers have been interviewed on the podcast. And the answer to that question is a big YES! We have had more than 20 podcast episodes featuring guests who were or are teachers or university […]

EU333: Exploring Unschooling Q&A

August 25, 2022 By Anna Brown 2 Comments

Anna Brown and Erika Ellis join me again this week to dive into listener questions! We talk about the fears and doubts that come up at the start of the unschooling journey, the idea of wanting to measure success, and what to do when a child is interested in a topic that seems too grown […]

EU332: An Unschooling Journey with Jae Williams, Part 3

August 18, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

This week, I’m sharing the second part of my recent conversation with Jae Williams (you can listen to the first half here). Jae is a former teacher and new unschooling dad of two young children. We first spoke about a year ago, right at the start of his deschooling journey. It was great to catch […]

EU331: An Unschooling Journey with Jae Williams, Part 2

August 11, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Jae Williams is a former teacher and new unschooling dad of two young children. I first spoke to Jae when he was about two months into his unschooling journey, in episode 290. It’s been a year now and we had so much to catch up on! Jae and I talked about the inner work of […]

EU330 Bonus Episode: A Peek Inside the Living Joyfully Network

August 8, 2022 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

I’ve mentioned the Living Joyfully Network online community here and there on the podcast over the last couple of years, sometimes sharing the theme we’re exploring that month or testimonials from members. But I feel like that doesn’t actually say much about what we get up to in this rich and vibrant community. So, for […]

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