#21 Life and Learning as an Autonomously Educated Person

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Tamsyn Fortune-Wood joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her experiences as an unschooled person.

We discuss:

· Making the decision to Home Educate her own children and ditching those school registration forms in the bin 3:00

· What are the most common questions that Tamsyn is asked when people find out that she was home educated 7:00

· A listener question is answered: What did learning look like for you, including how it changed as you grew up? 9:40

· The experience of structured work and taking exams after being autonomously educated 12:30

· Reflections on interests and life in the former years and any correlations between her life choices now 14:00

· A listener question is answered: How do you feel about the choices your parents made for you? 16:30

· Considering what life would have been like had school been part of childhood 18:00

· How we both respond to our children if/when they are curious about school 20:00

· What Tamsyn thinks she may do differently with her own children 30:00

· A listener question is answered: What are your relationships like between you and your siblings? 33:10

· How home education has influenced and formed a world view 35:00

· What parents really need to know about home education and unschooling 37:30

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