Description

Education starts with parents who are modeling learning. The result is people who are self-directed, passion-driven learners, who know how to think logically and can defend this truth with confidence. Becoming a life-long learner is essential to thriving as part of a homeschool family! I’m joined today on the Homeschool Loftcast by Jenny and Joel Tetzner, my parents! I am a homeschool graduate myself, and more importantly a life-long learner. This ties well into our topic of conversation today; live, breathe, and learn. Tuning into today’s episode, listeners will hear all about important aspects of life-long learning, how to instill a passion for life-long learning into your children, how to incorporate your child’s desires into your curriculum, and how learning can boost your teenagers self-confidence and self-esteem. We continue our chat with different examples, tips, and pieces of advice on how to live, breathe, and learn! 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Jenny shares an important aspect of life-long learning with listeners.
• Jenny talks about the period of time between high school and college and how her perspective on learning changed.
• How to instill a passion for life-long learning into your child; it starts when you decide to homeschool your children.
• Joel shares what life-long learning means to him; life is not static.
• How, as a parent, you can recognize your child’s unique interests and cater their learning experience towards that; giving autonomy.
• Noah goes over some examples of “things you don’t learn at school.”
• How we incorporated God-given gifts into curriculums and fostered a love for books. 
• We discuss the idea of indoctrination.
• Phrases and terms we hear in the homeschool community: educating kids in a subject you’re uncomfortable with or have no experience in. 
• How homeschooling helps to set the environment and atmosphere of learning. 
• We talk about how learning boosts self-confidence and self-esteem in children/teenagers.
• Jenny shares a critical point to remember when homeschooling!
• How we got into podcasting through Noah’s desire to learn how to podcast.
• Why getting rid of the “Almighty Teacher” mindset is so important in homeschooling. 
• We chat through mindless media and certain things that aren’t helpful to the mind. 
• We share what we are learning at this moment! 

Highlights:

“Education starts with parents who are modeling learning. The result is people who are self-directed, passion-driven learners, who know how to think logically, and can defend this truth with confidence.” — Jenny Tetzner [0:01:27]

“Life is not static!” — Joel Tetzner [0:007:45]

“God has put something special in us so that we don’t fit in, but so that we stand out!” — Jenny Tetzner [0:15:05]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

The Homeschool Loft

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

The Story of Charlotte Mason

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