{"id":1062,"date":"2021-01-19T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2021-02-13T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:13:46","slug":"41-educating-your-children-at-home-with-carina-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/01\/19\/41-educating-your-children-at-home-with-carina-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"41. Educating your children at home with Carina Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

How might parents best support their children\u2019s learning when in virtual school at home? Today on the show I speak with Carina Stone on her experiences educating her children at home for the past 8 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of your day job, if you are a parent of young children, chances are high that\u2013right now\u2013you are taking on being your child\u2019s teacher as their regular teacher is doing their best at educating them through a screen. While it\u2019s amazing what we educators can do through Meet or Zoom, we know that in person learning just can\u2019t be replicated through a screen. With Ontario\u2019s recent lockdowns (and for some places, continued school closures) many parents are tasked with navigating the flow of their child\u2019s day with their own work situation. To say that parents are frazzled is a remarkable understatement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to hear from a parent who has been figuring out the homeschooling \/ unschooling thing since before the pandemic. Partially because I hoped that they may have some strategies that I hadn\u2019t tried yet. But also because I just wanted to know that it is possible for parents to educate their children and not be crying at the end of every day. While I don\u2019t think that my guest today has all the answers or doesn\u2019t have the occasional cry-fest of her own, Carina Stone\u2019s caring, gentle, and attuned approach to educating her 3 boys gave me some comfort and inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this episode, we discuss how to really observe our children to notice what their learning needs are, the importance of taking mental health days, pairing down the curriculum to \u201ccut out the static\u201d, and how to find that sweet spot of just enough challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think there are some incredibly powerful takeaways in this conversation for all educators\u2013not just for those folks who are trying to educate their children at home. The first:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n