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The BIG Home Ed Conversations
The BIG Home Ed Conversations
The BIG Home Ed Conversations is one of the top active 'home education' podcast for parents who want to move past the myths and dive deep into what we actually want to talk about as alternative educators. Join Kelly (home ed mum of 2 and home education coach & mentor) and Ashley (ex-primary teacher & home ed mum of 3) as they debunk myths, tackle real challenges, and share honest, empowering, mindset-shifting conversations for families choosing alternative education.
March 30, 2025

Trust the process

Trust the process
Trust the process
The BIG Home Ed Conversations
Trust the process

Welcome back for Season 3 of The Big Home Ed Conversations. Kelly Rigg, Founder of Offroading Motherhood and Ashley Vanerio, fellow home educator and mum of 3 discuss the struggle that is trusting the process, believing all will come right in the end when we have spent our lives being told what success looks like and how many different ways we can 'fail'. Home education is an opportunity to love learning as a process, but we need to know when to tend to that learning and when to let it go wild.

Keywords: Homeschooling, Home Education, Education Otherwise, Learning skills, Teaching, Development, Primary Education, Parenting, Parenting Young Children, Parenting Teens, Child Mental Health, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation.

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