Virtual Kitchen Table

By Erin

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We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We’ll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you’ll pull a chair up to the table and join us.

Episode Date
Episode 61: How to Answer Common Homeschool Questions - Honest Talk and Deciding When to Say What, Part 2
Oct 21, 2026
Episode 61: How to Answer Common Homeschool Questions - Honest Talk and Deciding When to Say What, Part 1
Sep 26, 2026
Episode 60: How Do Unschoolers Learn to Read? Does Reading Need to Be Explicitly Taught?
Aug 18, 2026
Episode 59: What is Unschooling? Part 3: Myths and Misconceptions, Continued
Aug 05, 2026
Episode 58: What is Unschooling? Part 3: Myths and Misconceptions
Jul 15, 2026
Episode 57: What is Unschooling, Part 2: What Unschooling Looks Like
Jul 02, 2026
What is Unschooling, Part 1: A Framework of Ideas
Jun 07, 2026
Episode 55: Young People Often Do Know What They Don’t Know
May 18, 2026
Episode 54: Parents Can’t Teach Their Children Everything and That’s Okay
Apr 29, 2026
Episode 53: The Strength of Stories – Our Own and Our Children’s
Apr 14, 2026
Episode 52: Does Teaching Have a Place in Self-Directed Education or Unschooling?
Mar 18, 2026
Episode 51: Nervous System Health and Self-Compassion, Our Own and Our Children’s
Mar 03, 2026
Episode 50: My Journey to Taking a Kinder Path – In Honour of Hayley
Feb 16, 2026
Episode 49: Resentment – Our Feelings Toward Other Homeschool Parents, our Spouses and Children, and How We Can Move Through Them
Jan 12, 2026
Episode 48: Taking a Kinder Path to the Holiday Season – Planning Together with our Kids
Nov 19, 2025
Episode 47: The Way Children Learn: Living a Life that Supports All Kinds of Learning
Nov 06, 2025
Episode 46: The Imagination we Lack When it Comes to Education: The Kindergarten Years
Oct 22, 2025
Episode 46: High School Diplomas, College Degrees and Future Careers: Is There More Than One Way?
Sep 27, 2025
Episode 45: How to Begin Homeschooling: Getting Into the Swing of Things Whether New to it or Continuing
Sep 08, 2025
Episode 44: Nature Study, Time Outdoors and Taking the Pressure off of Ourselves and our Children
Sep 01, 2025
Episode 43: Financially Accessible Homeschooling – How Do We Offer our Children an Abundant Life?
Jun 23, 2025
Episode #42: What to Do When We Feel Like a Rubbish Parent: 13 Steps to Dealing with Parenting Doubt
Jun 02, 2025
Episode 41: Creative Kids, Creative Parents
May 19, 2025
Episode 40: Feel Like a Rubbish Parent? 9 Things to Remember When You Doubt Your Parenting
May 12, 2025
Episode 39 - The Places, the People and Coming Home to Ourselves
Apr 28, 2025
Episode 38: More Unschooling Math/s – What Does Learning Mathematics Naturally Look Like
Apr 14, 2025
Episode 37: Nurturing our Well-Being Through Creative Practices
Mar 19, 2025
Episode 36: Unschooling Math – What Does Learning Math/s Naturally Look Like?
Mar 06, 2025
Episode 35: More about the Value of Online Community – Virtual Friendships are Real Friendships
Feb 12, 2025
Episode 34: The Value of Online Community
Feb 01, 2025
Episode 33: Gently Easing into the New Year for Parents and Kids
Dec 28, 2024
Episode 32: Being Intentional about the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families
Dec 01, 2024
Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery – Part 2
Nov 25, 2024
Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery
Nov 13, 2024
Episode 30: The Rich Experience of Unschooling Science
Oct 22, 2024
Episode 29: Practical Ideas for Building and Contributing to Community
Oct 01, 2024
Episode 28: Virtual Kitchen Table: Spot the Learning! How Our Children are Learning More Than We Might Think
Sep 17, 2024
Episode 27: What is Strewing? Peeling Back the Layers of Intention, Connection and Practice
Sep 03, 2024
Episode 26: Fear of Missing Out
Aug 19, 2024
Episode 25: Self-Directed Learning Beyond Academics
May 06, 2024
Episode 24: Embracing Midlife with an Unschooling Mindset
Apr 25, 2024
Episode 23: Living Authentically, Confidently and Intentionally – a Conversation About How We Show Up in Our Lives, with Teresa Wiedrick 
Mar 30, 2024
Episode 22: Does Homeschooling our Children Shape our Identity?
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 21: Emotional Labour
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 20: Deschooling Imperfectly – The Beauty of Intention
Jan 28, 2024
Episode 19: Home Ed Labels and Jargon: Sorting Them Through
Jan 08, 2024
Episode 18: What is Unschooling and How Does it Work? 
Dec 02, 2023
Episode 17: Being Intentional about the Holidays - Ideas for Thoughtful Families
Nov 18, 2023
Episode 16: Lists or Not – How Do We and Those We Love Keep Organized?
Nov 03, 2023
Episode 15: Homeschool Community – Finding, Sustaining and How it Evolves
Aug 13, 2023
Episode 14: Kids and Screens, Pondering Digital Tech From a Few Angles – Part Two
Jul 27, 2023
Episode #14: Kids and Screens, Pondering Digital Tech From a Few Angles- Part One
Jul 15, 2023
Episode #13: Socialization and Homeschooling, Exploring it from Different Angles: Part Two
Jul 01, 2023
Episode #13: Socialization and Homeschooling: Exploring it from Different Angles – Part One
Jun 17, 2023
Episode #12: Perspectives on Self-care – For Our Children, For Ourselves
Jun 02, 2023
Episode #11: How Much Novelty Do Our Kids Need? (Maybe)
May 16, 2023
Episode #10: Home Ed on the Move – Exploring a Wandering Lifestyle with Alice Griffin
Apr 26, 2023
Episode #9: Deschooling Through the Lens of The Unschool Challenge - Part Two
Apr 14, 2023
Episode #9: Deschooling Through the Lens of The Unschool Challenge - Part One
Mar 29, 2023
Episode #8: Do We Deserve Joy? Unpacking Perspectives of Joy in Home Education
Mar 12, 2023
Episode #7: Beginning Unschooling During a Pandemic: Part Two
Feb 15, 2023
Episode #7: Beginning Unschooling During a Pandemic: Part One
Jan 23, 2023
Episode #6: The State of Flow in Learning
Jan 16, 2023
Episode #5: Kindness and Unconditional Love – What do they have to do with Unschooling? Part 2
Nov 30, 2022
Episode #5: Kindness and Unconditional Love – What do they have to do with Unschooling? Part 1
Nov 16, 2022
Episode #4: Home Education During Transition and Difficult Times
Nov 02, 2022
Episode #3: Choice in Education – Living and Learning in Community
Oct 19, 2022
Episode #2: Unschooling A-ha Moments
Oct 04, 2022
Episode #1: What do our Unschooling Days Look Like? Part 2
Sep 19, 2022
Episode #1: What Do Our Unschooling Days Look Like Part 1
Sep 15, 2022