# Julie Bogart

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357. Picture Books and the Public Library

What if one of the best tools in your homeschool is already free? We’re celebrating the library as a place where curiosity gets to roam and the default answer can be “yes.” We explore how browsing the stacks creates discoveries no search bar can replicate, why learning the Dewey Decimal System can …

Building a Joyful Home: My Go-To Books for Parenting (And Homeschooling!) Differently Wired Kids

This week, I took a detour from my usual “what I’m reading” updates to talk about homeschooling: the messy, creative, deeply imperfect way we’ve done it for thirteen years now. I’ve been getting a lot of questions from others who are homeschooling, or thinking about it, and it felt like the right …

358. Don’t Forget to Watch Movies!

What if movie day isn’t a break from learning, but one of the ways we build a rich education? Movies give our kids stories, language, history, cultural references, and characters they can return to again and again. We talk about why rewatching counts, how film can make Shakespeare and Jane Austen m…

EU418: When Teachers Become Unschoolers

Pam and Anna interviewed three former teachers who are all unschooling parents and members of the Living Joyfully Network. Erika Ellis, Jen Hollis, and Michelle Kren shared their experiences becoming teachers as well as their thought processes as they chose unschooling for their own famil…

How do we teach kids to think critically in a world full of misinformation?

Send us Fan Mail As parents, many of us want our children to do well in school, but what if one of the most important skills they need is not memorizing information, but learning how to question it? In this episode, you and I reflect on what it means to raise critical thinkers in a world filled wit…

359. The Rights of a Homeschooling Mom

What rights do we forget we have when homeschooling becomes an all-consuming family project? Staying home to educate our kids can be meaningful, joyful work, but it is still work. We deserve a voice in family finances, time to maintain employable skills, space for lesson preparation, personal inter…

Raising Lifelong Learners

**Raising Lifelong Learners**What does it actually take to raise a child who loves to learn — not just forthe test, but for life?In this episode, Gabby sits down with two veteran educators (and moms!): Katie Bach, a fellow teacher who leads the Faithful Scholars umbrella school in South Carolina an…

Season 3 Episode 3: Life is Learning: Katie Doughty on Service Learning and Letting Go of School at Home

One December, Katie Doughty set aside math, language arts, writing, and everything else on the schedule for almost three weeks. Her kids came out of it with about 50 comfort kits for people experiencing homelessness, and Katie came out of it seeing learning differently. In this episode, I chat with…

Ep. 65 – How Do Children Learn To Read Without School? with Elizabeth Schroder

How long does it actually take a child to learn to read when they aren't learning to read at school? Reading is one of the areas where homeschool parents can carry the most worry, especially when a child's timeline looks different from what we see in school. Earlier this year, families inside the…

360. Your Weekly Schedule Designed for You!

What if the thing standing between us and a satisfying homeschool rhythm isn’t the curriculum, but our resistance to sitting down and making a plan? We’re looking at how attention, boredom, confusion, and even our phones shape the way we approach learning. Then we get practical, building a flexible…