Eps 491: Motivating homeschooled teens with Maren Goerss and Angela Sizer

Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

My guests today are Maren Goerss and Angela Sizer - two former school teachers who both chose homeschooling for their families (and created an awesome podcast & book about it!). We get right into it today, jumping into collaborating with your teen around their learning, lasting effects to the homeschool community post-Covid, and what to do if you don’t mesh well with the homeschool community in your area.

We hit on a lot during this episode: school refusal, “optimally” scheduled days, trusting our children to know what’s best for them, disinterested (discouraged) learners, who teens are earning their grades for, leaning into your strengths as a parent and home educator, and saying no to things that don’t matter to your family.

We wrap up this week on homeschooling our kids with learning differences or who are neurodivergent. Check out Maren and Angela’s new book, “Think Differently about Learning,” to dig in even further to Homeschool Unrefined!

Takeaways from the show

• Collaborating with your child on their education
• Finding community for homeschooled teens
• Asking kids for their opinion
• Homeschooling shifts post-Covid
• What can you do when you don’t mesh well with the homeschooling community in your area?
• “Think Differently about Learning” book
• Children deserve to be trusted & deserve authority over their choices
• What can we do with our disinterested (discouraged) teens?
• Grades - who & what are they for?
• Leaning into your strengths as a teacher
• Homeschooling kids with neurodivergence or learning differences
• Accepting our teens (and making sure they know it)

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