Parenting

Podcasts Fare of the Free Child with Akilah Richards Fare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Indigenouse people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-Directed, decolonized living and learning. Brave Writer with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3ovKjOOr0 Cats get a bad rap and people usually have a love/hate relationship with them. However, if you are a cat in the Merryn family home, well then it is all about the love! First there was Bailey, a celebrity cat...

I think it is fair to say that our education system as we knew it is no longer good enough. Many researchers and educators have been saying this for years, but it has taken a pandemic for more eyes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywi3ianWCUI We spent some time talking to Dr. Bethany Cook, a Clinical Psychologist, Health Service Psychologist, and a Board Certified Music Therapist, about ways to take mental breaks. What started out as a conversation about mental breaks for parents, quickly...

Some of our writers are actively homeschooling their children and some of them have children in public or private schools, but pull from resources to enhance what their children are learning (especially during extended leaves from school, like summer)....

The one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown is coming up, and children have become restless. Although some of them have gone back to in-person classes, a large number of students continue to do remote learning. Most after-class activities have...

Every time the topic of remote learning comes up, I brace myself. I am never 100% sure what is going to surface. It's either; my kids hate it, they miss their friends, they are depressed, they stay in their...

Let’s talk about fertility. As little as this topic is discussed openly, we all know someone who has struggled with infertility and miscarriages (or you may have personally gone through it). According to a survey conducted by CCRM Fertility...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA7lFK_xoW4 At an early age, Julian Reeve was driven to perfection. It has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing in the form of an amazing music career, including the role of Music Director on the first National...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCOg_QVYDlg Heather Chauvin, author of Dying to Be a Good Mother, spent some time with us recently to talk about the importance of making yourself a priority. It is a hard thing to do for many moms, but for her,...