Podcast Episode #17 – Changing Educational Paths

Educating Our Kids

How do you know when it’s time to leap into the unknown and take a new educational path? Can happiness really be the touchstone we turn to when making family decisions?

Most of us grew up without the opportunity to choose our own educational path. Once on a particular path, our culture promotes commitment and follow through. “No pain, no gain.”

This paradigm makes us feel unsure when we begin to question our current situation and how it makes us feel. Sometimes we aren’t sure we can even look over all the available choices; change can be scary.

But truly, it is a gift we give our children to prioritize their happiness and offer them the chance to choose their own learning environment.

Challenge and comfort rub up against each other at the edge of growth. We often don’t trust our own intuition when things that work for others just aren’t working in our family. Stepping outside our own perspective, openly listening to our kids’ feelings, and exploring other educational environments takes bravery.

This can mean pulling our kids out of school and embracing homeschooling, because it feels better in our heart to find the best fit for our child. This can mean enrolling our kids in an amazing school when they’ve always learned from home, but it just isn’t working anymore.

It takes conscious awareness to recognize when discomfort is leading us to make changes. It takes courage to stop in the middle of a well-worn path and take a new direction.

Join me while I talk with Lianne, a parent who has consciously chosen an educational environment with her children, for a heartfelt discussion about what “exploring educational environments” looks like in a real family.

Authors

Rebecca Thompson Hitt

Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007) and Thriving Humans (Thrivinghumans.org). For over thirty years, she has walked alongside individuals, couples, and families as they find their way back into relationship with their children, with each other, and with themselves. Her approach reaches beneath behavior to the earliest experiences and nervous system patterns that shape how we connect. With gentleness, deep listening, and no pathologizing, she helps people so see themselves and the ones they love with new eyes. She offers online consultations and groups, and works with people all over the world, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time. Rebecca is the author of four books and the mother o...

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Lianne March

Lianne March graduated from Clemson University in 2003. She lives in Melbourne, Florida with her husband and 5 children. In addition to homeschooling her children, she supports other families in many areas including breastfeeding and general parenting. Lianne has been part of The Consciously Parenting Project since it began in 2007, serving behind the scenes with the website and book publishing. She has also joined Rebecca on the podcast, written for the blog, and is helping families as a Consciously Parenting Certified Holistic Family Consultant (HFC).

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