If your child has a learning disability or struggles with ADHD or autism. Then unschooling may be a good fit for your child’s learning style.
I am excited to interview Julie, from Julie Naturally, as she shares her journey of navigating the homeschool world with kids who have a number of learning differences. She shares how she landed on the best way to teach them. So she can maximize their learning in a way that fits their learning abilities.
Julie is a homeschool mom of 4 and host of the Crunchy Christian Podcast I love to hear stories of how people overcome difficult circumstances. The common theme in all of these stories is the incredible mom who decided to not accept the status quo.
Julie is definitely a mom who decided to forge her own path, and I am excited for her to share her story with us.
Remember, this is just a brief summary of the interview. You definitely want to listen to it to hear her whole story.
Unschooling for 20 Years
Twenty years is a long-time to do anything, and Julie has been a homeschooling mom for this long. Most of her kids are adults now, but she still has two teenagers.
Along with being a homeschool mom, she is an author, podcaster, speaker, master herbalist, and aroma therapist. Needless to say, she is one busy mom. Oh and she is in graduate school. She continues to be a life-long learner.
Unschooling and Working on Her Own Terms
Julie has always questioned the status quo. And when it came to teaching her kids, it wasn’t any different. After working at preschools, she knew her kids would never attend one. She knew she could do it herself.
After reading about homeschooling, and not liking her own schooling experience. They decided that homeschooling was the right fit for their family.
Since her kids have diagnoses of Asperger’s, ADD, dyslexia, and more. She needed to find something that would work for her kids.
Listen to the full episode to find out how she applied unschooling to their learning styles.
We Homeschool to Tailor Learning for Our Kids
Unschooling doesn’t mean you throw out all the books. While traditional textbooks may not be used, Julie says it is all about using living books and providing a foundation of excellent resources. The original idea of unschooling is basically taking the school out of the learning process.
The child is the one taking more of the lead in learning. When it comes to learning, it more about working with your kids on what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, when they want to learn it, and letting them take the lead in this way.
It is acknowledging developmental differences. And allowing them to develop more authentic projects and meaningful experiences for them. That is a lot of living books, real projects, and experiments. Such as building with carpentry tools, writing books, and coding games.
Listen to the full episode to learn more.
Conclusion: Unschooling to Meet Your Child’s Learning Needs
Julie shares openly about the mistakes and what she learned when it came to teaching the basics such as reading. She really learned to listen to her children to understand what they were ready for.
Listen to the episode as she shares the bucket full of diagnoses that they have received. She wanted to know how to help her kids, so she could adapt the teaching and learning to them.
There are so many emotions that moms experience when they think or receive a learning diagnosis. Julie share how to navigate through all these emotions as an expert mom.
Listen to the full episode to hear her whole story.
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