EU391: Foundations: Boundaries, Comfort Zones, and Capacity

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   20 Nov 2025 · 26 min

   EU395: Navigating All the Needs

   In this episode of Exploring Unschooling, Pam, Anna, and Erika talk about navigating all the needs in our unschooling families. Navigating all the needs can be one of the biggest puzzles of parenthood. In many cases, we’re going from only being responsible for ourselves, to then being in partnership with someone else, to then adding […]

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   6 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

   EU394: Weaving Together Neurodivergence and Unschooling with Melissa Crockett-Joyoue

   In this episode, we were so grateful to be joined by Melissa Crockett-Joyoue of the Unschooling Summit and Weave ND. Melissa shared her dramatic journey to unschooling, her experience as a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent kids, and how amazing unschooling has been for all of them. We also talked about increasing our capacity through intentional […]

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   23 Oct 2025 · 20 min

   EU393: Foundations: Every Moment is a Choice

   For this week’s episode, we’re sharing the next Foundations episode of the Living Joyfully Podcast with Pam and Anna, Every Moment is a Choice. It’s common in our culture to look at our lives in terms of “have-tos,” but staying in that space takes away our agency and our joy. By getting curious about our […]

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   9 Oct 2025 · 29 min

   EU392: Unschooling Stumbling Blocks: Strong Beliefs

   We are back with another episode in our Unschooling Stumbling Blocks series and this time, we’re talking about unschooling with strong beliefs. Sometimes our strong beliefs can be a stumbling block along our journey when we put the belief ahead of our relationships. When those moments come up in our families, it can help to […]

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   25 Sep 2025 · 58 min

   EU132 Flashback: Deschooling Two Cultures with Iris Chen

   In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation that Pam had with Iris Chen in 2018. At the time, Iris was new to unschooling her two sons in China and was writing blog posts about her experience at her website, Untigering. Pam and Iris talked about why she and her husband decided to move to China, […]

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   28 Aug 2025 · 31 min

   EU390: When School Isn’t Working

   We talk about changes you might notice in your child, about the choices that we have when it comes to living and learning, and about the value of community during that big transition away from mainstream schooling.

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   14 Aug 2025 · 58 min

   EU110FB: Unschooling Dads and Music with Alan Marshall

   In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation that Pam had with unschooling dad Alan Marshall in 2018. At the time, Alan was a professional musician and a university music professor with three kids at home. Pam and Alan talked about his family’s journey to unschooling, his eldest’s transition to junior high, ways to approach music […]

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   31 Jul 2025 · 22 min

   EU389: Foundations: Consent and Consensual Living

   For this week’s episode, we’re sharing the next Foundations episode of the Living Joyfully Podcast with Pam and Anna, Consent and Consensual Living. Consent is really the backbone of everything we talk about. Everyone, regardless of age, wants agency. When we can shift away from control, because we truly can’t control other people, we move […]

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   17 Jul 2025 · 24 min

   EU388: Bids for Connection

   Join Pam, Anna, and Erika to talk about bids for connection. John and Julie Gottman from the Gottman Institute coined the term “bids for connection” to describe many moments through our days when people in our lives try to connect with us. In our conversation, we talked about what those bids can look like (sometimes […]

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    3 Jul 2025 · 54 min

    EU286 Flashback: Connect with Courage with Roya Dedeaux

    This week, we share a conversation that Pam had with Roya Dedeaux in 2021, diving into her book, Connect with Courage. Roya is a grown unschooler, a marriage and family therapist, and an unschooling mom of three, so she has lots of experience to draw from as she considers how children learn and thrive. In […]