Australian Homeschool Stories

Dec 22 2024 43 ep. 58 mins 16
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A celebration of homeschooling families living life according to their values in connection with the beautiful lands we are fortunate to call home.

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Marieka’s Story - Perth, WA / Whadjuk Country

Dec 22 2024 68 mins  
“Dream big. What do you want your homeschool to look like? What do you want your whole life to look like? Go after that.”Marieka, her husband and their five children aged 16, 11, 9, 7 and 1 have been homeschooling family style for the last 6 years in sunny Western Australia. As a teacher who’d become disillusioned with the classroom, she decided she would much rather teach he

Nicola’s Story - Marlo Merrican, NSW / Birpai Country

Dec 10 2024 58 mins  
"Stepping back and letting kids learn is really what's at the heart of home education."Meet my friend, Nicola. We originally connected via substack and then in person whilst her family spent time down on the Peninsula. Our daughters, who are similar ages, hit it off instantaneously and in truth so did Nicola and I. This was prior to their move to the mid-north coast of New South Wa

Anna's Story - Killabakh, NSW / Biripi Country

Dec 01 2024 77 mins  
"I had this really strong feeling that she was just a number in this place and that's not good enough."Anna is a worm farmer, author and homesteading mother of three children aged 15, 7 and 2. In this episode she shares her journey from suburbia to living off the land and her eldest daughter's winding educational road to homeschooling. We also talk about permaculture, living life b

Melanie's Story - Newcastle, NSW / Awabakal and Worimi Country

Nov 24 2024 51 mins  
“I’m going to look back one day on this and think those were the glory years."Teacher by trade, Canadian by birth, Melanie is here to share how she wound up calling Newcastle home and why she and her partner chose home education for their two boys, aged 7 and 4. In this episode we talk about longing for community in the early years of motherhood, not being ‘ride or die’ hom

Kacey's Story - Perth, WA / Whadjuk Country

Nov 17 2024 73 mins  
“If you can’t find your village or community - build one.”This is the story of Kacey’s blended family from Perth who have called themselves eclectic homeschoolers for the last three years. Her four children aged 19, 17, 6 and 4 have all had contrasting educational experiences, from thriving in the system, to never being able to catch up, to sidestepping school all together.

Holly & Gemma's Stories - Brisbane, QLD / Turrbal Country

Nov 10 2024 76 mins  
“We said, I don't know if it's forever. I don't know if it's temporary. But we're making a change. Now we say we'll never go back.”This episode is a delightful doubleheader with Holly & Gemma, sisters who live 6 minutes apart in Queensland’s capital city where they homeschool three girls between them. You may already know their cheery voices from their podcast Sisters Who

Assunta's Story - Hunter Valley, NSW / Wonnarua Country

Nov 03 2024 48 mins  
“Have trust in the kids, know that they can follow their passions intuitively. We don’t have to set all these standards of where they should be or would be or could be if they were in the system. Just trust.”Assunta, her husband and two daughters (aged 11 and 8), live on 2.5 acres in the upper Hunter region of New South Wales, where she is never happier than with her feet on

Stephanie - Mornington Peninsula, VIC / Bunurong Country

May 12 2024 63 mins  
"Before we had kids, we were both adamant that we wouldn't put our kids in daycare. We wanted to raise our kids at home. We always knew we were aligned on that. So that's where it started. We were at home. We were together.”The tables have turned and it’s me, your host Stephanie, in the hot seat. Helping me tell my story is the tech-side of this operation, my husband Daniel. Fo

Joss - Denmark, WA / Minang Country

May 05 2024 64 mins  
"Even all the times when it was really, really hard, if I could go back right to the beginning now, I would make exactly the same choices to do it all over again. It's just been the most beautiful experience of my life.”Today I have the pleasure of sharing Joss Goulden’s reflections on her adult children’s natural learning life. As an aware parenting instructor and parenting

Bel - Central Highlands, TAS / Muwinina Country

Apr 28 2024 61 mins  
“How many of us are in our 40s now only just learning how to be artists again because we were told we weren't any good at it?”Bel is raising her two boys (aged 8 and 5) alongside her sister and daughter (aged 6) with the loving support of their parents. They all live & learn together on four acres overlooking the beautiful Derwent River in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.