Raising Lifelong Learners
Hosted by Colleen · Colleen Kessler, M.Ed.
4.9from 220 ratings
- 322
- Episodes
- 87
- Transcribed
- 220
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Raising Lifelong Learners
Raising Lifelong Learners is the podcast for parents raising and homeschooling neurodivergent kids—including gifted, twice-exceptional (2e), ADHD, autistic, anxious, and otherwise differently wired children. Hosted by gifted specialist, author, and longtime homeschool mom Colleen Kessler, each episode helps you better understand the child in front of you and create a homeschool and family life that works with their unique brain—not against it. You'll find practical, compassionate support for homeschooling, executive function, anxiety, emotional regulation, motivation, intensity, giftedness, twice-exceptionality, and the everyday challenges of raising neurodivergent kids. Because your child doesn't need to fit someone else's version of learning, parenting, or success. And you don't have to figure it all out alone.
- Publisher
- Colleen Kessler, M.Ed.
- Category
- education · kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Jan 2018
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
87 of 322 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Small Changes, Big Impact: Transforming Your Homeschool With Ten Percent Tweaks
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Reimagining Homeschool: How to Foster Connection and Individual Growth for Every Child
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Executive Function Hacks: Getting Neurodivergent Kids Moving in Homeschool Settings
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Small Changes, Big Impact: Transforming Your Homeschool With Ten Percent Tweaks
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Maybe I'm just not disciplined enough to do this. Maybe I didn't plan enough. Maybe I planned too much. Maybe everybody else out there who's doing homeschooling, they know something I don't. And here's the thing. I know it's natural to catastrophize and fall back on that, especially if you're raising neurodivergent kids. You're probably a little neurodivergent yourself and you struggle with anxiety or perfectionism or overthinking or executive dysfunction or whatever. But the thing is, a plan that's not working is not the same thing as a homeschool failing, right? When we make a homeschool plan, we're making it based on the information we have before we're actually living the plan. […]
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