We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We’ll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you’ll pull a chair up to the table and join us.
Virtual Kitchen Table
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We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We’re gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We’ll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you’ll pull a chair up to the table and join us.
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Recent Episodes
July 2, 2026
Episode 57: What is Unschooling, Part 2: What Unschooling Looks Like
<p>We welcomed Sue Elvis of <a href="https://www.storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com/" target="_blank"><u>Stories of an Unschooling Family</u></a> to discuss Part Two of Hayley’s <a href="https://takingakinderpath.com/tag/unschooling/" target="_blank">What is Unschooling? </a>series.</p><p>It was another rich opportunity to dig deeply into the nuts and bolts of the practical side of unschooling, with concrete examples and shared experiences.</p><p>We hope you’ll have a listen and learn something new.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources:</strong></p><p><a href="https://takingakinderpath.com/what-unschooling-looks-like/" target="_blank">What is Unschooling, Part 2: What Does Unschooling Like? Taking a Kinder Path</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/unschooling-whats-in-a-name/" target="_blank">Unschooling: What’s in a Name? – Ever Learning</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/virtual-kitchen-table-podcast-1/home-ed-labels-and-jargon-sorting-them-through" target="_blank">Home Ed Labels and Jargon: Sorting Them Through, Episode 19 – Virtual Kitchen Table Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/virtual-kitchen-table-podcast-1/what-is-unschooling-and-how-does-it-work" target="_blank">What is Unschooling and How Does it Work? Episode 18 - Virtual Kitchen Table Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/virtual-kitchen-table-podcast-1/what-do-our-unschooling-days-look-like-part-1" target="_blank">What Do Our Unschooling Days Look Like? Part One, Episode 1 - Virtual Kitchen Table Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/virtual-kitchen-table-podcast-1/what-do-our-unschooling-days-look-like-part-2" target="_blank">What Do Our Unschooling Days Look Like? Part One, Episode 2 - Virtual Kitchen Table Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Big-Book-Unschooling-Sandra-Dodd/dp/0557181550" target="_blank">Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd - Sandra Dodd</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cecilieconrad.com/theladies" target="_blank">Ladies Fixing the World podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://livingjoyfully.ca/blog/2025/03/eu382-unschooling-stumbling-blocks-its-not-the-unschooling/" target="_blank">EU382: Unschooling Stumbling Blocks: It’s Not the Unschooling - Exploring Unschooling Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/understanding-unschooling/" target="_blank">Understanding Unschooling – Ever Learning</a></p><p></p>
June 7, 2026
What is Unschooling, Part 1: A Framework of Ideas
<p>Do you ever wonder what unschooling is really about? Or maybe you have a sense of it yourself but wonder how to describe it if asked? This ended up being a very full and nuanced conversation based on the first part of <a href="https://takingakinderpath.com/what-is-unschooling-part-one-a-framework-of-ideas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Hayley’s blog post series</u></a> by the same name. What a joy to speak with <strong>Sue Elvis</strong> from <a href="https://www.storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Stories of an Unschooling Family</u></a> and reflect about the framework of unschooling in detail based on Hayley’s ideas and our own. We seem to learn as we discuss and think you’ll gain some perspective from this conversation and some fuel for your own realizations. </p><p><br><strong>Resources:</strong></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://takingakinderpath.com/what-is-unschooling-part-one-a-framework-of-ideas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>What is Unschooling? Part 1: A Framework of Ideas, Hayley, Taking a Kinder Path</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Stories of an Unschooling Family</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Curious-Unschoolers-Stories-Unschooling-Family/dp/0992558875" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Curious Unschoolers, Sue Elvis</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Radical-Unschool-Love-Stories-Unschooling/dp/0645486701" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Radical Unschool Love, Sue Elvis</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Unschool-Challenge-Stories-Unschooling-Family/dp/0645486728" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>The Unschool Challenge, Sue Elvis</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/podcast/unschooling-a-voyage-of-discovery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Unschooling: A Voyage of Discovery, Episode 31</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/unschooling-whats-in-a-name/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Unschooling – What’s in a Name, Ever Learning</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/podcast/what-is-unschooling-and-how-does-it-work-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>What is Unschooling and How Does it Work? Episode 18</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.everlearning.ca/podcast/do-we-deserve-joy-unpacking-perspectives-of-joy-in-home-education-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Do We Deserve Joy? Unpacking Perspectives of Joy in Home Education, Episode 8</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cecilieconrad.com/theladies" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Ladies Fixing the World podcast </u></a></p><p><a href="https://takingakinderpath.com/benefits-learning-to-read-later/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>8 Benefits of Learning to Read Later (and taking a more natural approach), Taking a Kinder Path</u></a></p>
May 18, 2026
Episode 55: Young People Often Do Know What They Don’t Know
<p><strong>Resources:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Episode 54: Parents Can’t Teach Their Children Everything and That’s Okay </p><p><br></p><p>Episode 16: Lists or Not: How Do We and Those We Love Keep Organized?</p>
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