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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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How can you go beyond the daily grind of lessons to truly enliven your kids’ learning? In this episode, we go over two methods that you might have already observed pop up naturally in your kids’ lives: rabbit trials and rabbit holes.
Is your kid super obsessed with something at the moment? That’s great! Feed their “rabbit hole” deep-dive with as much material and curiosity as you can.
Does your kid jump from one related topic to another? That’s great too! They are making connections between how things work via “rabbit trails.”
Your child’s natural curiosity is something to be fed, not fought. Join them in the hole or trail!
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0:50.4 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Brave Writer podcast. I'm Melissa Wiley, Julie Bogart's co-host. |
0:57.7 | Julie is attending to some family matters this week, but I am going to take you down a rabbit |
1:04.7 | hole, which is to say we are going to talk about rabbit holes and rabbit trails. My two favorite ways to learn |
1:12.8 | and to enliven learning for my kids. We're going to explore what these two metaphors mean. |
1:20.7 | What's the difference between rabbit trailing and rabbit holing? And why do we want to incorporate these ideas into our kids' educational |
1:31.7 | lives? I want to say that what I'm about to talk about applies equally to homeschoolers or to |
1:38.5 | families with kids at school. These are ways that you can support your kids' education, and they're sort of outside the classroom |
1:46.6 | learning or helping them to go deeper or make more connections between the stuff that they are |
1:51.6 | learning in school. |
1:53.3 | For homeschoolers, this rabbit trails and going down rabbit holes is very much baked into the way that many of us approach education |
2:03.5 | and in fact was a big part of the attraction for some of us that got us on board with the |
2:10.2 | idea of homeschooling in the first place. Even before I had this language for it, that is very |
2:15.3 | much the case for me. And I want to say also that there are a lot of |
2:18.9 | adult learners who you have gone down rabbit holes yourself and you have followed rabbit trails yourself. |
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