66 episodes
The OnlySchoolers Podcast: Helping You Homeschool OnlySchoolers
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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What happens when two homeschool moms, each with an only child, meet at the local ice-skating rink and strike up a friendship?We’re about to find out…We’re Christyn Edwards and Gina Prosch, and we created the OnlySchoolers Podcast and community to share the wisdom and hard-learned lessons of our years homeschooling only children.Our kids spend hours at our local rink each week, and while they skate, we wait…and talk. Our conversation topics range widely, but we always come back to homeschooling.Each of us quickly realized that “onlyschoolers” (our word for home-educating families with just one child) are a small percentage of the homeschool population and while there are plenty of resources for large families, those ideas don’t necessarily translate to the reality of the day-in and day-out of educating just one child.So to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, we are being the change we want to see in the world: a resource for onlyschoolers.But our ideas aren’t just for onlyschoolers. As any homeschooling parent can tell you, each child can require a different approach, so let us help you sort out how that looks in your home, whether you’re teaching one or a dozen. We hope the stories, ideas, and sympathetic ear we bring you on the podcast will help you create unique learning experiences for your own children.More than that, we know that creating a unique education for your child will strengthen your relationship and isn’t that why we’re homeschooling in the first place?The OnlySchoolers Facebook page and Instagram (our handle is @Onlyschoolers) serves as our virtual ice-rink, where we invite you to continue the conversations we begin on the podcast and gain a sense of community. It can be lonely being an only, so join us! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onlyschoolers/support
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Hello...and Hiatus
A sign-off episode for the OnlySchoolers Podcast as we take a permanent hiatus.
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#QUOTES: The One Where It All Works Out
Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Fortune befriends the bold.” — Emily Dickinson
“Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” — Vera Wang
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” — Andrew Carnegie
Listen to our The One Where It All Works Out playlist on Spotify.
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#QUOTES: One Thing Leads to Another
Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.
“If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he'll probably ask you for a straw. When he's finished, he'll ask you for a napkin. Then he'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache.” --Laura Numeroff
"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice." -- Lewis Carroll
"What other function do books have, the great ones, but to change the reader? Books to comfort. But most of all, books to disturb you forward." --Jon Cohen
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." — G. K. Chesterton
"Dwell in possibility."— Emily Dickinson
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” — Amelia Earhart
“One cat just leads to another.” — Hemingway
Listen to our One Thing Leads to Another playlist on Spotify.
Thanks for listening!
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#QUOTES: Over the River and Through the Woods
Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Sir Isaac Newton
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
Listen to our Over the River and Through the Woods playlist on Spotify.
Thanks for listening!
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#QUOTES: Defining Education
Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.
“Education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Einstein
“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” – Alexandre Dumas
“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle
Listen to our Defining Education playlist on Spotify.
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#QUOTES: What's for Lunch?
Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.
“An army marches on its stomach.” – Napoleon
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world..” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” – Shakespeare
Listen to our What's for Lunch? playlist on Spotify.
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Customer Reviews
Intelligent, Witty, and Fun
Maybe you're new to homeschooling, or maybe you're facing a new challenge with the homeschool you've got. Maybe you spend your days with an only child, or maybe it's a room full of siblings. Whatever scenario you face, it's likely the two knowledgeable hosts of this program will inspire you to new heights. With intelligent conversation and practical advice, this show is at the top of my personal "teaching dad" curriculum. Witty, fun, and always informative.
Sage advice
Great advice from two of the most intelligent & organized homeschooling moms I know. I always feel encouraged in my journey & learn something new in conversations with them. Thanks Gina & Christyn!!
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