Homeschooling with Neurodivergent Children with Kelly Edwards

JAN 31, 202441 MIN
The Intuitive Family Podcast

Homeschooling with Neurodivergent Children with Kelly Edwards

JAN 31, 202441 MIN

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<p>In this episode, you’ll meet Kelly Edwards, mompreneur and veteran homeschooling mom of three neurodivergent girls living in Shenandoah Valley of WV.</p> <p>Kelly is passionate about home education, connecting families through attachment, learning as a lifestyle, and helping children (and parents) identify their purpose.  </p> <p>Kelly is also a homeschool coach and creator of the 90-Minute School Day, a lifestyle approach that connects children with learning in their natural environment: at home with their family.  </p> <p>A few topics we discuss are:</p> <ul> <li><p>How deschooling helped Kelly find her way with homeschooling with young, newly adopted, and foster children </p> </li> <li><p>Why having a growth mindset and trusting the process benefits you and your family </p> </li> <li><p>How she uses her method, The 90-Minute School Day, to structure her days to be there for her children while running a successful at-home business</p> </li> <li><p>Why homeschooling isn’t only about academics and the children, and what it’s really about</p> </li> </ul> <p>In a bonus episode, Kelly shares:</p> <ul> <li><p>Why she homeschools</p> </li> <li><p>Her top tips for homeschooling, running an at-home business while homeschooling, and supporting neurodivergent learners</p> </li> <li><p>What clues led her to realize that she had neurodivergent children and how having a recorded  diagnosis can open doors to more support for you and your children</p> </li> <li><p>What is misunderstood about trusting the process and how anxiety keeps you from doing so</p> </li> </ul> <p>Join Homeschool U Academy and have access to the bonus episode, courses, ebooks, a “Homeschool Help Desk,” community, and more:<a href="http://www.homeschoolu.academy/join"> www.homeschoolu.academy/join </a></p> <p>Connect with Kelly: </p> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/90MinuteSchoolDay">http://www.instagram.com/90MinuteSchoolDay</a> </p> </li> <li><p><a href="http://www.90minuteschoolday.com/">www.90minuteschoolday.com</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>Learn more about our sponsor, TruFluency, an online Spanish immersion program for children, and get 20% off of your first month using code intuitivepod20 at <a href="https://trufluencykids.com/">https://trufluencykids.com/</a></p> <p>Learn more about our sponsor, Hewitt Learning, a non-profit that offers homeschoolers literature and chemistry curriculum, standardized testing, and more at <a href="http://www.hewittlearning.org/intuitive">www.hewittlearning.org/intuitive</a>. </p> <p>Subscribe to <em>The Intuitive Family Podcast</em> wherever you listen to podcasts.</p> <p>Do you have a question or suggestion for how I can improve the show? Email Camille at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> <p>Visit <a href="http://www.intuitivefamily.co/">www.intuitivefamily.co</a> for more info on intuitive family living.</p>