Worldschooling and Long Term Family Travel | Podcast Recommendations
Teach your kids in the real world with Worldschooling, or just make a long trip something extra
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This week’s newsletter is for the parents of kids looking for flexibility and depth in their education plans.
Meet The Curator: Suzy May
Suzy May is a worldschooler (you’ll learn more about that movement) and podcaster. She’s bringing us this week’s list. Here’s why she chose this theme:
Choosing to do a school year abroad (and continue doing half abroad and half at our home base) has been the greatest gift for our family, especially our now 6 and 8 year olds!
It inspired me to start my own podcast and listen voraciously to other podcasts that share the joys, challenges, and adventures of worldschooling families! I hope this inspires you to slow down and savor your family travels!
5 Podcasts on Worldschooling and Longterm Travel for the Family
These podcast episodes and the descriptions of each one were selected and written by Suzy May
Wander Worldschool and Slow Family Travel Podcast
Your 6-Step Wander Financial Framework to Plan for Worldschooling
Host (and curator) Suzy May kicks off this recap episode with an update on her family’s adventures over the past month. She also shares listener locations and highlights from recent episodes — including conversations with Water Hub creator Danielle, a father of eight navigating slow travel in Costa Rica, and Erin, whose family has spent five years traveling full-time with two cats.
In the episode’s Deep Dive, Suzy breaks down her six-part Wander Financial Framework — a step-by-step guide for families interested in worldschooling and long-term travel. The framework walks through defining your “why,” building a realistic budget, assessing your current assets, identifying income opportunities, creating a financial plan, and ultimately putting that plan into action.
Our Offbeat Life
Raising Mentally Well Kids While Traveling Full-Time
Host David converses with Addie Weiland, a licensed therapist and full-time traveling mom, about her experiences raising mentally well children while traveling. Addie dispels myths about long-term travel for kids and offers suggestions for maintaining emotional regulation and routines. Her insights help support mental wellness for all family members while full-time traveling!
Homeschool Moms Unfiltered
Worldschooling 101: Learning Through Travel Without Breaking the Bank
Hosts Meagan and Amanda, veteran secular homeschool moms, share how you can worldschool near and far, and offer some tips to worldschool on a budget. Tips like reading books about a location before the trip, taking local classes and activities and learning the language are great ways to include worldschooling in your families adventures!
Ordinary Sherpa
Episode 134: Lessons from 466 days of Travel
Host Heidi recaps her family of five’s transformative journey for 466 days of travel and the lessons they learned along the way. They RV’d around the U.S. to all the offbeat locations, and she shares how this gap year shaped their outlook on life and home. She also offers tips to cultivating a life with less while gaining more!
The WHY Matters
#44 - Raising Trilingual Kids
Long-time full-time traveling parents, Will and Jessica, look back at the years-long journey through Costa Rica school, French immersion programs, online language coaching to support their two young adults to become fully trilingual (English, Spanish and French). They share what worked, what didn’t, and what it cost, both financially and emotionally, to pursue this commitment to teaching their kids three languages while the parents only spoke English and some Spanish. Plus: why they think it is so important to support language development for worldschooling families!
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This issue of EarBuds Kids was compiled by Keelin, podcast critic. Read her work here.
Thank you for sharing a few of my many favorite podcast episodes all about and by worldschoolers! Listen to more episodes of Wander Worldschool at www.wanderworldschool.com!