{"id":25337,"date":"2019-05-30T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=25337"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:35:14","slug":"world-schooling-and-learning-together-while-traveling-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/world-schooling-and-learning-together-while-traveling-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"One Family’s Odyssey of Learning Together While Traveling the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Kaponay family shares with us their struggles and delights as they worldschool their children and travel the world together.\u00a0 If you’ve ever wondered what this journey might look like for you, please continue to read.\u00a0 Their stories are delightful and inspiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ten years ago, on a bleak and wet winter\u2019s morning, stuck in rush-hour traffic, stressed from the aggressive beep and shove of the near zombie-like automatons pushing their way to work, my wife had an epiphany. <\/span>It doesn\u2019t have to be like this<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n She came to an instant realization that the children in the back seat of our SUV were indeed our own. In that moment, she felt deeply just how counter-intuitive it was for her to be fighting through this maelstrom every day, to hand our children off to people, whom, however well-intentioned, were not us, not their parents. In fact, some of their teachers didn\u2019t even have children of their own, and yet, we were giving our children, in their most formative years, to them to raise. <\/span><\/p>\n This was the realization that effectively changed the entire course of our lives. It was that moment that enabled us as a family to see, become aware of, and appreciate, just how much we wanted to be together as a family, as much as we could, for as long as we could. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many people over the course of our journey of the last ten years have asked us a slew of questions that seemed to boggle their minds about learning together as a family. Questions like, <\/span>What were our qualifications? Are we teachers? Did we create a curriculum? Do our children go to school online? What will happen during high school? How will they socialize? What will happen when they have to find a job?<\/span><\/i> Let\u2019s just take a step back for a moment. <\/span><\/p>\n Almost from the instant that we had our children at home as so-called \u201cHomeschoolers\u201d, we never saw their journey of learning as separate from our own. So how did we learn? How do we find direction? Well, we listened closely to that inner voice. Our learning was always intuitively guided and led by the inspiration of the places that we found ourselves in, the relevance of the moment, and the level of interest being expressed by our children and ourselves. <\/span>Inspirational, intuitive, in-the-moment learning<\/span><\/i>. That\u2019s how we like to think of it.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nA New Beginning<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n
Intuition…That Inner Voice of Direction<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n