Consider This...Podcast
Welcome to Consider This a podcast from the Wilberforce School.
On consider this we address issues educators and parents face in the formation of children.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Katy Faust - How To Talk to Your Kids About Sex
Listen in to hear Katy share with our parents tips for how to talk with your children about sex. Katy reminds parents about the “No Flinch Rule”. Don’t freak when your child brings up a difficult to…
We Become Our Habits, and Our Children Become Us
Listen in as Justin Whitmel Earley, author, speaker, and lawyer, shares about how we become our habits and our children become us. Justin’s new book Habits of the Household challenges us to think abo…
Did you know most kids really want to talk with their parents about sex?
For many parents when it comes to talking with your children about the “birds and the bees,” you long for better resources to equip you for these meaningful conversations. Listen in as we talk with A…
Lessons Learned from the Life of Betsey Stockton
Listen in and discover lessons learned from the life of Betsey Stockton - America’s first, single woman foreign missionary. Born a slave in Princeton, Betsey Stockton became an educator and community…
Shepherding a Child's Heart - Tedd Tripp
Tedd has developed and teaches materials that encourage the people of God to understand gospel hope for the ways that human beings are pushed and pulled by the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Te…
Why Study the Classics?
In response to a thought provoking-article, The Post COVID Classical Education Boom and the webinar Why Study the Classics hosted by The James Madison Institute with Dr. Anika Prather (co-author of t…
Marty Machowski-Passing Down Gospel Truths
What do locust have to do with sharing gospel truths with your children and grandchildren? Surprisingly, Marty Machowski explores the story in Exodus 10 of the plague of locusts in Egypt, to reveal G…
Junior Projects - What They Teach Us
The “Junior Project" is a marquee experience in the Wilberforce Upper School. Each junior chooses a project they are passionate about or a specific area of interest. Students are paired with a facult…
Get a Job
"What did you do this summer?" is a universal question asked of most students by friends, teachers, and even college admissions officers. How should high school students be answering this question? …
Wilberforce Entrepreneurs
A long-time goal for our school is to develop a program where student initiatives and entrepreneurial enterprises are developed, and shared. Listen to our latest podcast, as junior Annie Whitman desc…
Justin Earley Part 2
Justin Earley: Ordinary Habits Extraordinary Lives
Justin Whitmel Earley, author of The Common Rule, shared with our school this week how habits are shaping our lives consciously or subconsciously. Justin challenged us to recognize how our habits ref…
Summer Opportunities part II
College Admissions
Listen to Director of College Guidance, Julia Wilson, speak about what eighth, ninth, and tenth grade students should be thinking about and focusing on now, what impact is the Covid Crisis is having …
Changing Landscape of College Admissions
How can we adapt to the shifting landscape of college admissions?
The past weeks have announced incredible changes in the college admissions process. Institutions, students, and families are all hav…
What can YOU learn from an eighth grader?
A tradition at Wilberforce is the Class Eight speeches given every winter during Lower School chapel. Class Eight students share with the Lower School what they have learned during their Middle Sch…
What did NFL player Caraun Reid have to say to our students?
Former Princeton Tiger and NFL defensive lineman Caraun Reid spoke to our Middle & Upper School during our Wilberforce Day Chapel this year. In addition to worshiping with our students, he encouraged…
Dr. Leonard Sax: Evidence-Based Parenting
If you missed guest speaker and author, Dr. Leonard Sax, listen here as he speaks to our parents about his research in evidence-based parenting and the different challenges facing our children in the…
How can a summer change your life?
Summer is a unique time, it is a time for quiet, a time for decision, and time for new experiences, friendships and challenges. Summer is unique especially in the lives of students. This podcast shar…
Who is Charlotte Mason?
Who is Charlotte Mason and what does her influence look like at Wilberforce? Listen to Admissions Director, Kerry Wilson, share a little bit about the who, what, and why of Charlotte Mason. If you ar…