Out Of Line
This is a podcast about stepping out of line, challenging the norms of schooling, recentering the child, and letting go of control for control's sake. Whether you're schooling, unschooling, deschooling, or homeschooling, this podcast is for you.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
OOL_0062 Starting An SDE Center For Community Unschooling
Jenn and Claire of Blazing Star School join Annie Friday this week to talk about the process of opening an alternative to school with a center for self-directed education (SDE) in community. Blazing …
00:50:14 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
OOL_0061 Baby Steps Into Unschooling
In this episode, Annie Friday tries to answer some questions that new parent and early childhood educator and caregiver, Brett Sanstrom, has about unschooling. Brett shares that as a play-based profe…
00:33:34 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
OOL_0060 Perfectionism with Emma Tempest
Emma Tempest, AKA the Play Coach, joins Annie Friday today to talk about perfectionism, the good, the bad, and the really, really unhelpful aspects of it. Many adults have learned perfectionism throu…
00:40:02 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
OOL_0059 Lives In The Balance
Annie Friday is joined this week by Maile Munson, Director of Advocacy, Outreach and Public Awareness for Lives in the Balance. Lives in the Balance is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating…
00:45:10 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
OOL_0058 Examining Ageism With Aiyana Goodfellow
Host Annie Friday is joined this week by Aiyana Goodfellow, self-described writer, liberator, and delinquent. Much of Aiyana's current work centers on inviting others to dig into their own implicit o…
00:40:18 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
OOL_0057 Intrinsic Motivation With Dr. Gina Riley
Dr. Gina Riley joins Annie Friday this week to discuss Self-Determination Theory and intrinsic motivation. Together, they discuss what types of environments, activities, and parameters can encourage …
00:32:54 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
OOL_0056 Playwork With Adele Cleaver
Adele Cleaver joins Annie Friday this week on Out of Line. Adele is a Playworker and the founder of Big Blue Play, a pop-up playspace in England. Adele shares all about her knowledge and passion for …
00:37:28 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
OOL_0055 Defining Respect
This episode of Out of Line features Latoya Nelson of Raising Resilience and the Attuned Community along with Kisa Marx of The Play Lab Foundation and a conversation with Annie Friday on the concept …
00:33:28 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
OOL_0054 An Unschooling Approach To Bedtime
Annie Friday is joined this week by Renee, a mom from Michigan, to talk about how their family has found healthy sleep routines that work for them. Renee has a unique perspective as she talk about he…
00:31:10 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
OOL_0053 Mind Body Bedtime
This week on Out of Line, Susanne Benton joins Annie Friday to talk about her experience with helping kids and grown-ups fall asleep. Over the last several years, Susanne has used her parenting and t…
00:31:32 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
OOL_0052 The Other Mother
Could the concept of the Other Mother replace the more forced, less authentic systems of teaching social and emotional learning in schools? Latoya Nelson joins Annie Friday this week to discuss the t…
00:34:14 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
OOL_0051 The Role Of School In Family Life
It seems like more than ever before, kids are making their way to middle and secondary school without basic reading, writing, and math skills. Teachers and schools are pointing fingers at parents and…
00:33:16 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
OOL_0050 Celebrating Kwanzaa With Ashley Jefferson
Ashley Jefferson of Nguzo Babies joins Annie Friday on today's episode talking all about Kwanzaa. Ashley briefly explains what Kwanzaa is and why you may want to learn more about it. Often times, chi…
00:33:06 |
Tue 26 Dec 2023
OOL_0049 Creating Healthy Relationships With Food
Annie Friday is joined by Michelle Zagardo of Food Bodies Families and host of The Body Competence podcast. Michelle is on a mission to raise what she calls "body competent humans." In this episode, …
00:33:06 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
OOL_0048 Normalizing Restraint Collapse
Annie and Candis examine the topic of after-school restraint collapse. They wonder out loud together why we are normalizing this restraint as an essential component of back-to-school season and beyon…
00:31:11 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
OOL_0047 Back To School Part 3
Latoya Nelson returns to talk to Annie about her perspective as an educator freshly leaving the conventional school system behind. Latoya shares more about what the back-to-school season looks like i…
00:24:58 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
OOL_0046 Back To School Part 2
Carol Kohl joins Annie this week to talk about the madness of back-to-school season from the perspective of an unschooling homeschool parent. As a former educator, Carol has a unique perspective on h…
00:37:46 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
OOL_0045 Back To School Part 1
Annie Friday is joined by Renee, an unschooling mom whose child is starting his second year back in conventional school. Renee talks about the busy rush, new milestones, and complicated feelings that…
00:35:30 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
OOL_0044 Low Demand Parenting
On this episode of Out of Line, Amanda Diekman joins Annie Friday and Candis Ogilvie to talk about living in a low demand household. Amanda's new book Low Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restorin…
00:35:14 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
OOL_0043 Home As A Pocket Of Love
Joining Annie Friday this week are Sifu Terrell of Lion Martial Arts Academy and Latoya Nelson of the Attuned Learning Community School. Annie, Terrell and Latoya discuss why children deserve to expe…
00:33:38 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
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