Episode Details

The way we educate children today isn't the way we've always done it. In fact, many of the practices parents take for granted are surprisingly recent developments in American history.

Historian and homeschooling mother Dixie Dillon Lane, author of Skipping School, joins Ginny Yurich to uncover how homeschooling went from an underground movement, where families sometimes hid their children to avoid legal trouble, to a mainstream educational choice embraced by millions.

Along the way, they explore why early homeschooling pioneers challenged the push toward younger academic instruction, how standardization transformed classrooms, and why parents may not realize how dramatically schooling has changed since their own childhoods.

But this conversation goes beyond homeschooling. It's about reclaiming the freedom to think differently about education, recognizing that children develop on different timelines, and discovering how our choices about learning can create more room for childhood, family connection, and a life less governed by the clock.

Get Dixie's book here!

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