September 27, 2025 • 19 mins
Show Notes: Worldschooling Q&A – Episode 1
Episode Title: Episode 1: What is worldschooling?
Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter
Episode Summary:
In this premiere episode of Worldschooling Q&A, we answer a foundational question: What is worldschooling?
Astrid and Clint share how their family used full-time travel as a tool for education, exploring how worldschooling differs from both traditional schooling and vacation travel. They talk about flexible learning, cultural immersion, and what it means to use the world as your classroom—whether you’re traveling full-time or just starting small.
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It's sort of like a full body sensorytype of learning, because you're
seeing things and you're hearing thingsand you get to touch things,
and then you also are, are feeling it,
emotionally like,
having some kind of,like, emotional connection that much like
you can't always get that from readinga book.
(00:22):
This is Worldschooling Q&A.
I'm Astrid,creator of The Wandering Daughter.
As a traveling family,we spent four years traveling
full time to over 18countries and six continents.
Wherever we go, we try to learn
as much as we canabout the countries and cultures we visit.
While we didn't coined the term,we like to call this worldschooling.
(00:43):
Using the world as our classroom.
Each week, my husband, Clint, and I willanswer one question about worldschooling
and share our experiencesof traveling the world with our kids.
Ready to get started?
Great. Let's dive in.
(01:06):
So today we're
answering the questionwhat exactly is worldschooling
and how does it differfrom traditional schooling?
So I said,how would you define worldschooling?
Oh, this is a good question.
So I like to take a pretty, like,
inclusive and broad
(01:26):
definition of worldschooling.
And I, I would say that it is essentiallyusing our
the world or our travelsas opportunities for learning.
Yeah, I think I would very similar.
Pretty simple.
Just combining homeschooling with travelis kind of how I would see it.
(01:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I guessthe way that it differs from, you know,
like traditional schooling in one wayis that, you know,
it is what schooling tends to be like,pretty flexible.
It definitely in my mindor how we've done it
and how we've seen other families do itis, you know, using
(02:08):
the travel experiences that we haveand sort of learning from that,
and incorporating that into,
you know, the,the learning experience for the kids.
Yeah.
And I guess, I guess it it's probably goodto step back, even, back a little bit
and just define like rural schoolingis a variation of homeschooling, right?
(02:31):
It's a it's a variation of,
but for the most part,
and I know there's variationswe can talk about there, but it's like,
I think especially during the pandemicand before when we started worldschooling,
it was an alternate lifestylethat people were families were taking.
Where there is a gap year or multi yearor something along those lines
(02:54):
where they decided to take their kidsif they're already homeschooling,
just take their kids traveling,
or if they weren't homeschooling like us,we were in traditional school.
Yeah, taking the kids out of school.
Working remote somehow and doing that.
So in the general like logisticaldefinition, I think that was it like
the we took initially.
(03:15):
Now I think now I think we havea, kind of more broad definition of that.
So, yeah, I don't know, though I feel likeI've always had a pretty broad,
definition just because, like,
you know,even if you're in traditional school,
it doesn't mean thatyou can't worldschool as well.
Just because you can
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still incorporatelearning into your travel experiences
on school holidays or whatever. But,
maybe you can define it as like,you know, long term
or full time worldschoolingversus like short term worldschooling.
But this the philosophyis still the same of,
you know, whatever, whatever you're doing,through your travels,
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you're finding opportunitiesto to learn more about it,
dive deeper into like the culturesthat you're experiencing or,
you know, learn supplement
a particular, you know,
travel experience with books or,
(04:21):
movies or
things that will,
make you engage more with the experience.
So it's it's more it's almost
it's almost like a more intentional wayto travel with your kids.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like just taking travel with your kidsone level deeper.
(04:44):
Yeah.
And trying to be more intentionalabout what
you're actually absorbing or consuming.
Yeah, that's what I think is important.
Yeah, that's that's the crux of it.
I guess maybe we can talk about like,maybe some of the differences.
Then.
I mean, even
as we're sayingthat worldschooling is not exclusive to,
you know, worldschooling and traditionalschooling are not exclusive of each other.
(05:04):
There are differences in the approach.
And maybe we can talk a little bitabout what you've observed or what
how we've done it.
Yeah.
And I think it's changed over the yearstoo. Right.
When we we started worldschooling.
There's already a worldschooling communitybefore us.
And I think that shiftedeven by the time we started doing it.
(05:25):
And that's now shifted even again.
So I think the landscape of that'schanged a bit.
But so you're talking about
just the, the variations on how peopledifferent families worldschool.
Well yeah.
And also like, you know, when
when you think about traditional school,you focus on like there's set curriculum.
Yeah.
There's, you know, classes that you do,there's physical place that you go to.
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Whereas, you know, with worldschooling,
in some cases you don't always have a set
curriculumjust because, you know, travel can be like
unpredictable at times.
And flexibility is built into that.
Yeah,I think a lot of that too, is there's,
there's a
large number of UN schoolersthat are worldschooling.
(06:10):
And so the breaking awayfrom traditional curriculum, I think, is,
is a big part of worldschooling.
But even it's athat I think it's just tons of variety.
There are, there are peoplewho are in traditional schools
that will take just the summerto worldschool, right?
We have we have friends that do that.
And they'll just and we're kind ofin that same boat now where, yeah,
(06:32):
we have traditional schoolduring the year,
and then in the summer we goand do what's going.
So I think,
I think in general, world going tends
to lend itself more towards kidsdirect kid directed education.
And whether that's unschooling or similar
philosophies to, say, Montessorior Reggio Emilia or something like that.
(06:54):
Yeah, that seems to be where world isgoing is more and we do it too, like
our kids are very involved in the process
of where are we going to go?
What are we going to learn,what activities are we going to do?
Yeah, they're very much involved in that.
But having said that, like
it doesn't feel like education.
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Education, right?
It doesn't feel like it's a curriculum.Not necessarily.
No. Yeah. No.
Because it's so integratedinto just our activities.
You know, like you forget thatwhen you're walking through a museum,
you're learning or like you're walkingthrough, the Colosseum in Rome.
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You're like, you are physically learningabout Roman history. And,
that's what, in my opinion,that's what I like the best
about worldschooling is,
you're doing these experiences that
it's it's sort of like a full body sensorytype of learning because you're
(07:59):
seeing things and you're hearing thingsand you get to touch things,
and then you also are, are feeling it,
emotionally like,
having some kind of,like, emotional connections
that, like, you can't always get thatfrom reading a book.
Yeah. Or,
you know,
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studying something out of a textbook.
So I think we talked a lot about, like,how it differs from,
education, different types of education.
But I think,
I think
maybe some of the listeners would be like,well, how's it different than just
when we go on vacation?Yeah. That's great. So.
So how would you how would you definethe difference of worlds going versus
just like kind of vacation travel? Oh,
(08:42):
in my mind, it'sit's about the mindset, right?
Like when you're going on vacation,your mindset is,
about consumption.
Because you're like, well,I just want to, you know,
check off all the sights on myon my bucket list, or I want to, like,
enjoy just relaxing on the beachand things like that.
(09:04):
So you're not like,there's not as much engagement because,
your,
your focus isn't on that.
Your perspective,your your mindset isn't on that.
It's more about just likethis is a break from reality
or as I think for,
if you have a worldschoolingmindset, it's,
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oh, this is an opportunity to connectwith this place. And,
it's an opportunityto like, learn more about this new place.
So, I mean, you can travel, you can youcan go on vacation and worldschool, too.
I guess we do that.That's what I'm trying to say.
Yeah.
But, you know, there is a difference
between like, a vacation mentality versusa worldschooling mentality.
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And we vacation while we're worldschoolingsometimes.
Yes, we.
We've gone on vacationswhile we were old school.
Yeah, yeah.
How would you what would you say?
Yeah,I would say that's that's fascinating.
You said breakinglike breaking away from reality.
It's kind of definition of vacation.
And then worldschoolingis almost like shifting reality.
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The one thing I was going to point outis one thing we like to do low
scores like to do is like, you're
really like you'retrying to live in that area.
And that can be for a week.
It can be for a month,it can be for three months.
It can be for multiple years. Right.
It's you really trying to experiencewhat it is to live in that area.
So even if we go to saylike a beach town or something,
(10:33):
that's traditionallykind of a vacation spot.
Yeah.
We usually stay in an apartmentof some sort.
We cook a lot, we go to the grocery store,we go to parks, we meet up with people.
It's it's as if we were living there.
And I think to me, that'sone of the key differences with girls
going versus vacation is that,
(10:54):
you know, welike we enjoy going to a hotel to and just
hanging out and swimming in the pooland doing all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, but like when we really wantto go worldschool, like during the summer
and we're gone for weeks at a time, it'sbecause we want to experience what it is.
If we were living in that area.
Right. Like what?
How how do other people like, justhow is this neighborhood I was similar to?
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How is this town?
So that to me,I think how I would how I would define.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I mean,
you know, for listenerswho are, new to us, we spent, you know,
four years traveling around the worldfull time, and we did, like, slow travel.
And we did do that type of schooling that,
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Flint is describing where we found a spot,
and we just lived there fora month or so or more, and
it's a different,
it's like a different experience.
And if you were just staying at a hotelor just staying for a week at a time,
because you start to build like routinesand you start to like,
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notice, you know, how people do thingsand you're trying to like,
okay, I see that in this countryor in this city, this is how,
you know, people buy their groceries.
So then now when we start doing that, so
what I love about it is that then you,
you develop these habitsand then these little habits,
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and then you take it with you to eitherthe next place
or you gowhen you return back to your home.
Yeah.
So that's, that's such a greatI don't know.
That's why I think like, travelcan be so transformational because,
because of those things.
And that's like the real power of roadschooling, you know.
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Yeah, I think
and I mean, just thinking back home,I think taking it to other destinations,
if you are doing multiple,if you're changing destinations together.
Yeah, I think that's fascinating.
The other thing I likeis that the kids will take,
the kids
start recognizing patternsin all the different cultures,
which I think builds a sense of empathy.
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It builds a sense of like unionamong all people.
Yeah, you know that.
Like,it doesn't matter if it's across the world
or in a regionyou've never been to before.
It just seems completely foreign to youwhen you're actually there.
I mean, we were like Vietnam, for example.
Like we're in Vietnam,couldn't speak the language at all.
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And it was a much different culturethan we're used to.
Yeah, but after being therefor three months, we're like
all the same things.
We go to the mall, people go to the mall,they go to the movies, they eat like,
there's, the to the grocery stores,all the, I mean, all very similar.
And, the kids pick up on that too,which. Yeah.
So there's like a multicultural elementto worldschooling that you don't
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always find in like traditional schoolor even sometimes with like homeschooling,
you know, especiallyif you're like, stationary in one place.
And then on the vacation side,it's multicultural in that in Tennessee
is for vacations, extended stay in likeinclusive resorts or things like that.
And, you know,
we actually really get to seemuch of the actual residential culture.
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Yeah.
So how would youwhat are some varieties or worlds going?
Because I think it ispretty varied at this.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, you could be like uswhere I feel like we did a bunch.
We tried a bunch of different things.
There's, you know, you could
just be so, think,
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how do you say this, like, inclusive
to your own family and just,you know, worldschool on your own?
Or you could meet up with another familyand stay in a spot
together in in one place,or there are a lot of,
meet ups and, worldschooling hubs
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these days that you can get in touch with.
In fact,I list a few of them on, my website under,
my article about worlds going resources.
But there's like communitiesthat have been there for a while
and there are like temporary pop up hubs.
There are,
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you know, tours that happenor like meetups that happen to.
So it's that
I've seen such a growth in and it'sbeen nice because I think a lot of people
do want that sense of communitywhile they're traveling.
And what's cool is that, like, for me,
because I've been followingDigital Nomad World for a while. Yeah.
And what's really cool
(15:32):
is like a lot of the digital nomadsthat kind of really defined that era.
A lot of them now are older,a lot of them have families. So
some of them call it
digital nomads with familiesor digital nomadic families.
But like worlds going digital nomadicfamilies is basically the same thing.
Yeah.
So it's like this kind of cool timeright now where there's just so much open.
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And because of the pandemic, too,like a lot of governments are open
towards remote work,there's now a lot of like,
digital nomad visas or different visasthat are available.
So it's just it's a very interesting timeright now to do it.
If you can do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(16:16):
So for,
you know,if you're curious about learning about,
you know,what worldschooling is in in depth.
I do have an article on my website,
that's called What is worldschooling?
And then another article that specifically
talks about, like how to becomea worldschooling family.
(16:37):
I kind of want
to end this episode with like, your take,you know,
how would what would be like the advicefor you in terms of somebody that is new
to worldschooling and wanting to like,start it or understand it more?
Yeah.
Let's say, startby going to Wandering Dotcom,
and readingreading some of the articles for sure.
There's also plenty of Facebook groups.
(17:00):
Facebook is just, I think the primarysocial media that where everyone is.
But you can do
search for groups, worldschoolingand any area that you want in the world.
And there's like a group for it.
So lots of people are there to talk to.
My best advice is like,just talk to somebody.
Who else who'sI mean, that was the catalyst for us.
Yeah. Was talkingabout other world scores.
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And then also just start small,like maybe just go away for a week,
during like spring,if your kids are in traditional school,
go away for a week on spring break,
and don't do your traditional vacationthat you've done in the past, try to get a
an apartmentin a residential area or something.
Yeah. What about you?
I think for me it is, you know, to kind ofgo back to this idea that worldschooling
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and traditional schoolingdon't have to be like one or the other.
That it can be both is like start
adopting a worldschooling mind frameeven at home.
So, like use your home experience
as like use the place that you live
in as opportunitiesfor learning more about it.
(18:09):
You know, approach it like you'rea traveler in that destination.
Yeah.
Anything else you want to cover?
Nope. That's it. All right. Great.
Well, that's all for today.
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It's sort of like a full body sensorytype of learning, because you're
seeing things and you're hearing thingsand you get to touch things,
and then you also are, are feeling it,
emotionally like,
having some kind of,like, emotional connection that much like
you can't always get that from readinga book.
(00:22):
This is Worldschooling Q&A.
I'm Astrid,creator of The Wandering Daughter.
As a traveling family,we spent four years traveling
full time to over 18countries and six continents.
Wherever we go, we try to learn
as much as we canabout the countries and cultures we visit.
While we didn't coined the term,we like to call this worldschooling.
(00:43):
Using the world as our classroom.
Each week, my husband, Clint, and I willanswer one question about worldschooling
and share our experiencesof traveling the world with our kids.
Ready to get started?
Great. Let's dive in.
(01:06):
So today we're
answering the questionwhat exactly is worldschooling
and how does it differfrom traditional schooling?
So I said,how would you define worldschooling?
Oh, this is a good question.
So I like to take a pretty, like,
inclusive and broad
(01:26):
definition of worldschooling.
And I, I would say that it is essentiallyusing our
the world or our travelsas opportunities for learning.
Yeah, I think I would very similar.
Pretty simple.
Just combining homeschooling with travelis kind of how I would see it.
(01:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I guessthe way that it differs from, you know,
like traditional schooling in one wayis that, you know,
it is what schooling tends to be like,pretty flexible.
It definitely in my mindor how we've done it
and how we've seen other families do itis, you know, using
(02:08):
the travel experiences that we haveand sort of learning from that,
and incorporating that into,
you know, the,the learning experience for the kids.
Yeah.
And I guess, I guess it it's probably goodto step back, even, back a little bit
and just define like rural schoolingis a variation of homeschooling, right?
(02:31):
It's a it's a variation of,
but for the most part,
and I know there's variationswe can talk about there, but it's like,
I think especially during the pandemicand before when we started worldschooling,
it was an alternate lifestylethat people were families were taking.
Where there is a gap year or multi yearor something along those lines
(02:54):
where they decided to take their kidsif they're already homeschooling,
just take their kids traveling,
or if they weren't homeschooling like us,we were in traditional school.
Yeah, taking the kids out of school.
Working remote somehow and doing that.
So in the general like logisticaldefinition, I think that was it like
the we took initially.
(03:15):
Now I think now I think we havea, kind of more broad definition of that.
So, yeah, I don't know, though I feel likeI've always had a pretty broad,
definition just because, like,
you know,even if you're in traditional school,
it doesn't mean thatyou can't worldschool as well.
Just because you can
(03:37):
still incorporatelearning into your travel experiences
on school holidays or whatever. But,
maybe you can define it as like,you know, long term
or full time worldschoolingversus like short term worldschooling.
But this the philosophyis still the same of,
you know, whatever, whatever you're doing,through your travels,
(04:00):
you're finding opportunitiesto to learn more about it,
dive deeper into like the culturesthat you're experiencing or,
you know, learn supplement
a particular, you know,
travel experience with books or,
(04:21):
movies or
things that will,
make you engage more with the experience.
So it's it's more it's almost
it's almost like a more intentional wayto travel with your kids.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like just taking travel with your kidsone level deeper.
(04:44):
Yeah.
And trying to be more intentionalabout what
you're actually absorbing or consuming.
Yeah, that's what I think is important.
Yeah, that's that's the crux of it.
I guess maybe we can talk about like,maybe some of the differences.
Then.
I mean, even
as we're sayingthat worldschooling is not exclusive to,
you know, worldschooling and traditionalschooling are not exclusive of each other.
(05:04):
There are differences in the approach.
And maybe we can talk a little bitabout what you've observed or what
how we've done it.
Yeah.
And I think it's changed over the yearstoo. Right.
When we we started worldschooling.
There's already a worldschooling communitybefore us.
And I think that shiftedeven by the time we started doing it.
(05:25):
And that's now shifted even again.
So I think the landscape of that'schanged a bit.
But so you're talking about
just the, the variations on how peopledifferent families worldschool.
Well yeah.
And also like, you know, when
when you think about traditional school,you focus on like there's set curriculum.
Yeah.
There's, you know, classes that you do,there's physical place that you go to.
(05:49):
Whereas, you know, with worldschooling,
in some cases you don't always have a set
curriculumjust because, you know, travel can be like
unpredictable at times.
And flexibility is built into that.
Yeah,I think a lot of that too, is there's,
there's a
large number of UN schoolersthat are worldschooling.
(06:10):
And so the breaking awayfrom traditional curriculum, I think, is,
is a big part of worldschooling.
But even it's athat I think it's just tons of variety.
There are, there are peoplewho are in traditional schools
that will take just the summerto worldschool, right?
We have we have friends that do that.
And they'll just and we're kind ofin that same boat now where, yeah,
(06:32):
we have traditional schoolduring the year,
and then in the summer we goand do what's going.
So I think,
I think in general, world going tends
to lend itself more towards kidsdirect kid directed education.
And whether that's unschooling or similar
philosophies to, say, Montessorior Reggio Emilia or something like that.
(06:54):
Yeah, that seems to be where world isgoing is more and we do it too, like
our kids are very involved in the process
of where are we going to go?
What are we going to learn,what activities are we going to do?
Yeah, they're very much involved in that.
But having said that, like
it doesn't feel like education.
(07:16):
Education, right?
It doesn't feel like it's a curriculum.Not necessarily.
No. Yeah. No.
Because it's so integratedinto just our activities.
You know, like you forget thatwhen you're walking through a museum,
you're learning or like you're walkingthrough, the Colosseum in Rome.
(07:37):
You're like, you are physically learningabout Roman history. And,
that's what, in my opinion,that's what I like the best
about worldschooling is,
you're doing these experiences that
it's it's sort of like a full body sensorytype of learning because you're
(07:59):
seeing things and you're hearing thingsand you get to touch things,
and then you also are, are feeling it,
emotionally like,
having some kind of,like, emotional connections
that, like, you can't always get thatfrom reading a book.
Yeah. Or,
you know,
(08:20):
studying something out of a textbook.
So I think we talked a lot about, like,how it differs from,
education, different types of education.
But I think,
I think
maybe some of the listeners would be like,well, how's it different than just
when we go on vacation?Yeah. That's great. So.
So how would you how would you definethe difference of worlds going versus
just like kind of vacation travel? Oh,
(08:42):
in my mind, it'sit's about the mindset, right?
Like when you're going on vacation,your mindset is,
about consumption.
Because you're like, well,I just want to, you know,
check off all the sights on myon my bucket list, or I want to, like,
enjoy just relaxing on the beachand things like that.
(09:04):
So you're not like,there's not as much engagement because,
your,
your focus isn't on that.
Your perspective,your your mindset isn't on that.
It's more about just likethis is a break from reality
or as I think for,
if you have a worldschoolingmindset, it's,
(09:26):
oh, this is an opportunity to connectwith this place. And,
it's an opportunityto like, learn more about this new place.
So, I mean, you can travel, you can youcan go on vacation and worldschool, too.
I guess we do that.That's what I'm trying to say.
Yeah.
But, you know, there is a difference
between like, a vacation mentality versusa worldschooling mentality.
(09:48):
And we vacation while we're worldschoolingsometimes.
Yes, we.
We've gone on vacationswhile we were old school.
Yeah, yeah.
How would you what would you say?
Yeah,I would say that's that's fascinating.
You said breakinglike breaking away from reality.
It's kind of definition of vacation.
And then worldschoolingis almost like shifting reality.
(10:11):
The one thing I was going to point outis one thing we like to do low
scores like to do is like, you're
really like you'retrying to live in that area.
And that can be for a week.
It can be for a month,it can be for three months.
It can be for multiple years. Right.
It's you really trying to experiencewhat it is to live in that area.
So even if we go to saylike a beach town or something,
(10:33):
that's traditionallykind of a vacation spot.
Yeah.
We usually stay in an apartmentof some sort.
We cook a lot, we go to the grocery store,we go to parks, we meet up with people.
It's it's as if we were living there.
And I think to me, that'sone of the key differences with girls
going versus vacation is that,
(10:54):
you know, welike we enjoy going to a hotel to and just
hanging out and swimming in the pooland doing all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, but like when we really wantto go worldschool, like during the summer
and we're gone for weeks at a time, it'sbecause we want to experience what it is.
If we were living in that area.
Right. Like what?
How how do other people like, justhow is this neighborhood I was similar to?
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How is this town?
So that to me,I think how I would how I would define.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I mean,
you know, for listenerswho are, new to us, we spent, you know,
four years traveling around the worldfull time, and we did, like, slow travel.
And we did do that type of schooling that,
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Flint is describing where we found a spot,
and we just lived there fora month or so or more, and
it's a different,
it's like a different experience.
And if you were just staying at a hotelor just staying for a week at a time,
because you start to build like routinesand you start to like,
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notice, you know, how people do thingsand you're trying to like,
okay, I see that in this countryor in this city, this is how,
you know, people buy their groceries.
So then now when we start doing that, so
what I love about it is that then you,
you develop these habitsand then these little habits,
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and then you take it with you to eitherthe next place
or you gowhen you return back to your home.
Yeah.
So that's, that's such a greatI don't know.
That's why I think like, travelcan be so transformational because,
because of those things.
And that's like the real power of roadschooling, you know.
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Yeah, I think
and I mean, just thinking back home,I think taking it to other destinations,
if you are doing multiple,if you're changing destinations together.
Yeah, I think that's fascinating.
The other thing I likeis that the kids will take,
the kids
start recognizing patternsin all the different cultures,
which I think builds a sense of empathy.
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It builds a sense of like unionamong all people.
Yeah, you know that.
Like,it doesn't matter if it's across the world
or in a regionyou've never been to before.
It just seems completely foreign to youwhen you're actually there.
I mean, we were like Vietnam, for example.
Like we're in Vietnam,couldn't speak the language at all.
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And it was a much different culturethan we're used to.
Yeah, but after being therefor three months, we're like
all the same things.
We go to the mall, people go to the mall,they go to the movies, they eat like,
there's, the to the grocery stores,all the, I mean, all very similar.
And, the kids pick up on that too,which. Yeah.
So there's like a multicultural elementto worldschooling that you don't
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always find in like traditional schoolor even sometimes with like homeschooling,
you know, especiallyif you're like, stationary in one place.
And then on the vacation side,it's multicultural in that in Tennessee
is for vacations, extended stay in likeinclusive resorts or things like that.
And, you know,
we actually really get to seemuch of the actual residential culture.
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Yeah.
So how would youwhat are some varieties or worlds going?
Because I think it ispretty varied at this.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, you could be like uswhere I feel like we did a bunch.
We tried a bunch of different things.
There's, you know, you could
just be so, think,
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how do you say this, like, inclusive
to your own family and just,you know, worldschool on your own?
Or you could meet up with another familyand stay in a spot
together in in one place,or there are a lot of,
meet ups and, worldschooling hubs
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these days that you can get in touch with.
In fact,I list a few of them on, my website under,
my article about worlds going resources.
But there's like communitiesthat have been there for a while
and there are like temporary pop up hubs.
There are,
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you know, tours that happenor like meetups that happen to.
So it's that
I've seen such a growth in and it'sbeen nice because I think a lot of people
do want that sense of communitywhile they're traveling.
And what's cool is that, like, for me,
because I've been followingDigital Nomad World for a while. Yeah.
And what's really cool
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is like a lot of the digital nomadsthat kind of really defined that era.
A lot of them now are older,a lot of them have families. So
some of them call it
digital nomads with familiesor digital nomadic families.
But like worlds going digital nomadicfamilies is basically the same thing.
Yeah.
So it's like this kind of cool timeright now where there's just so much open.
(15:55):
And because of the pandemic, too,like a lot of governments are open
towards remote work,there's now a lot of like,
digital nomad visas or different visasthat are available.
So it's just it's a very interesting timeright now to do it.
If you can do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So for,
you know,if you're curious about learning about,
you know,what worldschooling is in in depth.
I do have an article on my website,
that's called What is worldschooling?
And then another article that specifically
talks about, like how to becomea worldschooling family.
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I kind of want
to end this episode with like, your take,you know,
how would what would be like the advicefor you in terms of somebody that is new
to worldschooling and wanting to like,start it or understand it more?
Yeah.
Let's say, startby going to Wandering Dotcom,
and readingreading some of the articles for sure.
There's also plenty of Facebook groups.
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Facebook is just, I think the primarysocial media that where everyone is.
But you can do
search for groups, worldschoolingand any area that you want in the world.
And there's like a group for it.
So lots of people are there to talk to.
My best advice is like,just talk to somebody.
Who else who'sI mean, that was the catalyst for us.
Yeah. Was talkingabout other world scores.
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And then also just start small,like maybe just go away for a week,
during like spring,if your kids are in traditional school,
go away for a week on spring break,
and don't do your traditional vacationthat you've done in the past, try to get a
an apartmentin a residential area or something.
Yeah. What about you?
I think for me it is, you know, to kind ofgo back to this idea that worldschooling
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and traditional schoolingdon't have to be like one or the other.
That it can be both is like start
adopting a worldschooling mind frameeven at home.
So, like use your home experience
as like use the place that you live
in as opportunitiesfor learning more about it.
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You know, approach it like you'rea traveler in that destination.
Yeah.
Anything else you want to cover?
Nope. That's it. All right. Great.
Well, that's all for today.
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on this episode of Worldschooling Q&Awith Astrid and Clint.
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