Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
When we were starting worlds going,I had a hard time
finding any kind of books.
I mean, maybe there was like one book
and it wasn't specificallytwo worlds playing.
It was like about a family and traveling,
around the world with her,you know, a mom traveling around the world
with the kids.
That one is called at home in the world.
And that was like the one bookthat I found that was about worlds going.
(00:23):
And now there's a lot.
This is Worldschool and Q&A.
I'm Astrid,creator of The Wandering Daughter.
As a traveling family,we've 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.
(00:44):
While we didn't coined the term,we like to call this worldschooling.
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.
(01:09):
Okay, today's question is
what resources are available for families
new to worldschooling?
So we've covered some of thisin a previous episode.
But this will just be more of a deepdive in kind of some of those resources
in general.
I know there's one resourcethat you want to mention
right off the bat,so why don't you go with it? Yes.
(01:31):
You can go to my website,
my website, TheWanderingDaughter.comis a great resource
if you're new to worldschoolingand you want to learn all about it.
I do have articles specifically,
called Worldschooling Resources,but there's also dozens of articles
on topics, related to worldschooling. So,
(01:53):
you know, I invite you to check it out
and just get as much of the informationfrom there as you can about that.
Yeah.
I think additionally to your blog,there are a number of blogs out there.
That are about, the within the world'sgoing or digital nomad world.
So blogs are great resourcesjust because they're anecdotal.
(02:15):
They're differentpeople actually traveling.
Those are great.
And then on top of that is social media.
Of courseInstagram is a great place to find people.
Yeah, Facebook is huge.
I mean, the majority of the world'sschooling
population has a presence on Facebook.
There's world scouring groups, on Facebook
(02:35):
for all sorts of types of worldschooling,but also,
digital nomad families.
Also regions you can find Facebook groups
for Turkey, for Bali, for,
Mexico specificlike Playa del Carmen or southern Spain.
(02:56):
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I have a Facebook group, calledResponsible Family Travel that's focused
on worldschoolers who are committedto traveling sustainably and ethically.
The again, the and the Facebook groups arecan be like big, big groups
or they can be like small,very small, focused groups too.
(03:16):
So it coversanything that is of interest to you.
I'd continue on with like books.
There's a lot of books.
And so when we were startingworldschooling,
I had a hard timefinding any kind of books.
I mean, maybe there was like one bookand it wasn't specifically to schooling.
(03:37):
It was like about a family traveling.
Around the world with her,you know, a mom traveling around the world
with her kids.
That one is called At Home in the world.
And that was like
the one book that I foundthat was about worlds going.
And now there's a lot,
you have this book called,
(03:59):
Hit the Road A Badass Moms Guide.
I haven't written herebecause I don't wanna mess up the title.
Hit the road, badass Momsguide for families who want to travel.
It's written by our friends Aly Polen.
And then,
another book called Wonder Year, which is,
has written by three ladies, butit's a guide for families who want to do
(04:23):
long term travel or who want to, like, getstarted on their world cycling journey.
Yep. I'd say on top of books,there's also lots of videos.
There are plenty of families, worldsgoing families,
nomad families that like to share videos.
One of our favorite families that we know,
is Jimmy and Sandy Fallon.
(04:43):
No, not that Jimmy Fallon.
So, do you mean Sandy Fallon?
Track. Called Trying Something New.
I have a great YouTube, channelwith all sorts of stuff,
and they're an RV family,so they their style of worldschooling
is traveling around the US in their RV.
(05:03):
And they have some international stuff on.
They've gone international as well.So that's a great one.
Yeah. I think the other one,
Oh my gosh.
Sarah and Massimo.
I'll include their,their YouTube channel in the
in the links too,because they have a great one.
They've been traveling around the worldfor probably about the same time, that we,
(05:27):
I think they probably started in
like 2018, but they've,
they've gone to so many countriesaround the world and that's just great.
Inspiration.
For like destinations,if you're interested in that.
That's a, that's a good one for contrastbecause we often talk about slow travel.
That's how we like to travel.
And they've been primarily fast travelfor their entire world's going experience.
(05:49):
So it's it's a nice oneto see kind of a contrast.
Yeah. Yeah.
In addition so beyond just like,
you know, finding videos,I think there are podcasts too, right?
Like,
you can
definitely listento the other episodes in our podcast.
(06:10):
But just type in, search up,
you know, worldschooling on like,your podcast app that you listen to
and you'll find a few other, podcaststhat are on that topic.
So I think beyond like worldscoring, specific types of resources,
what are some resources
(06:31):
that might be resources that you usewhile you're worldschooling?
Yeah.
So when we were travelingand we traveled around the world
from 2018 to 2022,
and did homeschooling while we were there.
So when we were traveling,some of the apps that we used
(06:51):
are we we relied heavily on were like,
Duolingo is a is a great one because you,
it gives us a chance to like,learn the language that we're traveling,
that we're of the countriesthat we're visiting.
I think you
you did like Khan Academy with kids
(07:12):
for math and also there's other topicsbesides math that
that Khan Academy is great for,especially for older kids.
And then if your kids are younger,like when we started traveling, our
our son was only fourand so he was learning how to read.
So we did Khan Kids,which is geared towards like preschoolers.
So that was really funfor him to use that.
(07:35):
And then
the other thing is,
we relied on like online classes.
So our school is a great resourcefor doing online
classes, for kids to do online classes.
We had them take drawing classes
and they did like,
(07:58):
drawing classes.
They did like a math class together.
They did coding classes, karate, ballet.
They even did when we were in,
spending time in North America.
We, had them take a class about,like, Native American history
so that we can and taught by,an indigenous person.
(08:20):
So it was really awesome to, like,have that resource available,
to be able to, like, offer it to our kids.
Yeah.
One other thing I wanted to mentionabout various apps and stuff.
There's also, number of apps.
I'm kind of an app geek that I love.
I love geeking out on what's out there,but keeping in touch with family
(08:43):
and friends is a huge part of what going.
And luckily we don't live in the daywhere Skype is the only option anymore.
Like literally every app out there,you can do some sort of video
conferencing call or something,
but there's some specific ones,I think, that have been really helpful.
We used Facebook Messengerfor kids, for a while because that gives
(09:03):
some nice controls to the parentson who the kids are friending.
So especially if your kids are younger.
It's a great way to feel safer about whowho they have contacts with.
That's really nice.
There's a great app called Marco Poloand Marco Polo is
simply just like quick videomessages back and forth.
(09:24):
So that's a nice wayto just have a face to to the message.
So apps like that,I think are really helpful
for kind of keeping communicationand then additionally like,
you know, sending picturesback home and stuff like that.
There's, there's a cool,
there's very cooldigital picture frame, by aura,
(09:47):
aura.
And they you can basically have an appthat sends photos to that picture frame.
So say, you know,leave a picture frame at grandma's house.
And as you're traveling around the world,update it with photos as you're traveling
so that can be things like thatare are nice ways.
They're not technically resourcesfor world's going, but it's part of like
keeps them connected.
(10:08):
Yeah, yeah.
The other thing to kind of
go back to like books is, you know,you don't have to bring books with you.
You can have ebooks.
And if your library or public librarywhere you're at
has like an e-book collection,you can have access to that through
(10:28):
most public libraries are availablethrough like the Libby app.
But you can also just like,you know, have a Kindle
or some kind oflike, e-book e-book reader,
that you bring along with you
so that you have access to books, to learnwhile you're traveling.
Yeah. And you don't have to buy a Kindleor anything.
(10:49):
There's Kindle now has appsfor every single device that you have.
So your computer, your yeah,your tablet, your phone, everything.
Yeah.
Do you want to talk about the hubs, too?
Yeah. Hubs are a great way.
They're a great resource for peoplethat want a little bit more guidance
or a little bit more predictabilityon the community
(11:11):
that, thatthat is going to be in a certain area.
So world's going hubs are essentiallyis there there's usually a fee involved.
And that for you can vary widelydepending on what you're getting.
Yeah.
And it can be we've talked about thisin the previous episode, but like a hub
can be as simple as like just a gatheringof people in a certain area.
(11:35):
Over a certain duration of time.
Or it can be as advancedis basically almost like an all
inclusive resortwhere your meals or activities,
your lodgingand stuff is all covered for one fee.
Yeah. And they are all over the world.
There are some in Mexico, there'ssome in Europe, there's some in Asia,
I believe there's they're just scatteredall throughout, though.
(11:58):
There's one in India and there.
Are like pop up ones too,that are just temporary.
That will be like a week.
And they're, you know,in different places around the world.
So yeah. Yeah.
And as far as I know,they are all created by families
that are currently world scoring.
So it's not like it'ssome it's not like it's a corporation
(12:19):
like Hilton or something that's tryingto do a world's going pop up and some.
No, there's these are all created bypeople within the community.
And they're justtrying to create that sense of community.
Yeah. Across the world. Yeah.
What else is there
do you want to mention anything about,like, coaching or the courses?
Yeah.
(12:40):
So I think the other thing is sometimes,like worldschooling
or just the thought of doingthat can be, a little bit
daunting if you don't have like,
a guide or something.
And I mentioned some books,
already and I forgot to mention, like
I have an e-book too, calledhey kids, Let's Go Travel.
And it's,
(13:01):
a guide for getting startedor getting planned for, a gap year.
So it does cover a lot of the,the things like
you would need to know if you're goingto be worldschooling for a gap year.
So I would I would suggestthat as a good resource for you as well.
But if you do need a little bitmore like hand-holding,
(13:22):
especially,you know, some families just like, yeah,
I've read, I've read the books,
I've watched the videos,I joined the Facebook group,
but I don't know,I still can't take that step.
Our friend Liz Queen offers
a great, coaching,
course or.
Sorry, she offers a great, like,worldschooling course.
(13:46):
That's like 12 weeks long.
And you sign upand and go through the course,
and she covers, like, you know,
how to,
like how to plan for your trip,what to do for educating your kids,
how to find a job, or like,how to find your travels,
like everything that you probably wouldwould be worried about.
(14:08):
Or maybe you don't even know,like what you're supposed to think about.
You know, to get started on Worldschool.And she kind of covers that.
And her her philosophy is to helphelp you, like become a digital nomad,
because that's, that's reallywhere you're going to get like the,
the ultimate, freedomto to worldschool whenever you want.
Yeah. So,
(14:29):
I encourage you to look into thatif that's something that you're interested
in, pursuing, like,a big lifestyle change like that.
Yeah.
But, you know, you don't have to, like,worldschooling doesn't.
And we've said this before, like,worldschooling doesn't mean have to mean
like a big lifestyle changeor going on a big, long trip.
You can you can be a worldscholarand take and be home based and take,
(14:54):
you know, a month or a weekin, in some place,
trips to two placesfor just like a short time.
And that's still worldschooling as well.
Yeah. Take spring break.
Kids are out for spring break.
If you're in traditional public school,
take the opportunityto go somewhere and live.
Pretend like you're living that dream.
(15:16):
So. Yeah.
Anything else?No, I think that's it. Okay,
well, that's all for today.
Thank you for joining uson this episode of Worldschooling.
Q&A with Astrid and Clint.
Be sure to check out the show notesfor any links we mentioned in the episode,
and visit my website,
TheWanderingDaughter.com, to dive deeperinto worldschooling and family travel.
(15:37):
If you like what you hear,
please consider supporting The WanderingDaughter on Patreon.
It really helps us outand keeps the show going.
You'll also get exclusiveperks like episode transcripts,
additional resources, accessto office hours with us, and more.
You can find us on Spotifyor the podcast app of your choice.
If you're listening to this on Spotify,you can tap the bell icon to get notified
when new episodes come out.
(15:58):
And if you like this episode,please give us a five star review.
It really helps new people find our show.
If you're watching this on YouTube, don'tforget to like
and subscribe and tap the bellicon to get notified of new episodes.
You can follow me on Instagram
at Wander Daughter or follow The WanderingDaughter on Facebook.
Links to these are also in the show notes.
(16:19):
If you have any worldschooling questionsyou'd like us to answer for future
episodes, feel free to throw themin the comments or send us a message
at TheWanderingDaughter.com/podcast.
Until next time, happy travels. Bye.