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1KHO 578: The Freedom to Change Plans Is a Superpower | Amber O'Neal Johnston, Homegrown

What if homeschooling wasn’t a conveyor belt of quizzes and boredom—but the most flexible, life-giving way to raise whole humans? In this conversation with Amber O’Neal Johnston, editor of the new anthology Homegrown, we dismantle the myths: how Amber went from “absolutely not” to “never looked back,” why freedom to pivot becomes a family superpower, and how learning in community (like Erin Loechner’s “together schooling”) turns neighbors, potters with kilns, and adventure clubs into the world’s most joyful classroom. We talk confidence over fear, travel as teacher, Charlotte Mason and living…

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