HIHTK: Episode 007 Jaime Salonen-“Escaping The Rat Race and Worldschooling”

Summary: Worldschooling Mom Jamie Salonen Jaime is a business owner, wife, mother to two wonderful daughters. She does all of this while worldschooling. We caught up this summer while they were back in Canada before heading out again for their next journey to Mexico. Other ways to enjoy this Podcast<a title="Listen on iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/honey-im-homeschooling-the-kids/id1272423047" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a title="Listen on Google Play" href="https://play.google.com/music/listen?t=Honey!_I%27m_Homeschooling_The_Kids&pcampaignid=MKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16&u=0&view=/ps/I2zvkou6ephyzybp2fc6f2ea3lm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a title="Listen on Stitcher" href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=147912&refid=stpr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> Willing To Do Things Differently Jaime has always thought differently from others and never really wanted to follow the crowd. Both her and and her husband question society a lot more than others and are willing to do things differently. This is apparent in the way they live their life, and educate their children. Their daughters entered school from preschool. When their eldest was getting ready for grade 1 they began to evaluate what they wanted for their family. Family time is extremely important and with school, activities and work they knew they would be very busy. Russ, Jaime’s husband had the idea to homeschool. They both knew nothing about it. Russ supported Jamie as the full time stay-at-home parent at that time. They started homeschooling their daughters before transitioning to worldschooling. The Start of Wordlschooling Before they started their family Jaime and her husband traveled together in Australia. They lived on savings for 6 months while they toured the country. When they returned to Canada they kept hopes of one day traveling again. The start of their travel was when their oldest daughter was one year old. They took 6 weeks touring BC in a tent trailer then a few years later they took a 4 month trip. Jaime was the working parent then and her husband was the stay-at-home parent. Jaime took a 4 month leave so the family could travel up and down the coast of Canada and the US. During that trip they met a full time travelling family in Whitehorse that they connected with. This connection was the inspiring spark for their family to step into full time travel. “If they can do that, why can’t we?” Jaime and her family took 9 months to get rid of everything in their home to transition and move into their 25 foot travel trailer. In the beginning of November 2016 they left Canada for 6 months in Australia and 3 weeks in Bali. Full Time Worldschooling Their family now consider themselves worldschoolers that started out as homeschoolers. Jaime says that in the beginning they over thought it- worrying about their girls falling behind in their learning. When they started travelling Jaime says she took too much weight in books in her backpack. One thing she has learned in her journey “The way we want to teach it is not necessarily the way they want to learn it.” They went away from the book work, especially with travel. She feels that travel is one of the best forms of education. “You learn so much about yourself, you learn so much about the world around you, about what you are capable of. It challenges you in every way. It pushes you to think outside the box and come up with solutions.” “Learn as you go- don’t overthink it.”

HIHTK: Episode 007 Jaime Salonen-“Escaping The Rat Race and Worldschooling”

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