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04/22/2024

Explore the majestic land of the Incas this August! Bring your kids and enroll them in this world school hub, organized by Deliberate Detour. They’ll play with Peruvian kids, make their own chocolate, pet Alpacas and llamas, learn traditional loom weaving, and much more!

There’s two dates available:
Aug 11 - 25 and
Sept 1 -29

Sign up with the link in bio. Use code Remote50 to receive $50 off!!

04/21/2024

If you’re a homeowner thinking about traveling long-term, then you know one of the thorniest questions to answer is what to do with your house while traveling. Many people opt to do nothing — and just pay the mortgage on top of rentals in their travel destinations — but finding a way to monetize your house while traveling can be a great way to offset travel costs.

We asked a group of veteran traveling families what they do with their houses while on the road. There are no perfect options, so you’ll need to weigh the pros and cons to decide what’s best for your family.
https://www.remotefamily.com/house-while-travelnig/

04/09/2024

🌎“Our job is to prepare children for the future and if you’re feeling like it’s not happening at your school, there’s all of these other ways that your kids can learn,” says Tolk who took her girls out of school for two years to worldschool in 2020.

Earlier this year, Tolk founded Deliberate Detour, a travel company that designs worldschooling programs in Latin America. She currently organizes programs in Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. She offers 2-week and month-long program options, focused on cultural immersion.

Remote Family recently talked with Tolk about overcoming the fear of pulling kids out of traditional school, the importance of making local connections during your travels, and what she hopes families will gain from a Deliberate Detour experience.

https://www.remotefamily.com/deliberate-detour/

03/22/2024

📢📢📢Our partner at Deliberate Detour is offering a spring sale that ends TONIGHT.

Get $150 off the Cusco, Peru Worldschooling Hub. PLUS if you use our code, Remote50 you get an additional $50 off, for a total of $200 in savings 😊

Cusco Worldschooling Hub: Sept 1 - 29, 2024

https://deliberatedetour.com/cusco/

02/25/2024

This summer you can join our partner, Deliberate Detour, for a family experience in Oaxaca! There’s an upcoming four-week trip from May 12 - June 9 and a two-week trip from June 16 - June 30.

Kids ages 7 through 16 can be dropped off at the hub from 9:30 to 3pm where they will learn about the history and culture of this fascinating region. On any given day, they may learn about the mighty Mayan and Zapotec Empires, make chocolate from cacao seeds, gaze at colonial architecture and colorful murals on neighborhood walks, dye yarn and weave on a traditional loom… and so much more. During optional Friday Field Trips, they travel farther afield, perhaps to a nearby village that specializes in Oaxacan quesillo cheese or to the former capital of the Zapotec Empire.

Enrollment closes March 15, so don’t delay. Be sure to use the code Remote50 to receive $50 off the hub price!
https://deliberatedetour.com/oaxaca/

02/19/2024

✈️ Here are 7 of the most popular worldschooling destinations that Americans can visit without a tourist visa. Typically that means you can stay for a short period of time (usually 90 days) without a visa. These destinations all have a strong community of worldschoolers and educational opportunities.

Here are 7 of the most popular worldschooling destinations that Americans can visit without a visa. These destinations all have a strong community of worldschoolers and educational opportunities.

02/13/2024

🧠 From Erik Hoel //
I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age.

Think about the advent of the internet long enough and it seems impossible to not start throwing away preconceptions about how genius is produced. If genius were just a matter of genetic ability, then in the past century, as the world’s population increased dramatically, and as mass education skyrocketed, and as racial and gender barriers came thundering down across the globe, and particularly in the last few decades as free information saturated our society, we should have seen a genius boom—an efflorescence of the best mathematicians, the greatest scientists, the most awe-inspiring artists.

If a renaissance be too grand for you, will you at least admit we should have expected some sort of a bump?
And yet, this great real-world experiment has seen, not just no effect, but perhaps the exact opposite effect of a decline of genius.

Full article in link in bio

02/12/2024

🌍 The Bastianellis are among a growing number of families who don’t let having school-age children get in the way of seeing the U.S. — or even the world. These “roadschoolers” say their well-traveled kids are getting far more knowledge and real-life experience than they ever could from a book, a computer or even a typical classroom teacher.

“You get sights, sounds and smells — all the things your memory works on at the same time,” Jon said. Cultural visits like this one typically lead to a “rabbit hole of questions” later, Sam added.

Led by remote workers who took social distancing to the extreme,RV sales soaredduring the height of the pandemic. But these buyers differed from the empty-nesters and retirees that long defined this subculture. The newbees are younger —by about 20 years— and moreracially diverse. These mobile families include a mix of traditional homeschoolers and newcomers who pulled up stakes during COVID. In fact, withRV sales returningto pre-pandemic levels,industry leadersare counting on this budding customer base for future growth.

“This has always been an older generation, and now it’s become our generation,” said Christian Axness, 37, who left Sarasota, Florida, behind in 2017 with her husband and two children, 2 and 4 at the time. Last year, she co-founded Republic of Nomads with Stephanie Simpson, a former private school teacher from Indiana