What if you’ve been climbing the wrong mountain all along?

In this episode, Anya shares a moment of clarity from the middle of Seussville—yes, in the Cat in the Hat store at Universal Studios—where a quote from Alice in Wonderland sparked a powerful realization about homeschool, direction, and how easy it is to follow a path that was never meant for you.

Find out what Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Inuit, and the Maya families have in common. They may come from wildly different worlds, but each one teaches us something powerful about direction, trust, and choosing a path that’s truly your own.

So, if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, misaligned, or unsure of your next homeschool step, this episode will meet you with compassion—and clarity.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why “just getting somewhere” isn’t the same as choosing where you want to go—and how that mindset shift can change your homeschool.
• The powerful lesson homeschool parents can take from the Maya and Inuit—trusting observation over rigid structure.
• How to stop climbing someone else’s mountain—and start creating a homeschool rhythm that’s aligned with your values, not social media noise.

Key Takeaways:

1️⃣ Clarity Beats Motion: Like Alice, we can wander endlessly if we haven’t defined where we actually want to go.

2️⃣ Not All Mountains Are Yours to Climb: Just because a homeschool path is popular doesn’t mean it aligns with your values.

3️⃣ Observation Is Powerful: From the Inuit to the Maya to Montessori—true learning starts with watching, not forcing.

4️⃣ Your Child Doesn’t Need More—They Need Aligned: More drills, tests, and trendy curriculum don’t equal better—alignment does.

5️⃣ You Are Not Lost—You’re Pausing: Feeling stuck might just be the moment before your greatest clarity. Trust the pause.

Timestamps

0:00 – One question that can change your week

1:12 – Standing in Seussville and feeling the chaos

2:10 – The Alice in Wonderland moment that hit me

3:05 – How we drift without a clear homeschool destination

4:10 – The cost of climbing the wrong “mountain”

5:30 – What I really wanted from homeschool

6:20 – You don’t need more stuff. You need a path.

7:10 – Why I created the MKAP™ Experience

8:15 – What the Inuit and Maya teach us about learning

10:00 – Observation over pressure: the Montessori connection

11:20 – Sarah’s story: when creativity meets the STEM “shoulds”

12:40 – The freedom of building your own rhythm

13:25 – If you feel like Alice—you’re not lost

14:10 – Clarity over comparison. Joy over perfection.

Resources & Links

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📚 Research & Sources Mentioned

• Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6: "Pig and Pepper" (1865)
• Research on Inuit and Maya families referenced in the work of Dr. Barbara Rogoff, cultural psychologist and author of The Cultural Nature of Human Development (2003), and in various ethnographic studies of indigenous learning practices.
• Montessori, M. (1967). The absorbent mind (C.A. Claremont, Trans.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Original work published 1949)
• Ducey, M. (2021). Hunt, gather, parent: What ancient cultures can teach us about the lost art of raising happy, helpful little humans. Simon & Schuster.

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