Unschooling Series with Paige Carter (Parent, Advocate, Community Leader, Business Owner): Week 4- Hydrotherapy and Drop Offs

About this episode

In this episode, Dana Baltutis discusses the challenges and strategies of parenting during a week filled with hydrotherapy sessions and the comfort of screens.

Send us Fan Mail Change doesn’t wait for the perfect schedule, and neither do big feelings. We sit down after a long day to unpack a week where a 30-minute hydrotherapy session brought relief, the weather kept us indoors, and Oakland leaned hard into the comfort of screens and familiar routines. Rather than fight it, we explore why control, predictability, and co-regulation can be smart strategies when a child’s world is filled with packed boxes and looming travel plans. We get personal abou...

People in this episode

Host: Dana Baltutis

Guest: Paige Carter

Topics covered

• unschooling
• hydrotherapy
• parenting strategies
• co-regulation
• big feelings
• screen time
• predictability

Keywords

• unschooling
• hydrotherapy
• parenting
• co-regulation
• big feelings
• Oakland
• screen time

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Places: Oakland

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