186: Criticism, Reviews, and Paying it Forward

Stories of an Unschooling Family

This week, Imogen and I have a lively conversation about:

• The highs and lows that affect our parenting, homeschooling and creative lives
• Criticism: why do we let other people's opinions affect what we do? Whose opinions should we listen to? Why we shouldn't let criticism stop us from using our talents
• Reviews: why we don't ask for many reviews
• Writing about things we have never experienced
• Paying it Forward: is free online stuff really free?

We're also discussing some books and movies.

And we're telling stories about:

• how to remove a dead tree
• cockroaches
• how I might have made a difference to the lives of the world's dogs
• and many other things

Show Notes

Things we mention in this episode:

Tamworth

Botanic gardens and Marsupial Park

Country Music Festival

Gunnedah

Silo Art: Dorothea MacKellar and her poem, My Country

Water Tower Art: The Long Tan Battle of the Vietnam War

Silo Art at Barraba

Book

Show Your Work: Ten Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon

Tin Tin comics and Netflix shows

Movies and Series

The Greatest Showman

Les Mis

Oklahoma

Hamilton

The Crown

The Chosen

My Unschooling Books

Curious Unschoolers: Kindle

Curious Unschoolers: paperback

Radical Unschool Love: Kindle

Radical Unschool Love: paperback

My Amazon Author Page

Where You Can Find Me

Unschooling Community

My Stories of an Unschooling Family community

Youtube

Sue Elvis

Blogs

Stories of an Unschooling Family

Where the Carol Birds Sing

Instagram

sue_elvis

Where You Can Find Imogen

Blog

Write.Rewrite.Read

Instagram

write.rewrite.read

Youtube

Imogen Elvis

Books

The Crystal Tree

The Shattering Song

Frost Hands

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