I'm Amelie
I left the classroom for more time with my own kids. Some of it for academics, but mostly for what modern childhood doesn't make room for: planning a meal, managing a budget, fixing what's broken, finishing what they start. The real-world skills kids rarely get to practice.
As heard on the Where Parents Talk podcast
Iloved teaching. The moments when something clicked, the small daily wins, the days kids were genuinely happy to be there.
But over the years, a pattern kept showing up. Kids weren't less capable. They just had fewer chances to practice. Days scheduled wall to wall, screens filling the in-between hours, and most chores and decisions handled by adults before kids got to try. The real-world muscle builds through repetition, and they weren't getting the reps.
I saw it in class every day. Kids who waited to be told what to do the moment a task came without step-by-step instructions. Kids who stopped after one wrong answer. And I couldn't close that gap from inside the classroom, not in the time we had.
Then I looked at my own kids, 12 and 9, living the same childhood I worried about for everyone else's. Growing up in the days I wasn't home. So after 15 years, I made the hardest call of my career and came home to them.
The shift
We still do math, reading and writing, just not at a separate desk. Planning a meal is fractions and budgeting. Fixing the bike is measurement. Running a small business is pricing, writing and negotiating. The skills and the schoolwork arrive in the same task, and that is the part a school day never quite has room for.
Most of our days happen at the kitchen table, in the backyard, at the grocery store or halfway up a hiking trail. Nobody is miserable, I'm not exhausted, and my kids are more engaged than I've ever seen them.
I started writing simple guides for our own days, and Anywhere Learning grew out of them. Not a curriculum, not a replacement for school. Just the thinking, planning and prep already done, built by a teacher, so you can spend your time doing things with your kids. At home, on the road, or on weekends and summers around school.
xo, Amelie
Kitchens, parks, airports, backyards. Learning happens everywhere once you know what to look for.
Every activity is built for parent and kid to do together: you, doing real things with your kid.
Open it, pick an activity, go. I do the thinking so you can be present.
No schedules, no sequences. Use the guides at home, travelling, or anywhere in between.
You don't need to homeschool. If your kids are in school, this is your weekends, summers and the hour after dinner. If you homeschool or worldschool, it slots right into your day.
In their words
Teachers, parents, and students who spent years in my classroom.
Certified Parenting CoachWhat I appreciate most about Amelie's resources is how empowering they are for parents. She helps shift the mindset from 'I need educational experts and structured programs to teach my child' to 'I already have what it takes to support my child's learning.' By sharing her creativity and practical ideas, she shows parents how to turn everyday moments into meaningful learning opportunities and adapt them to their own family. What I love is that her approach goes far beyond academics. These moments become opportunities not only for learning, but also for connection. When we slow down, become present, and engage with our children, we strengthen our relationship with them, and their relationship with themselves.
Kind, respectful, caring. She listens. One of my favorite teachers.
She's the best teacher and she makes learning fun.
She's a good teacher because it's fun learning with her.
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xo, Amelie
