Living, Loving, and Raising a Family on the Road with the Boundless Bronnekes

January 30, 2023

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An Audio Magazine all about RV adventures, RV ideas, and RV methods. Roads and Stays Podcast is hosted by Jeremy Storton.

This Month’s Episode Features a Conversation with the Boundless Bronnekes

In this month’s episode, you’ll hear from a household of 4—plus pets—about their journey from “the traditional life” to their model of the American Dream. Learn what helped them make the bounce, how lengthy they thought they’d be on the highway, and a few tricks to make life work higher. Listen to the podcast to learn the way they’ve discovered homeschooling, what they do on their journey days, and the way they hold their relationship intact—with skinny partitions and youngsters subsequent door. Check out some highlights beneath or the total podcast right here.

Meet The Boundless Bronnekes

James, Kestra, Wesley, and Ella are a household who downsized and began touring full-time in 2021 to discover the United States. For the previous two years, they’ve laughed and realized loads alongside the best way.

What Was The Final Push For Them To Make the Decision?

During the pandemic, they realized there was a chance to reap the benefits of inflated housing costs. The huge query they requested themselves that gave them the push was this: “Will we regret this (not taking the chance) if we don’t?” They realized they’d, and determined to push ahead.

What Were Some of Their Fears, and How Did They Overcome Them?

Most of their fears revolved round relationships—notably their children. How would their children keep away from the shortage of socializing with their friends? How would they do as homeschooled children? How would they deal with not seeing their prolonged household? And how would they cope with lacking their pals? These are sometimes questions loads of households have, and the Bronnekes gave some nice explanations on how they dealt with these conditions.

How Did They Tell the Kids?

They didn’t need it to really feel like they have been excluding their children from the dialog. They included their children, listened to their grievances, and helped them see a method by. They gave a few tips about make this occur—and it appears to be going nice.

What Is Homeschooling Like?

Kestra is the daughter of a veteran trainer and was totally ready. She talks about how she bought every little thing she wanted—or so she thought. She talks somewhat bit about how she shortly realized to adapt her instructing strategies whereas on the highway by tapping into some nice recommendation she obtained years earlier than.

Now the Bronnekes make the most of experiential studying blended with some curriculum to essentially assist their children thrive of their training. By benefiting from their travels and locations with Harvest Hosts, they can have extra open dialogues with their children. They use one instance within the interview of their expertise touring the east coast, and serving to their children be taught extra about historical past.

Maybe this dialog may assist another homeschool households. Just take a hear to search out all of the gems.

How Do They Stay Connected Intimately?

This is the place the dialog obtained somewhat humorous—and actual. There have been two nice quotes about staying linked and studying to dwell collectively within the tight quarters of an RV.

One quote was about having dialogue along with your partner to remain on the identical web page and keep away from main conflicts. Kestra basically stated to coach your marriage the identical method you’d prepare a pet—with optimistic reinforcement. Telling your associate whenever you like what you’re doing—as an alternative of mentioning their flaws.

A second quote was regarding the expertise of staying bodily intimate whereas dwelling in shut proximity along with your children. James equated this to parallel parking. At first it’s a tough factor, however finally you work it out—and it simply works.

They additionally present another tips about protecting intimacy wholesome too. There are loads of intimate moments that aren’t bodily. By increasing your understanding of intimacy, you may actually develop your relationship in a state of affairs that might be tough for others.

Living, Loving, and Raising a Family on the Road with the Boundless Bronnekes

Another spotlight of this interview was determining the best way to have tough conversations. James famous that with out his man cave he can’t simply stroll away from a dialog. He is aware of they should work by it. So altering the dialog from being towards each other to the 2 companions towards the issue has actually helped them be taught to have these conversations. Plus, they like to make use of driving days to go deeper in dialog, and actually speak issues by.