This is a video from the “ASK ME ANYTHING” session with Charlotte Snyder, from April 12th, 2026.
Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their thoughtful questions!
In this video
Charlotte Snyder's April 2026 live Q&A starts with teachers and how they can support the families in their school. It then turns to parents of toddlers and preschoolers, with questions about choosing a preschool for a 21-month-old and three-year-olds who drop their homeschool work. Other chapters take up phonics games a child refuses, and whether a long uninterrupted work period belongs at home. It ends with a defiant three-year-old.
Chapters
- 0:00 How to get families to use resources like the club
- 4:08 Answering parents' questions with kindness, never judgment
- 8:11 You can't want it more than the family does
- 17:33 Choosing a preschool for a 21-month-old by your own values
- 25:19 Rank your priorities, visit in person and trust your choice
- 34:06 When a family won't sign the form for speech therapy
- 41:54 Three-year-old twins drop homeschool work: movement is work
- 49:01 Chores and gardening as your homeschool curriculum
- 56:57 Slowing down so they can dress, cook and fold napkins
- 1:06:31 Set homeschool days: what really draws them is time with you
- 1:10:00 When they refuse phonics games, play sound games at lunch
- 1:16:50 Why self-efficacy matters most, from socks to Lego
- 1:20:53 Why you don't need a three-hour work cycle at home
- 1:25:55 Why toys and learning materials can share one shelf
- 1:33:43 You're the expert in your child, and it's okay to experiment
- 1:40:31 A defiant three-year-old: from compliance to cooperation
- 1:43:26 Giving two neutral choices and following through
- 1:47:42 Don't punish the behavior you want to see repeated
