Reschooling Posts // August 7-13 2022
Sharing the Ice Cream and Rejecting Tough Love
August 13, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
There’s a woman on YouTube who sips wine from a large glass while digging into a family-sized bucket of ice cream. She has some advice for parents. Her message goes something like this: Parents take back the reins. Forget all this being friends stuff. Show some tough love. It doesn’t matter if our kids protest and say such things as, “I don’t like you!” Hey, parenting isn’t a popularity contest. Take control. The battle is on, and we’re going to win.
Literacy- Games and Storytelling with Michael Low
August 12, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Michael Low is a writing teacher and curriculum developer with over two decades of experience. He's also a tabletop game designer who designs and runs story-telling games for kids from 7-13 that use the inspirational, collaborative nature of role-playing to get kids writing page after page for the sheer joy of it. You can find his writing classes (homeschool accredited) at LuckOfLegends.com, and his print to play at home monthly games and podcast at StoriesRPG.com.
An Unschooling Journey with Jae Williams, Part 2, Episode 331
August 11, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
Jae Williams is a former teacher and new unschooling dad of two young children. We first spoke when he was about two months into his unschooling journey, in episode 290. It's been a year now and we had so much to catch up on! Jae and I talked about the inner work of deschooling, the joy of an unschooling, routines versus structure, and the way unschooling expands into all areas of life.
A Dad Asks Us To Suggest Books, Toys, Electronics and Activities to Make His Kids Independent
August 10, 2022 from Free Range Kids
A dad who just read Free-Range Kids dropped a note to ask for more SPECIFIC advice. Busted! My book is about how our culture crammed fear down our throats, not granular advice on how to raise a child. So that’s why I’m turning this over to YOU! His questions are below. Note that his kids are little now, but he wants the 5-year-old to start feeling her oats and is, of course, thinking ahead.
Independent Learning Theory
August 9, 2022 from Independent Learning School
Independent study involves processing, methodology and philosophy of education whereby a learner acquires knowledge and develops the ability for enquiry and critical evaluation. Independent Learning Theory is related to the following terms: Independent learning, Self-directed learning, Autonomous learning
It's Called Unschooling
August 8, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
I don’t like labels. I feel that as learners outside of the institution of school we don’t have to rush putting ourselves into a new box or label. Or that our learning life (unschooling life) is how we choose to define it. But as a friend recently shared with me (as we had a very interesting conversation about unschooling, control, trust and partnership), that having parameters around a word (or label) can be helpful.
Consent, nuance and mutuality
August 7, 2022 from Radical Mothering
I want to talk about consent and why it matters. But before I do, I want to say that the context of this is my more recent attempts to be less uncompromising, less fundamentalist, about things. To sit in the grey areas (@raisingalegacy has a fab post on this, and her stories are so thought-provoking), to lean into nuance. Because often I find myself really hardening - and often, while mothering and living, I’ve found myself taking pretty hard stances on things.
Happiness is the Feeling That Power Increases
August 7, 2022 from Blake Boles
I snap a photo of the Buenos Aires taxi before it drives away with three teenage girls inside. The girls are participants on my Unschool Adventures trips to Buenos Aires, and they’ve discovered a strange, religious-themed amusement park that they want to visit. Their plan seems sound, so I help them order a taxi, make sure they have a charged cell phone, and wave goodbye as they beeline across the city.
