Reschooling Posts // December 11-17, 2022
Hi all, I hope you don’t mind a personal plug here: I’ve started offering a paid subscription of my personal substack swimming upstream that will focus on our unschooling practice. You can read a bit more about the offering here.
Also, there’s a zoom meeting tonight worth sharing:
Do you wish you could ask veteran unschooling moms some questions? Join the last Zoom gathering of 2022!
December 19th, 2022 at 6pm EST from Let ‘em go Barefoot
If you are not familiar with the Playground, it is an affordable Zoom gathering offered twice a month where I meet with parents and educators who are seeking more face time with other parents and educators. The goal is to be a space outside the noise of social media where you can actually get your pressing questions answered, bounce ideas off others, learn, share, and be inspired.
Parenting Without Fear
December 15, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Last Monday, as I walked into the supermarket ahead of my daughter Charlotte, she stopped and said, “Wait!” She waved a hand towards the flower display next to the shop entrance. “I’d like to buy you some flowers. Which ones would you like?” A smile spread across my face as I looked at the roses, chrysanthemums, daisies, and proteas, trying to decide what I’d like. Perhaps I should choose the least expensive ones? “No, Mum, I want to buy you the flowers you like best!”
Gratitude For The Holidays: Why It Is So Helpful For Neurodiverse Kids
December 14, 2022 from Raising Lifelong Learners
This time of year can be difficult for neurodiverse children. As part of our ongoing series about navigating the holidays with intense children, this post covers the value of gratitude practice in social emotional development and provides ideas and resources to help you help your child.
Modern Miss Mason: Leah Boden
December 13, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Leah Boden is a mom to 4 kids and a long time home educator. She is a speaker, a podcast host, homeschool coach and runs workshops sharing the beauty of a Charlotte Mason approach to childhood, motherhood and education. She and her family live in the West Midlands, England.
When an Idea Becomes a Reality
December 12, 2022 from Let ‘em go Barefoot
The Rainbow Room (a micro school) with Emily Gregoire
#32 Worldschooling and partnership parenting our teenagers, with Lainie Liberti in Mexico
December 12, 2022 from The Unschool Space
Today, I’m chatting with Lainie Liberti. Lainie is originally from California, but, in 2008, decided to go travelling with her 9-year-old son for a year. She closed the business she had been running for some years and took her son out of school. He is 24 now and they never went back. They’ve travelled extensively, given a Ted talk together on worldschooling, and they now both live in Mexico.
No Excuses: When adults ignore the reasons for children's behaviour, they can do damage which lasts.
December 12, 2022 from Think Again
When adults focus on children’s behaviour and ignore the reasons, they can do damage which lasts. Life isn’t a level playing field, and some children are pulling a much heavier load than others. Here’s how it works. Behaviour is part of how humans (and all animals) communicate. With children, it’s the part we can see most clearly. They show us, rather than tell us, how they are feeling. Distressed behaviour is rarely calm and considered. The distressed child might scream and cry, they might break things, they might kick and hit. They might run away.
Unschooling Strewing as Free Project Testing
December 12, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
An unschooling practice known as strewing, (the setting about the house of things kids might be interested in), is often framed as something parents do FOR kids. I've found that as often as not, it's very much handy for me as well. This morning, the 10 year-old, Mota (as he's known here), took a few minutes out of his schedule to stress-test the Rockmite's new keyer. (For those ham radio afficionados who may be concerned with FCC Part 97, the station was not energized.)
Unschooling Adventures: Berlin 2023
A month of urban exploration, social connection, and learning how to enjoy life on a budget. Ah, Berlin! Germany’s famous capital city. Full of art, history, food, fun, and… lots of stuff you can’t afford. Because you’re young and broke. But will you let that stop you? In this month-long trip, you’ll take on the challenge of enjoying a big city on a small budget. Armed with a public transport pass and a bunch of new friends, you’ll venture forth into Berlin to discover its secrets, meet its people, and create your own adventures. At night, you’ll return to our nature-based youth hostel to swap stories over dinner. Then we’ll dream and scheme the next day.
“Critics Warn of Parenting Style’s Possible Consequences” Oh My!
December 11, 2022 from Free Range Kids
Welcome to the bottom of the barrel! That’s where we find ourselves in this particular FoxNews’ segment (see below), as the anchor casts about for some reason — even a completely amorphous, garbled reason — to foment what Prof. Harold Hill called “MASS-TERIA!” And yet — he is foiled! As you’ll see, Hadley Heath Manning of the Independent Women’s Forum, deftly defends Free-Range / Let Grow parenting…and all parents.
