Reschooling Posts // June 26-July 2, 2022
Hey all, apologies for the absence! Sometimes life throws you curve balls and newsletters take a back seat. Happy to be back in the saddle. (How many metaphors can I work in here??)
Do Beautiful Photos Fail to Tell the Whole Unschooling Story?
July 2, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Can photos reflect the beauty of an unschooling life? We could post loads of pictures of smiling kids involved with impressive activities or running wild and free, surrounded by the spectacular beauty of nature. How about sharing photos of the stunning places where we live? Or visit? The campervans, the rustic cottages, the self-sufficient farms, the yurts, the attractive bits of our more conventional homes, the piles of interesting books and other resources?
Defining Success As A Homeschooler & Unschooler
July 1, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
This episode is a discussion from my Clubhouse community. Liana Francisco and I explore the idea of success. We explore our definitions and expectations around success and how that influences our homeschool. Have you thought about that? How does your ideas of what a successful person is influences your homeschool choices?
Notice the Learning
July 1, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
The world provides so many interesting and curious opportunities.
Kids are engaging in these all the time. As parents, our job is to notice the learning that is happening right in front of us! I spoke about unschooling at a conference in Texas recently. The most common question here - as well as everywhere else is: If our state requires that we cover certain subjects, what's an unschooler to do?
A Hundred Years of Children’s Freedom -
Summerhill School celebrates its centennial.
June 29, 2022 from Freedom to Learn
Have you heard of Summerhill School? In the 1960s and early ‘70s, most Americans involved with education would likely have said yes. In 1960, a book called Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing was published for a North American readership. The book was a collection of some of the writings of Alexander Sutherland Neill, who in 1921 had founded a radically alternative boarding school that eventually found a permanent home in Leiston, Suffolk, England, and came to be called Summerhill.
Can you be Almost Unschooling?
June 28, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
This past weekend, I spoke at a local conference about imagining education in different ways. I was the Unschooling Representative. So most people there weren’t really unschoolers or even that interested in unschooling. Of course, I talked to them anyway. One of the most common responses from those who HAD heard of unschooling, but felt they wanted to do partial unschooling and partial traditional homeschooling approach. Maybe you can relate? I think a lot of people feel this way.
My first piece of education activism… age 6.
June 28, 2022 from Sophie Christophy
My first piece of education activism – activism in the traditional sense of the term ie direct action – happened when I was 6 years old. It was during my second year in primary school. What had happened was, we were spending a bunch of time on writing practice.
Sexuality with Amy Lang
June 28, 2022 from Sage Family
Amy Lang, MA has been a sexual health educator for over 25 years. With her lively, engaging and down-to-earth style she helps parents become comfortable and confident talking to their kids. Amy’s books, online solutions center and podcast, show parents they really can become their kids’ go-to birds and bees source. Amy is still married to her first husband and they are getting the hang of parenting their recently launched man-child. She lives in Seattle WA.
From Waldorf to Unschooling School
June 28, 2022 from Lucy at Life Without School
In this video we consider how common it is for folks to transition from waldorf to unschooling, and at the 45 minute mark we ask the question "If you were beginning an unschooling group right now, today, what would you do differently".
Let's Talk Unschooling, Privilege and School Wounds: Lucy AitkenRead
June 27, 2022 from Twinkl Home Educators
You may have seen Lucy from @lutasticblog in a yurt, by the beach or in an online course... but this is the first time ever she's been on an Instagram Live! If you've followed Lucy AitkenRead's journey on her channel, Lucy at Life Without School, it comes as no surprising that this chat about unschooling was inspiring and insightful. Lucy gives practical advice on unschooling, discusses whether unschooling is a privilege and, in just over ten minutes, pass on a bunch of Homeschooling enthusiasm!
Radical Mothering no. 11: Creativity, making things and the state of the world.
June 26th, 2022 from Radical Mothering
This week I wrote about how our creativity as humans can be an act of daily resistance - and I believe it. I believe that making things is quiet rebellion. Making clothes, growing food, writing, painting, dancing, weaving, baking - whatever it is that fills your soul with joy and delight - are acts of rebellion against a system that will have us working to earn our worth (and our very survival), and that is now dangerously encroaching on our right to our own bodies, to our reproductive choices, to our right to give birth when, how and if we please.