Reschooling Posts // June 4-10 2023
Embodied Learning & Ways of Knowing with Ieishah Clelland-Lange
June 10, 2023 from Consent-Based Everything
I chat to Ieishah Clelland Lange, writer, unschooling parent and Masters student of Indigenous studies. We talk about Indigeneity, Indigenous ways of knowing, the impacts of Western culture on consent and relationships, and 'embodied relational learning' and so much more!!
The Unschooling Journey- From Childhood To Adulthood with Missy Willis
June 9, 2023 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Missy is a mom to two, writer, and self-directed education advocate. As a trained teacher, she imagined a life devoted to traditional education, but in 2007 she moved away from the standardized schooling model with her own kids and hasn’t looked back. Let ‘em go Barefoot is the community and podcast she created to share stories, insights and research on conscious parenting and education. Her work has reached hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.
On the Journey with Sarah McMackin, Episode 350
June 8, 2023 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
This week, we’re back with another On the Journey episode. Pam, Anna, and Erika are joined by Living Joyfully Network member Sarah McMackin. Sarah is an unschooling mom to Eamon, who just turned seven. She also runs a restaurant in Austin, TX with her husband, Ray.
Interview with Crystal Byrd Farmer: neurodiversity, The Token, and future plans
June 7, 2023 from Rethinking Self-Directed Education
Join us as we chat with Crystal Byrd Farmer about her experience working with neurodivergent young people in SDE. We also chat about her book The Token, annnnd she reveals what her next book(s) will be about! You don’t want to miss this one.
Podcast: Five Surprising Reasons to Homeschool
June 7, 2023 from Brave Writer
Today, we’re going back to the root of it all to ask – and answer – one incredibly vital question: Why homeschool in the first place? Everyone has their own personal reasons, but I thought we could explore the origins of why we began homeschooling in the first place, as well as five reasons we think homeschooling could benefit any child.
#44 From high school teaching to unschooling, with Angela Harders in Maryland
June 6, 2023 from The Unschool Space
Today I'm chatting with Angela Harders who lives in Maryland with her two children, who are now 9 and 4. Angela was a public high school teacher for 12 years. And although she took her daughter out of school four years ago when her daughter was five, she continued to work as a public school teacher for three more years, until it felt too at odds with how she was seeing learning naturally take place at home.
"Children can't consent."
June 6, 2023 from Radical Mothering
Someone commented this on one of my posts last week, out of nowhere, then promptly disappeared. Ha! But it did get me thinking about how pervasive this idea is: children can’t consent. Not really. They don’t have the ability, they’re not developmentally read to, their brains are still developing (this is a favorite, I’ve responded to this one here), they don’t have all the information, they don’t know what they don’t know, they just don’t fully understand the long-term repercussions, they have no impulse control. And on and on.
I Can't
June 5, 2023 from Think Again
When children struggle to attend school, their parents are often urged to ‘nip it in the bud’. They’re told to insist that they continue to go and to return them as quickly as possible. The idea is that the behaviour will become ‘entrenched’ and that it’s easier to change things earlier on. Their reluctance is seen as the problem, to be solved by enforcing attendance.
Why Are We Willing to Endure the Pain of Parenthood?
June 5, 2023 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
While walking around our local lake, I met a woman with two chihuahuas. They were the same colour and size. The only difference was that one looked like he’d put on his long fur coat before leaving home, while the other was prepared to brave the cold day without one. I asked how old the dogs were, and the woman said, “Twelve,” and then added, “I don’t know what I’m going to do when they die. They’re my family.”