Reschooling Posts // June 5-11, 2022
Grace Llewellyn on The Teenage Liberation Handbook, 3rd Edition
June 10, 2022 from Off Trail Learning
Grace Llewellyn is the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, the founder of Not Back to School Camp, a one-time middle school English teacher, and a luminary in the unschooling movement. In this episode we discuss the third (and final) edition of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, released in late 2021. Grace talks about writing the original book in 1991, how it became an underground classic, how her views on education (and her relationship to her 26-year-old voice) evolved over three decades, and how the book was updated for the 21st century.
Flowers, Fishing, and Independence
June 10, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
Happy June! I got to hang out in a new place with the gang and my parnter yesterday: a beautiful place full of flowers, a place with access to a mountain stream that ultimately cascades into a reservoir, and a place I had absolutely nothing to do with discovering. A few days back, while headed out to fish at a reservoir we've been to dozens of times, my partner suggested that the 11, 9, and 7 year old gang of kids should take our two dogs on a hike back into the forest above the lake. The gang heartily agreed.
Unschooling Poster Kids
June 10, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
All seven of my unschooled kids went to university when they were 14 and got their degrees before they reached adulthood. No they didn’t. That’s wrong. I lie! But wouldn’t it be impressive if they had all done that? I could have written a book called Brainy Unschoolers: how to get your kids into university at a young age. I might have sold a million copies.
Making Learning Meaningful
June 9, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Did you know that the best learning environment is the one where we feel safe? The relationship has to be more important in education than the content. Monica Cochran and I explore this idea and all about making learning meaningful.
Unschooling: Embracing unstructured learning at home | Dave ten Have & Dr. Casey Means
June 8, 2022 from Levels
Levels Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Casey Means, chatted with our Lead Software Engineer, Dave ten Have, about his experience at home with “unschooling" his children, a form of self-directed unstructured learning. They dived into what unschooling means, how it’s different from homeschooling and how it’s been positive for his children and his family.
AERO Conference 6/25/22 FAQ
June 8, 2022 from AERO
What are the Dates of the Conference?June 25 – 27th, 2022
Will I be able to Access the Conference from Anywhere? Yes, the conference is completely online. As long as you have internet access you can participate in the conference from wherever you like on whichever device is most convenient for you.
Unschooling This Summer
June 7, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
It might be easier for you to look at unschooling - and look at your child - without all the pressures that come when the school season kicks off. I’m not talking about a Summer Reading Program, or seeing where you can slip in some math games. I’m talking about Real Unschooling. The kind that let’s the kid be in the driver’s seat - where parents play SUPPORTING roles instead of a DIRECTING roles.
A Reporter Asks: Is It Safe to Let Kids Run Errands?
June 7, 2022 from Free Range Kids
The fact that a question like that — “How safe is it to let young children run errands alone?” — is fodder for a news article just shows the era we are living in. An era when normal childhood activities, as well as normal parental decisions, are framed as a threat. Or at least something that requires an “expert” opinion. (As if, by the way, there’s a single answer that covers all kids, everywhere.)
3 Steps to Deschool Creativity
June 6, 2022 from Lucy at Life Without School
Honesty and Consent
June 6, 2022 from Sophie Cristophy
Making a choice to be honest, with our selves and in our lives and relationships, is crucial to anyone who wants to live a consent-based life, and who also wants this to be possible for the people around them. Meaningful consent needs to be informed and freely given. Therefore, if you want to be in consent-based relationships with other people, you have to be open and honest, so that they know what it is they are consenting to by being in relationship with you.
Putting Our Kids Ahead of the Opinions of Other People
June 6, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Have you ever put other people ahead of your kids? I have. And I wonder: how could I have done that when my kids mean so much to me? It doesn’t make sense, does it? Years ago, there were many times when I cleaned my house rather than spend time with my children because I wanted my friends, who might drop by unexpectedly, to think I was wonderful. I followed my kids around picking up their toys as they dropped them.
How to Avoid Taking a Job You Hate
June 5, 2022 from Blake Boles
The goal is simple
To avoid taking a job you hate
To never spend a Sunday dreading a Monday
To seldom submit to an authority you don’t respect
To not feel like you’re throwing your life away
The goal is simple
12 Ways to Support Learning to Read That Don’t Involve Curriculum
June 5, 2022 from Happiness is Here
Chances are you’ve heard unschoolers say that their children learned to read ‘on their own’, right? Cue angry people insisting this is not possible and there is one specific way that all children must learn to read, i.e. the latest curriculum involving explicit instruction at specific ages. The fact is, despite what people will insist, unschooled children do often appear to suddenly grasp reading all on their own. Not always! My children have all taken a slightly different path from each other.