Reschooling Posts // May 15-21, 2022
All I Want to Be When I Grow up is a Dirtbag
May 21, 2022 from Notes on Adventure
A dirtbag is a permanent wanderer, a lifelong explorer. Making friends everywhere, sleeping anywhere comfortable. Refusing to participate in the normal economy any more than necessary. Not a grisled dropout but a principled opt-out, shunning complaints and commutes and complacency.
Of fishing line and bogs and owning problems (or not)
May 20, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
Two things happened today that could have been bummers, but weren't: one in the morning, and the other in the afternoon. In both cases, as a parent, I could've thrown a fit. One of the things was way easier to deal with than the other though, and because of that, I got to learn something about myself, and that was also kinda nice in addition to getting to have a pretty cool day.
Boundaries with Dr. Cassidy Freitas
May 18, 2022 from Sage Family
This is episode 77 and today I’m here with Dr. Cassidy Freitas talking about Boundaries. Dr. Cassidy Freitas is a mom to three, California based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice and host of Holding Space podcast.
Ep 252: Listening Party for ‘S. for Sorting and Shedding
May 18, 2022 from Fare of the Free Child
Peace #fofcpod fam! This week, Domari is in the buildin’ for our Listening Party Live Chat,and she and Akilah share some experiences and examples of zoning in on the letter ****S. in P.A.U.S.E. We also continue speaking about the differences between practice and process. As we question what Sorting and Shedding look like, our hosts share some examples where pause work might be effective. What can we notice or re-imagine in our relationships, language, and self-care?
Unschooling Conversations: Episode 21: Life and Learning as a Home Educated Person
May 16, 2022 from Live Play Learn
Tamsyn Fortune-Wood joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about her experiences as an unschooled person.
Is Homeschooling NOT Working for You?
May 16, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
Did you start this home education journey with one idea in mind, but the reality hasn’t ended up looking like that at all? Many of you were thrown into homeschooling because of the pandemic and you just did what was familiar to you. Even before Covid, this is often the pattern. It’s kind of The Evolution of an Unschooler. 😉 So, if what you’ve been doing isn’t working - let’s talk about what you could do instead!
The kindness of strangers – Connecting online with Lucy AitkenRead
May 15, 2022 from Adele Jarrett-Kerr
Lucy AitkenRead is an unschooling thought leader, living in New Zealand. Through her online community Disco Circle, she offers unschooling support for parents looking for more information and connection around the radical decision to protect their children’s freedom in education.
What Is Play?: How Children Define It
May 15, 2022 on Freedom to Learn (Peter Gray)
One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first examined the ways that play has been defined by other play scholars, including such classic writers as Johan Huizinga (in his book Homo Ludens) and Lev Vygotsky (in his essay “The Role of Play in Development”) as well as contemporary researchers.
Thanks for compiling these! I’m taking my time working through all my saved reschooling posts!