Reschooling Posts // May 29-June 4th 2022
Ep 254: Listening Party for ‘E. for Exploration
June 4, 2022 from Fare of the Free Child
Grief. Avoidance. Funky energies. We’re wrapping up Season 8 with all kinds of feelings in the mix. How do we embrace or transform these feelings as they arise? That’s the pausewerk, and this week we arrive at E, for Exploration. “Noticing your behavior in that moment is about noticing that moment, which is really powerful. It grounds you in the now.” Akilah encourages us to trust the wisdom that emerges from a pause, and Domari shares a story speaking to this experience.
Our Children Have No Rules | MY EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY
June 4, 2022 from truly
PARENTS Adele and Matt, from Brighton, England, believe in an all-natural approach to bringing up their children. This means that they reject modern medicine and traditional approaches to education. Ulysses, 11, Ostara, six, and Kai, two, have never been to conventional school or been vaccinated. Instead, Adele and Matt have opted to practice a method called ‘unschooling’ where the kids choose what, how and when they learn.
When We Can’t Decide What’s the Best Way to Bring Up and Educate Our Kids
June 4, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Do you ever swap between the various methods of homeschooling looking for the perfect way to bring up and educate your kids? I used to do that. I’d try one thing after another, confusing myself and my kids, while never finding what I was searching for.
Leah McDermott: Developing Your Natural Learner | The Edvantage Podcast ep. #7
June 3, 2022 from Homeschool Edvantage
When most folks hear the term "unschooling," they assume it means some sort of chaotic free for all in which very little learning takes place. When Leah McDermott is the one talking about unschooling, however, you will quickly recognize how far off that assumption is, and how natural and powerful of an approach it can be.
Unschooling Myths and Misconceptions
June 3, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
Last time we talked a bit about what unschooling IS. This week, let's talk a little about what it IS NOT. We hear so many conflicting ideas on the internet of what people think "being an unschooler" means. Sure, we all have our own ways of connecting within our own families - and that's why we don't have a precise formula for what unschooling is. Still, there are a few principles that carry through all that unique-ness! And a few things you may read that aren't really true.
Radical Acts no. 9: Taking time away, fomo & more on child liberation
June 3, 2022 from Radical Acts
Hello friends, I took a little break from here, for various reasons, and it felt good! It felt good to own that I don’t always have to be working and laboring and producing, even if I do love writing this! It’s okay to have super inspired, productive periods, and periods when I don’t actually have that much to say. It’s okay to not have that much to say, to not want to be on social media much, to keep my life and cards close to my chest. It’s also okay to take periods to reflect, grieve, wallow, despair and hope. All of which I’ve been doing.
Exploring Unschooling Q&A, Episode 328
June 2, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
We have a new episode this week, and Anna Brown and Erika Ellis join me to dive into listener questions! We talk about navigating sibling and friend relationships, the idea of self-regulation when it comes to technology, and the journey of finding community and connection for ourselves and our children.
Radical Parenting Podcast S2E2: Unschooling with “Free to Learn” and “Summerhill”
June 2, 2022 from Radical Honesty
Tony & Kara discuss two seminal texts on unschooling, “Free to Learn” and “Summerhill” and explore self-directed education, the failure of traditional schooling, and the instinctive drive children have to learn through curiosity, play and exploration.
Whats the difference between nudging and coercing - Plus standing up for young people to other adults
June 1, 2022 from Rethinking Self-Directed Education
The biggest part of SDE facilitation, and parenting, is knowing when and how to support the young people. But the lines between supportive nudging and coercing can be blurry, and is especially dependent on our relationship with the young person. In this episode, we explore what nudging can look like, when we would and wouldn’t nudge, and the complexities involved in figuring this out as adults in relationship with young people.
Kids Would RATHER Play In Real Life than Online: Here’s How to Make It Happen!
June 1, 2022 from Free Range Kids
Five kids at a working class school on Long Island gathered to chat with me a few weeks ago about the afterschool activity they’ve been doing all year, twice a week: Playing. Plain, old PLAYING. The school started offering a Let Grow Play Club, whereby an adult is supervising. But they don’t organize the games or solve the spats. They’re like a lifeguard at the beach, only jumping in when there’s an emergency.
Declutter Your Homeschool
June 1, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Jaycel joined Tira Hunter and myself for a discussion on decluttering our homeschool. This conversation brought us deep into the idea that decluttering is not just about our physical space. Decluttering, like Deschooling is tied to our mental and emotional space. The lines of decluttering and deschooling are interwoven with the idea of letting go of beliefs that have served us for a certain time or purpose but that may no longer fit with our core values. These two practices are deeply tied to society and cultural expectations and the narratives we carry.
“Go Play Outside” Parody of “I Will Survive” — Start Singing!
May 31, 2022 from Free Range Kids
This whole movement needs an anthem — and at last we’ve got one: “Go Play Outside” to the tune of “I will Survive,” as written by yours truly and performed and filmed by the New York City Guitar School. Here you go!
Are You Projecting Onto Your Homeschooled Child?
May 31, 2022 from Lucy at Life Without School
Argh! Projection is happening left right and centre! Tell me about your experience
Learning to Do Less for Your Kids
May 30, 2022 from Freedom to Learn
For decades, parents have been implored, by various “experts” to do more for their kids. Parents are urged to speak regularly to their children (at least 21,000 words per day to preschoolers, even apparently if there is nothing useful to say), play regularly with them, drive them to places they need or want to go, serve as their alarm clock and calendar, choose extracurricular activities for them, watch them essentially all the time to be sure they aren’t harmed physically or psychologically, make sure they do their schoolwork, and on and on. No wonder so many think of parenting as a chore.
SDE/NL/Unschooling Curriculum and Assessment by Je'anna Clements
May 29, 2022 from Full Human Rights Experience Education
