Reschooling Posts // November 20-26, 2022
Would YOU Want to be a Kid Today? 40 Seconds to Convince Friends, Family to Give Kids More Free Time!
November 25, 2022 from Free Range Kids
What works when it comes to making folks think twice about constantly hovering, helping, supervising and scheduling their kids? The message they mostly hear is that constant intervention is good, and anything less is lazy or dangerous. So below, please find my very basic attempt at a little culture-nudging video. Can you please let me know if this is something — more short videos — I should be pursuing? Or is it something you can make, too, to further the cause? Or maybe your kids can?
34. The Evolution from Unschooling to Deschooling
November 25, 2022 from Radical Learning Talks
Whether you come to unschooling focused only on liberated learning, social justice, conscious parenting or from an intersectional lens, the pathway is layered and complex and usually leads us to deep questioning and transformation. In this episode we share about our entryways into unschooling and our evolution through the never ending process of deschooling.
Bringing It Home: Yes Energy, Episode 337
November 24, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
Anna Brown and Erika Ellis join me on the podcast this week for a new series called Bringing It Home. It’s a companion to the Unschooling “Rules” series.
When we’re learning something new, it can feel easier to reach for a set of rules to follow. Not because we’re lazy or anything but because we want to do it well! The challenge is that “rules” can soon become restrictive, hampering our deeper understanding. We hold onto the rule rather than digging into the why behind it. We want to get to the why because then we no longer need the rule. We can explore what it looks like alongside the nuances and uniqueness of our family. Of the individuals in our family.
You Don’t Need to Be Every Parent
November 24, 2022 from Happiness is Here
There’s the sporty mum who is always out kicking a ball with her child, the arty mum who spends hours covered from head to toe in paint with her child, the mum who never misses a bedtime story and whose children love to read because of this, the mum who always crafts up the best costumes, the mum who cooks everything from scratch with her little helpers.
Are Respectful Parents Irresponsible?
November 23, 2022 from Happiness is Here
When I talk about respectful parenting, all most people can hear is what we are not doing. We are not forcing them to go to bed at a certain time, we are not making them finish their dinner, we are not punishing them for bad behaviour, we are not making them do chores. They get so caught up in all the things we’re not doing that they don’t even consider what we are doing instead. ‘It’s called PARENTING! You are just lazy and irresponsible!’ they shout, making it clear that they think there are many things we are missing.
Homeschooling High School: Transcripts, Mom-Guilt, And Finishing Strong
November 23, 2022 from Raising Lifelong Learners
Homeschooling high school with an interest-led approach can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! These practical tips and tricks for assigning grades, creating transcripts, and managing the worry and guilt will help you and your child finish strong. It can be difficult to know where to start if grades are required for your interest-led homeschool. Whether it is to meet a state requirement or to create a high school transcript, most homeschoolers eventually have to determine grades their our children. But how?
Preparing For The Unexpected In Your Homeschool
November 22, 2022 from Different by Design Learning
There will be times where life throws a few curve balls your way as you homeschool. These are my best tips for preparing for the unexpected in your homeschool as well as an overview of what this looks like in real time, in my own life. The best laid plans…am I right? After almost an entire year of planning with you each week as part of this interest-led lesson plan series, we have had a major life event derail almost everything, including our homeschool.
Children don’t need curriculum, but they do need you.
November 22, 2022 from Happiness Is Here
One of the most common comments I get from people when they find out we unschool is, ‘my kids would never do anything if I did that’. There is this belief that unless forced to, children would not want to learn. That maybe they would watch TV or play video games all day and certainly not get an ‘education’. I have not found that to be the case.
It Will Get Easier
November 21, 2022 from Think Again (Naomi Fisher)
When children are unhappy at school and are reluctant to go in, this is often framed as ‘anxiety’. This means that the child’s emotions are assumed to be the problem, the thing which is stopping them from happily attending school. Mostly, adults will assume that they are anxious about something (school) which is not scary and so the work of parents and professionals is to change how they feel so that they can go back to school and everyone can relax. This is an approach which has serious drawbacks.