Reschooling Posts // October 15-21, 2023
[Webinar] Self-Regulation Skills for Neurodiverse Learners
October 20, 2023 from Brave Writer
You’ve asked us for a webinar to help you homeschool your neurodiverse kids. You want fewer tears and more peace. You want strategies that help unlock learning for these precious souls. We’re bringing experts in to help you!
How Well Do We Love?
October 20, 2023 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Driving home from the hospital, after sharing my dad’s last hours of life, I saw the sun rising over the cow paddocks, where trees stood knee-deep in mist, silhouetted black against the pink and orange sky. And I thought about how there’s immense beauty in the midst of dark grief. How we only grieve because we love. And how deep sorrow means we loved well. How well do we love?
Hybrid Homeschooling: Everything You Need To Know
October 19, 2023 from Different By Design Learning
If you are considering hybrid homeschooling, or are curious to learn more, this guide has everything you need to get started. When I first began educating my children at home, I had no idea what hybrid homeschooling was, much less how advantageous it can be. A decade later, with one graduate in college and another graduating high school this spring, hybrid homeschooling has become an essential part of our learning plan.
The Pressure Paradox
October 19, 2023 from Think Again
The Pressure Paradox is one of the most powerful traps in parenting. Stated in a few words, it’s this. The more you pressure your child to do something, the less likely it is that they will do it. The reason why this is so difficult for parents to get their heads around is because the Pressure Paradox is the opposite of how we are told that parenting works.
Going Deep into Deschooling with Sari González and Becka Koritz
October 19, 2023 from Consent-Based Everything
I chat to Sari and Becka about the nuts and bolts of deschooling: what it is, what it looks like, the places we get stuck and the ways we get ourselves out of them. I absolutely love how real they are about their own struggles and process, and how nuanced their understanding of deschooling is.
Find a Place of Belonging for Your Neurodiverse Kids
October 18, 2023 from Raising Lifelong Learners
Raising a neurodivergent child comes with unique challenges, including helping them feel like they belong in a world that often doesn’t understand or accommodate their differences. It can be an even bigger struggle to find acceptance when homeschooling.
Unschooling – What’s in a Name?
October 18, 2023 from Everlearning
Unschooling, self-directed learning, self-directed education, natural learning, consent-based education, whole life learning, child-led learning, worldschooling, delight-directed education – these are all terms that are sometimes used to point to the same general idea of living and learning.
[Podcast #207] Cycles in Learning and Housekeeping
October 18, 2023 from Brave Writer
What do the laundry cycle and the learning cycle have in common? A lot, actually. Today, we apply KC Davis’s take on laundry to homeschooling. In her book How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis talks about how the goal of the laundry cycle shouldn’t be to have all your family’s clothes clean at once. The goal is for everyone to have clean clothes to wear that day. The goal is to keep the cycle moving.
Declarative Language with Linda Murphy
October 17, 2023 from Sage Family
Linda is a speech language pathologist and RDI® Consultant. She co-founded Peer Projects – Therapy From the Heart, a clinic in Beverly, MA dedicated to helping individuals of all ages and their families by using a positive, thoughtful communication style that emphasizes understanding, patience, respect, and kindness. Linda has been working with individuals with social learning differences for over 25 years.
That Pediatrics Article about Declining Childhood Independence Causing Declining Childhood Mental Health
October 16, 2023 from Free Range Kids
This article in the Journal of Pediatrics — Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the Evidence — has been getting a ton of attention in the last few days, especially on Twitter, so we are updating our blog post about it. If the article’s title sounds like what we’ve been saying here forever — darn tootin’.
Inside and Outside the System
October 16, 2023 from Think Again
I’m a clinical psychologist. I’m not a teacher. I have never managed a class of 30 teenagers. I’m often told I have no right to any views on education and learning as a result of this. ‘Sit down and be quiet’, I’m told. ‘Stop talking about things you know nothing about’.
Unschooling Maths: why, what & how
October 16, 2023 from Radical Mothering
The question is often: But What About Maths? Are we just going to let Maths go, or like, can we unschool except for Maths? And HOW DO WE UNSCHOOL MATHS?!? Can we use curriculum or make Maths non-negotiable and still be self-directed? Well - first off, you can do whatever you want!
Brave Writer Precept #2: Kids Learn at Their Own Pace
October 16, 2023 from Brave Writer
The second Brave Writer Precept is: We are a family of learners—parents and children—making progress each at our own pace. Our kids each learn at their own pace, in their own ways. Home accommodates their unique needs so easily, when we lean into it. What many parents discover is what I call the “secret agenda” of homeschooling. As you teach your children, you discover the holes in your own education!
