Reschooling Posts // September 11-17, 2022
Quiet week on the web this week! If you have any other blogs or youtubers or podcasts that you enjoy, please send them my way!
Is Fatherhood a Hard Thing to Do? Maybe? Maybe Not?
September 15, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
Fatherhood is hard! Wait, no it isn’t: I’m literally drafting this missive while quaffing a beer in downtown San Francisco (the Mission actually), waiting for the kid to finish up a class. *Thinks back* Wait. maybe fatherhood is hard? So, “What the hell am I even talking about,” you ask? Here’s an example. It starts with car seats. Car seats are a nightmare! They especially were for one of the kids. I’d plop her in the car seat and she’d start to scream. She hated it! She’d continue to scream until we reached our destination. So, ok, that was hard.
Ten Questions with Jan Fortune, Episode 111 Flashback
September 15, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
This week, I'm sharing a conversation I had with Jan Fortune back in 2018. Jan home educated her four children in the UK and wrote many articles and five books on unschooling and parenting. Her book ‘Winning Parent, Winning Child,’ focuses on living with children in ways that respect their autonomy.
Should We Encourage Our Kids to Follow Their Dreams?
September 14, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
What did you want to be when you were a child? I wanted to be a writer. I had a cardboard box inside my wardrobe where I stored my scribbled stories about princesses, dragons and faraway kingdoms. At night, in bed, before dropping off to sleep, I’d think up stories about large happy families who were a lot like the Brady Bunch.