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Snapshots of Self-Directed Learning
Self-directed, interest-driven learning is the way humans are designed to learn. Consider the newly mobile child, who has just learned the skill of crawling or moving her body from one place to another. …
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Of Hoop Skirts and Xbox Games
One of the fundamental principles in the unschooling philosophy is freedom….freedom to choose how to spend one’s time, to direct one’s life in the way that is most meaningful for that person. Living…
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Compulsory Schooling and Individual Rights
I begin to connect the dots between compulsory schooling and the underlying, nefarious agenda to slowly remove the rights of parents to “be” parents to their own children, and to break apart the…
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Why I Appreciate Our Lifestyle
I have two kids at home. And, as I witness just how different they are in their interests and in how they interact with the world, I find myself appreciating our unschooling lifestyle…
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Let It Go
It’s funny how some distance makes everything seem small And the fears that once controlled me can’t get to me at all It’s time to see what I can do To test the…
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Freedom to BE
As we continue on this unschooling journey, it becomes the lens through which I see the world. Unschooling embraces freedom, living our lives according to our uniqueness, placing an emphasis on connection to…
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The Art of Living Together
When I recollect my childhood, most of my memories are filled with images of being in school, or pursuing school related activities. There are 168 hours in a week; and, on average, I…
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We Are Unschoolers
Both my husband and I “grew up” in the world of compulsory schooling. While my husband never enjoyed school, I was the opposite. I was an excellent student — good grades, good behavior,…