Living Joyfully

Helping parents cultivate a thriving unschooling lifestyle in their family.

  • Start Here
  • Deschooling
  • Unschooling
  • Parenting
  • About
  • Contact
  • Podcast
    • Q&A Episodes
    • Ten Questions Episodes
    • Interviews I’ve done …
    • TUC Talks
  • Books
    • Book Clubs
  • Network
  • Summit
  • Questions?
  • Articles
    • Spanish Translations
  • Blog
  • Resources
You are here: Home / Parenting / EU083: Unschooling Around the World with Tami Stroud

EU083: Unschooling Around the World with Tami Stroud

August 3, 2017 By Pam Laricchia 3 Comments

Tami Stroud joins Pam to chat about unschooling, the nomadic lifestyle, and large families.

Tami Stroud is an unschooling mom of six kids, ages four to thirteen. We have a great chat about her family’s move to unschooling, their journey to becoming a nomadic, sometimes expat, family, the threads that weave through the ideas of hard work, grit, entitlement, and rewards and punishment, and last, but not least, she shares some wonderful tips for unschooling with a large family.

Quote of the Week

“When you think about rewards and punishment in light of entitlement, that goes back to, you condition people to only want to do a thing if they are getting some sort of benefit. You create this reward economy that you are paying for the behaviour or the goodness you want, rather than people just being good to be good and to freely give themselves.” ~ Tami Stroud

Questions for Tami

Can you share with us a bit about you and your family, and how you discovered unschooling?

What did your family’s move to unschooling look like?

You and your husband have chosen a more nomadic lifestyle for your family. What inspired that and can you share a bit about where you guys have lived so far?

You have a great four-part series on your blog about hard work, digging into the question, “Do people do hard things even when they are not forced to do them?” I really enjoyed the connection you made between the conventional method for encouraging hard work, namely rewards for a “job well done,” and the development of a sense of entitlement. Can you explain that connection?

With the diverging interests of six children, I’d love to hear a bit about what your unschooling days look like.

What tips would you share for larger families starting to move to unschooling?

Links to Things Mentioned in the Show

Tami mentioned the Home Educators of Riyadh Facebook group

Alfie Kohn’s book, Punished by Rewards

Alison Gopnik’s books: The Philosophical Baby, The Scientist in the Crib and The Gardener and the Carpenter

Pam’s blog post, “I’m so proud of you!”

Tami’s blog, StarryEyedPragmatist.com, and Facebook page

Episode Transcript

Read the transcript here

 

Filed Under: Parenting, Unschooling Tagged With: deschooling, relationships

Comments

  1. Amanda says

    August 4, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you for this Podcast. My husband and I have 6 kids and have always homeschooled. We started with a “school at home” approach, but have transitioned to unschooling over the past 4 years. I have listened and read so much about unschooling, but get overwhelmed easily with so many people and have almost given up and gone back to more “school at home” But this podcast came at the perfect time. I love the idea of Managing the environment rather then managing ALL the kids. Such great wisdom. We also have minimal dishes and clothes. It is a Large family game changer. Thanks again. I really have enjoyed your podcast so much. I listen to them over and over again,

    Reply
    • Pam Laricchia says

      August 4, 2017 at 3:34 pm

      So glad about the timing, Amanda! And that’s such a wonderful mind shift, isn’t it? 🙂

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Exploring Unschooling Podcast Interview: Unschooling Around the World (#83) – Starry-Eyed Pragmatist says:
    November 1, 2017 at 3:10 am

    […] on over to the Exploring Unschooling podcast interview page to see my Quote of the Week, Questions for Tami, and Links to Things Mentioned in the […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

The Living Joyfully Network community

The Living Joyfully Network

We bring together unschooling parents to support and learn from each other as we question and explore many of the conventional beliefs around learning and parenting so that we can more gracefully navigate our personal unschooling journeys, develop strong and connected relationships with our children, and cultivate a thriving unschooling lifestyle in our families.

Learn more about the Network here!

free intro to unschooling ebook

Click the book cover to get the book from your favourite online retailer, or click the link below to join my mailing list and download the book directly!

What is Unschooling? A book about living and learning without school.

Exploring Unschooling podcast

click to listen to the archive of all Exploring Unschooling podcast episodes

Choosing to live and learn without school isn’t as intimidating as you might imagine!

The podcast archive is now home to more than 250 episodes, filled with unschooling goodness.

support the podcast on Patreon

Have you read my books?

Free-to-Learn-Cover Free-to-Live-Cover Life-Through-the-Lens-of-Unschooling-Cover Living-Joyfully-with-Unschooling-Box-Set-Cover The Unschooling Journey Libre d'Apprendre cover Libre para Aprender cover Szabadon Tanulni cover

Journey with us to a new way of seeing your child

icon-logo

Join Anne Ohman, Anna Brown, and I in our online Summit where we share the experiences, insights, and tools that we found most helpful on our unschooling journeys. We will walk with you from where you are now, to where you want to be.

Looking for something?

I've been exploring unschooling for many years now and there's a lot of content here! I've been working to tag things to help you more easily find information about the questions you're curious about right now. I'll continue to work on this.

Click a topic to explore:

college

dads

deschooling

food

grown unschoolers

learning

life

math

reading

relationships

relatives

technology

teens

work

Welcome to Living Joyfully

Pam ... an online resource for parents wanting to live joyfully with their children through unschooling. If you're passionate about exploring the world with your children, this site is for you. I'm Pam Laricchia, the author and owner of this site. Thanks for inviting me along on your unschooling journey!

MEET A NEW UNSCHOOLING PARENT EVERY WEEK!

Pam Check out the Exploring Unschooling podcast, with more than 200 episodes in the archive.

SEARCH LIVING JOYFULLY

Living Joyfully participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and the iTunes Affiliate Program. This allows me to earn a small commission, at no cost to you. I appreciate your support!

Read my Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Copyright © 2022 · Living Joyfully Enterprises

By using this website, you agree to the use of cookies. I use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help my website run effectively. OK READ MORE
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT