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
  • Summit
  • Blog
    • Monthly Topics
  • Articles
    • Spanish Translations
  • Resources
You are here: Home / Unschooling / EU088: Deschooling – A Year Later, with Jennie Gomes

EU088: Deschooling – A Year Later, with Jennie Gomes

September 7, 2017 By Pam Laricchia 2 Comments

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pamlaricchia.podcast/EU088.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Jennie Gomes joins Pam to talk about deschooling, a year after their first conversation.

Jennie Gomes is an unschooling mom to three young children and we thought we’d do something interesting. Jennie was on the podcast just over a year ago, episode 25, and we chatted about her deschooling journey. She graciously agreed to come back on the show to answer the same questions, but now with another year of unschooling experience under her belt. That means you guys can listen to her previous episode and then this episode to see how her understanding of unschooling has evolved over the past year and how things have changed in how it plays out in their daily lives.

Quote of the Week

“I feel like it’s her trust in us and confidence in herself that catapults her development.” ~ Jennie Gomes

Questions for Jennie

Can you share with us a bit about you and your family and how you first came across the idea of unschooling?

What were some of your bigger fears or uncertainties as you first began unschooling and what do they look like now?

Has your relationship with your husband changed as your family has embraced unschooling?

Can you share what you’ve learned as you move away from control and punishment as parenting tools? Are there patterns you’ve discovered?

How do you handle the daily challenges that come with having three children of different ages, temperaments, and interests?

The curiosity and energy of young kids is just incredible, isn’t it? What are some of the little things you do during the day to recharge your own energy?

What’s been the hardest part of your unschooling journey so far?

What’s been the easiest part of your journey?

Links to Things Mentioned in the Show

Find info about the Childhood Redefined Summit at childhoodredefined.com

Jennie’s first conversation with Pam, EU025: Deschooling with Jennie Gomes

Sandra Dodd’s second conversation with Pam, EU071: Changes in Parents with Sandra Dodd

Sandra Dodd’s daily email, Just Add Light and Stir the post, ‘Two-way change’, and her page on freedom

You can find Jennie on Facebook and as admin of the Facebook group, Ontario Unschoolers

Episode Transcript

Read the transcript here

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

Comments

  1. Amy Martinez says

    September 8, 2017 at 6:36 am

    Just had to say, I absolutely loved this episode. So many times, I wished I was inside the conversation to say, “Yes!” or “Amen to that, sister!” I especially felt connected to you and Jennie while she talked about how the philosophy of unschooling helped her to respect and appreciate her husband better and when expressing how lonely unschooling can be in the real world. Thanks to both of you.

    Reply
    • Pam Laricchia says

      September 8, 2017 at 6:53 am

      Thanks for sharing, Amy! I love the connections you experienced. 🙂

      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 200 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

Connect with Pam

    Glyph_Logo_png 

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 © 2021 · Living Joyfully Enterprises

I use cookies to ensure that I give you the best experience on this website. If you continue to use this site, I will assume that you are happy with this. Thank you. 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.