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EU259: Nuggets of Wisdom from Five Years of the Exploring Unschooling Podcast

January 7, 2021 By Pam Laricchia 2 Comments

This week marks the five year anniversary of the Exploring Unschooling podcast! To celebrate, I decided to dig into the podcast’s rich treasure trove of unschooling stories and highlight a handful of the many beautiful nuggets of wisdom that guests have shared over these five years. It’s been such a treat to revisit episodes as […]

EU243: Parenting Shifts with Sarah Peshek

September 17, 2020 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Sarah Peshek joins me this week! Sarah is an unschooling mom of three and she shares the details of her journey and her parenting shifts from control to connection. Her insights and experiences are so helpful in really pulling out why this lifestyle is so amazing! How unschooling encourages us to recenter around the person […]

EU241: Exploring Race, Racism, and Diversity in Unschooling with Erika Davis-Pitre

September 3, 2020 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Erika Davis-Pitre joins me again this week! I rebroadcast her episode, Unschooling and Diversity, earlier this year and she graciously offered to return and answer listener questions that arose from that episode. The result is this amazing episode with so many actionable steps and layers to peel back for all of us on this unschooling […]

EU240: Kids Are Capable with Anna Brown

August 27, 2020 By Pam Laricchia Leave a Comment

Anna Brown joins me this week to dive into the topic, Kids Are Capable. It’s a foundational principle of unschooling, and seems simple enough, but it’s about so much more than meets the eye! Questions for Anna Choice is a great lens through which to start looking at the idea that ‘kids are capable.’ Paying […]

EU230: Unschooling in Context with Anna Brown

June 11, 2020 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

The idea with the unschooling in context episodes is to deepen our understanding of unschooling by exploring it in the context of other, related things. In this episode, we dive into unschooling in the context of parenting and examine some of the paradigm shifts around parenting and parent/child relationships that are integral to helping unschooling […]

EU219: Home with the Kids with Pam and Anna

March 19, 2020 By Pam Laricchia Leave a Comment

For any parents who find themselves at home with the kids during these uncertain times, Anna Brown and I dive into the value of using this time to embrace and strengthen our relationships with our children, tips for navigating sibling conflicts, and some ideas to get your brainstorming juices flowing for fun things to do […]

EU202: Unschooling and Connected Relationships with Liza Swale

November 14, 2019 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Liza Swale joins me to talk about her unschooling journey and the value of connected relationships. She shares some amazing stories of trusting, being open, and following the flow. We also dive into what she’s learned about staying connected with her two children, who have very different needs and personalities, and how they prioritize connecting […]

EU199: Unschooling Stories with Holly Johnson

October 24, 2019 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Holly Johnson is an unschooling mom with two children, and her family is currently traveling the world together! How they got to that place is an amazing story. We dive into the choice to remove a child from school, helping an anxious child, hacking their lives to suit themselves, and how unconditional acceptance and love […]

EU187: Time and the Wild Landscape of Unschooling

August 1, 2019 By Pam Laricchia Leave a Comment

I originally wrote this essay for Rosemary Magazine, for their winter issue, which had the theme, “wildschool.” I loved playing with that idea! There’s the outer wildness of living outside the structure of compulsory school. In the world, rather than in the classroom. Kids in the grocery store in the middle of the day. Running […]

EU184: Sprinkle in More Love with Shannon Loucks

July 11, 2019 By Anna Brown Leave a Comment

Shannon Loucks joins me to talk about unschooling, parenting, and her new book, Love More: 50+ ways to build joy into childhood. Shannon’s an unschooling mom with two boys and she believes in the power of play and partnership as a way to bring more joy and love into our children’s lives. We dive into […]

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