Sophie Christophy lives in the UK and is unschooling with her husband and two children. She is a self-directed scholar and she joins Pam to chat about her personal Unschooled Master of Arts project: to explore the theory that the key to transformative social change is found via shifting parent-child education/child dynamics to a human rights model. […]
EU071: Changes in Parents with Sandra Dodd
Sandra Dodd is a long-time unschooling mom of three—Kirby, Marty, and Holly—who are now all adults. She’s also the creator of the awesome unschooling resource, sandradodd.com, and I’m thrilled to have her back on the podcast. In this episode, we talk about the changes that we go through as parents as we live this unschooling lifestyle […]
Unschooling and Critical Thinking
NOTE: This is excerpted from my introduction to the podcast episode, Unschooling and Technology, but I think it stands nicely in its own as well. 🙂 ~~~ Readers may have noticed over the many years I’ve been writing and talking about unschooling that I’m not big on sharing studies. There are a few reasons for that. […]
EU062: Being and Becoming film review with Anne Boie
Anne Boie is an unschooling mom of four who is actively engaged in supporting the unschooling community as a producer of Lainie Liberti’s For the Love of Learning web show, the US distribution coordinator for the film, Being and Becoming, and the producer of a new online show, Youth on Subjects of the World. Anne […]
EU037: Ten Questions with Carol Black
Carol Black unschooled her two daughters, now 22 and 26. Years ago she was in a teacher education program, but when she read John Holt’s How Children Fail the light bulb went off and she dropped out. Since then she has written some wonderfully insightful essays about unschooling, which you can read on her website, carolblack.org, […]
EU035: Redefining Success with Jo Isaac
Jo Isaac is a zoologist turned science writer and unschooling mom to Kai. She, ten-year-old Kai, and her husband Brett, live and learn in Melbourne, Australia. Her path of learning and unschooling has taken a number of interesting twists and turns and I really enjoyed hearing about some of them as we chat about ways we […]
The Ultimate Boon: Unschooling with Confidence and Grace
We made it! We have achieved the goal of our quest, the ultimate boon: we are unschooling. Our relationships with our children are strong and connected and we are confidently living and learning together as a family. We are enjoying life, with its ups and down and twists and turns. This moment isn’t lit up […]
Atonement with the Father: Accepting Others Where They Are
With this stage we have reached the midpoint of our journey, so let’s get right to it! Now we’re confronting “the ogre aspect of the father.” (p. 105, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces) This one’s all about power, with the father representing whatever the hero (that’s you!) feels holds the ultimate power […]
Woman as the Temptress: Accepting Our Nature
The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero’s passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale. (p. 101, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces) I’ve been quite amazed so far at how well the unschooling journey has aligned […]
The Meeting with the Goddess: Seeing the Value in All Experiences
At this point in our journey we’ve navigated the road of trials, though I’d like to point out that, in my experience, our trials are never completely “done.” There will be more challenges in the future; certainly as our children get older, new situations will arise. For example, my eldest was ten when I did […]
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