We learn so much about unschooling and how it works while we’re deschooling. I mean, that’s the point, isn’t it? Yet in my experience, that learning is never “done”. As a parent, I am always learning: learning about myself and my children as we change and grow, contemplating how our unschooling lifestyle flows and adapts […]
What To Do Instead of School – Part 2
Let’s pick up where we left off last week and dive right in! More stuff to do instead of school when you’re deschooling. Don’t Rush The key right now is building strong relationships with your children. Getting to know them well. Being open and allowing them to better understand you as well. Try to consistently […]
What To Do Instead of School – Part 1
You’re feeling an incredible swirl of both excitement and trepidation: you’ve decided to try unschooling! You understand that you, and anyone else in your family who has been in school, will be deschooling for a while. But without school, what will you actually do all day?? Great question! And now we have some seriously fun […]
Why Deschooling?
Last month we talked about a couple of the paradigm shifts that typically accompany the journey of learning about unschooling. Deschooling is a general term used to describe this transition to unschooling, where we expand our definition of learning beyond the classroom paradigm. Conventional wisdom tell us that learning looks like teachers and listening and […]
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