As part of exploring and understanding unschooling, we think long and hard about our own childhood: our learning experiences (in which situations did we learn more? remember more?); our school …
Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
A few months ago I was in conversation with someone and we ended up at the old saying, “you can't teach an old dog new tricks.” Us adults being the “old dogs,” of course because when talking about …
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When Unschooling Children Discover Their Lives Are Unconventional
As unschooling parents, we’ve chosen this unschooling lifestyle for our family. In doing so, we decided that although it’s unconventional, the benefits outweigh the challenges. Or else we’d have …
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The Fear of Your Child Choosing School
What if my child wants to go (back) to school? It’s a fear I’ve seen come up online pretty regularly, and one I experienced myself a couple of times in our first few years. I still remember it …
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Ways to Build Trust in Each Other
In my experience, a trusting relationship with my children is the backbone of our unschooling lives. And that trust goes both ways: my trust in them, and their trust in me. It is so important …
Ways to Build Trust in Unschooling
Unschooling as a way of learning and living is unconventional. In general, conventional society trusts the school system as an effective process for learning, where trust is a reasonably confident …