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Category: Unschooling

10 Essential Ingredients for Inspired Learning in Teens
  • February 22, 2025
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10 Essential Ingredients for Inspired Learning in Teens

Maybe it was easy to see your children learning when they were young. You set up a pretty invitation, they happily played […]

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Cheerleader, Not Coach: Why Your Kid Needs You to Step Back
  • September 15, 2024
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Cheerleader, Not Coach: Why Your Kid Needs You to Step Back

Over the course of a weekend recently, I spent around 30 hours at a dance eisteddfod with my girls. At the end […]

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The Unschooling Effect: Exceptional Teens?
  • August 22, 2024
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The Unschooling Effect: Exceptional Teens?

This afternoon, as my 15-year-old daughter and I were just hanging out at home together, she suddenly squealed and exclaimed, “I’m so […]

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What Are You Willing to Trade for an Education?
  • July 30, 2024
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What Are You Willing to Trade for an Education?

So much of the time as homeschoolers we have to deal with the opinions of others who think that by not sending […]

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Don’t Squash Your Child’s Big Ideas
  • July 10, 2024
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Don’t Squash Your Child’s Big Ideas

When one of my daughters was about 5 years old, she wanted to make a robot. Not a crafted robot out of […]

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Is Unschooling Too Focused on the Individual?
  • June 24, 2024
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Is Unschooling Too Focused on the Individual?

This may come as a surprise to you, but I never ask my kids if they want to go to homeschool group. […]

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Try explaining unschooling to a child who's spent
Try explaining unschooling to a child who's spent years in school, and you’ll quickly see how deeply the system has shaped their view of learning.

They’re not just unfamiliar with it, they often can’t even imagine it.

Because they’ve been taught that learning is something you’re given, not something you do.
That it has to come from a teacher.
That it only counts if you’re tested.
That freedom is suspicious, and trust must be earned.

The real lesson of school isn’t the content. Let’s be honest, most of us can’t remember much of what we were taught there.

But the lessons we learned about ourselves? Those stay with us.

Children are capable. They’re incredibly motivated. They’re curious, thoughtful, and full of ideas.

Until we 'educate' them out of these things.

Have your kids had these conversations with other kids? How did they explain?


10 Essential Ingredients for Inspired Learning in Teens
The Real Gifts Your Children Need
Cheerleader, Not Coach: Why Your Kid Needs You to Step Back
The Unschooling Effect: Exceptional Teens?
What Are You Willing to Trade for an Education?
Don’t Squash Your Child’s Big Ideas
Is Unschooling Too Focused on the Individual?

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