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50 Ways to Calm down and Regroup When Parenting Feels Hard
  • August 5, 2019
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50 Ways to Calm down and Regroup When Parenting Feels Hard

The hardest part of parenting is probably controlling our own reactions, right? Our frustrations, our big feelings. How many of us were […]

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I've been thinking a lot about the difference betw
I've been thinking a lot about the difference between freedom and agency. We talk a lot about freedom in unschooling, but I think the focus should instead be on agency.

We can tell children they're free to follow their interests, choose what they learn, or spend their time however they like. But how meaningful is that freedom if they don't have enough access to the world to know what the possibilities even are?

Children depend on adults for so much: transport, money, materials, information, connections, access to places and people, and sometimes just knowing that something exists in the first place.

That's why self-directed learning and unschooling has never meant being hands-off to me.
I don't want to choose the direction for my children, but I do want to help make sure there are plenty of directions available to choose from!

Freedom matters. But I think what we're really aiming for is agency: increasing children's ACTUAL power to direct their own lives.

#unschooling #lifewithoutschool #freedomandagency #homeeducation #homeschooling


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