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Interest-Led Learning: What About the Basics?

I made this outfit for my daughter for her birthday recently. It’s a tradition now. I make each of them something special […]

It’s Sunday afternoon, and as I type this my 13-year-old is busy creating a tapestry while listening to an audiobook. Her 11-year-old […]

It’s one of the top things people worry about with unschooling: ‘How will they learn maths?’ Most people see maths as something […]

Can I tell you a secret? It doesn’t really matter what children learn. It doesn’t matter what facts they memorise, what they […]

I remember when I first started unschooling I would try to explain to people what we were doing. I’d tell them the […]

I’ve written previously about the importance of not creating a school at home (if you haven’t read that yet, read it first […]