Unschool Parenting 101
It’s August. School is either about to start or has already started where you are. If you’re unschooling, life doesn’t change much except for the reappearance of school buses and Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: self-directed learning
One Smart Apple
Yesterday afternoon, I felt hungry and wandered into the kitchen for a snack. I grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl. It not only looked appealing, but that sweet, crunchy, Continue Reading →
Do unschoolers ever do things they don’t want to do?
I frequently describe unschooling or self-directed learning as kids doing what they want to do all the time. Because I chose not to put my kids in school, nor did I make any Continue Reading →
Love of learning
A child who is learning naturally, following his curiosity where it leads him, adding to his mental model of reality whatever he needs and can find a place for, and Continue Reading →
Choice words
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose Continue Reading →
I am enough.
All I am saying can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn Continue Reading →