Presentation by Blake Boles.
Category: Unschooling
What Adults Can Learn From Kids
Presentation by Adora Svitak.
I’m THAT Mom
Written by Dayna Martin for her personal blog. You know, that Mom that takes her children sledding at midnight, under the stars, making the neighbors secretly jealous because they have to sleep to get up early for work and school. I’m that Mom who loves to clean and decorate and enjoys giving my family a…
Learning Advice from a Learning Life
Written by Idzie D. for her personal blog. Learning is something very personal and very individual, so having found myself being asked for generalized learning advice, I find myself both eager to share but hesitant about what to share! So I’ll simply do what I always strive to do: write from personal experiences. Share what…
The Secret Ingredient to a Happy Childhood
Written by Rose Goddess for Rose Goddess Bliss. A couple of months ago we went on our very first road trip with David, our two year old son. It was soooo much fun! While on the road I was able to listen to recordings of Eckhart Tolle and read a couple of books, one of…
On Our Children and Their Education
Written by Helen and Mark Hegener, as published in The Voluntaryist, October 1992. None of the calls to environmental action ever go quite far enough. Unless some very real, very lasting changes are made, and soon, it won’t matter much whether or not we’ve saved the whales, or the spotted owls, or the forests. We…
For the Children: Save Yourself, Get Expelled
Written by Justin O’Connell, as published at LewRockwell.com. Hi kids, do you find yourself locked down at your local dangerous public school between the hours of 7am and 3pm five days a week (six if you have Saturday school) for nine months a year (ten if you have Summer school)? Do you find it a…
Play and (Don’t) Walk Away
Written by Nicole Olson for Unschoolers.org. Back in my mainstream days, I was an avid fan of the nanny shows. There were several on at the time, and they all boasted the same thing – that by using their techniques even the most wild of children could be tamed, that houses filled with chaos and…
Schools as Black-Holes
Written by Butler Shaffer for LewRockwell.com. There is an old joke about how knowledge accumulates in universities: students enter college, knowing everything, and graduate knowing nothing. In this way does knowledge continue to grow within universities. My years of experience in what is referred to as “higher education” inform me that there is more than…
When Does Guidance Become Manipulation?
Written by Jan Hunt for The Natural Child Project. Many homeschooling parents have puzzled over the distinction between “guidance” and “manipulation”. As a parent strongly committed to “unschooling” (learner-directed homeschooling) with my son Jason, now 17, I have sometimes wondered if I should encourage certain activities in spite of a lack of interest on his…