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Consent Based Reading Education

Practical pathways to consent-based reading education with the amazing Michelle Trasker, Literacy Specialist and mother of 3.

5 Steps to Begin Homeschooling

Five things you should do BEFORE you begin, or continue, homeschooling or unschooling, and can totally wait until AFTER you withdraw the kids from school.

Evaluation for Intentional Living, including Unschooling and Homeschooling

Evaluation is integral to every part of intentional living, including education- therefore homeschoolers and unschoolers alike would be well advised to add this skill to their lives, and practice it often.

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Unschooling: Self-Directed or Consensual Education?

Whatever value you have chosen to lead your unschool or homeschool, I'd like to invite community by releasing dogmatic beliefs about what path is the best path, and allowing room for growth and change on everyone's authentic journey.

Holding Paradox in Unschooling, Homeschooling, and Intentional Living

How can we be present with all the seeming opposites in intentional parenting and education?

Good vs Whole, and also Trust

What does knowing yourself have to do with trusting yourself? How is being good different from being whole, and why does it matter? What do being good or whole and trusting yourself or not have to do with unschooling, homeschooling, and respectful parenting?

5 Tips for New Homeschoolers / Unschoolers

5 tips to help you when the "shiny" starts wearing off the "new" in your homeschool / unschool.

What is wrong with school?

Top 4 things schools teach, why they instill them, and why I disagree followed by the top 4 lessons I think humans should learn, why I believe that, and why schools refuse to allow them.

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Learning Trust

Trust is integral to respectful parenting and unschooling.

Deschooling Back to School Season

How to beat the hype, get the essentials, and build authentic traditions.

Saving the World

The key to saving humanity is mere respect. Authenticity and respect ripple outwards through society, one relationship, one connection, at a time. It all starts with you. And me. 

Many Paths to Homeschooling

The 4 (5?) homeschooling paths I have identified and what beliefs each is based in. All paths are valid, which one are you on? Do you see others I have missed?

Normal is...

Our current status quo MUST change, before we allow ourselves to destroy... well, ourselves.

I'm not really a homeschool coach...

Sure, I help parents discover the best ways to facilitate their children's education... Of course, I help self-educating teens and young adults (aka dropouts) navigate education and adult responsibilities... Naturally, I help families struggling through the compulsory school system build the courage to step into home education... All of this is absolutely true. AND: I believe homeschooling, the way most families try and fail to do it, in no better than the system. I believe parents requiring ...

Perfect Preschool Curriculum

What is the best way to teach children? How do children learn? What do children need to know?

Change Is Not What You Fear

Everyone believes they fear change and new things, but what they actually fear is loss of their current comfort zone and feelings of security.

Unsubscribing from (hijacked) Consensus Reality

When the process a society uses to agree what is real and true and sensible is hijacked by a mass media controlling class, how do we save ourselves?

Deschooling or Unschooling?

What's the difference? How are they related? Which one do you need?

How Compulsion, Coercion, and Competition in School Undermine Education, Numb Creativity, and Destroy Self Worth

These pieces of our education system are dangerous, here are a few reasons why.

The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made in Homeschool and Parenting

Hint: you can avoid this mess entirely. Learn from my mistakes.


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