Practical pathways to consent-based reading education with the amazing Michelle Trasker, Literacy Specialist and mother of 3.
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 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.
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.
How can we be present with all the seeming opposites in intentional parenting and education?
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 to help you when the "shiny" starts wearing off the "new" in your homeschool / unschool.
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.
Trust is integral to respectful parenting and unschooling.
How to beat the hype, get the essentials, and build authentic traditions.
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.
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?
Our current status quo MUST change, before we allow ourselves to destroy... well, ourselves.
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 ...
What is the best way to teach children? How do children learn? What do children need to know?
Everyone believes they fear change and new things, but what they actually fear is loss of their current comfort zone and feelings of security.
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?
What's the difference? How are they related? Which one do you need?
These pieces of our education system are dangerous, here are a few reasons why.
Hint: you can avoid this mess entirely. Learn from my mistakes.
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