How Minimalism and Unschooling Intersect
Traveling turned out to be a big part of our deschooling process as a family. When public education showed us, for the umpteenth time, that…
Thoughts on Raising Free People: Tantrums
We rarely extend mood courtesies to children. For example, if a child throws a tantrum, we view that as them being “bad” or misbehaving…
Why Racial Justice and Raising Free People Can’t Include Coddling White Guilt
“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being…
4 Ways White People Can Support Black People in the Unschooling World Without Being Intrusive
This question came from one of my podcast listeners who supports the show through my Patreon page, and asked this question:
Privilege, Oppression, and Thoughts on Raising Free People
I am learning so much about myself as a result of our collective decision (Kris, Marley, Sage, and me) to shed the not-it shit, embrace…
From Outsourcing Oppression to Unschooling for Liberation
About six years ago, Kris and I stopped sending our daughters to elementary school. Our big idea was to make ourselves fully available to…
Navigating Unschooling and Blackness In the American Education System
My doctors consider my daughters medical anomalies; I prefer the word miracles. My health had been compromised by a painful disorder…
Leaving Plantations (mis)Named School
There have been more murders of Black people: Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma and (though at the time of writing this, reports say one…
The Power Of Unschooling: Why My Daughters Don’t Go To School
How does a 10-year-old Atlanta-based black girl with Jamaican parents, shoulder-length locs, and zero interest in school become deeply…
How Learning Happens in Unschooling
My daughters watched the video of Korryn Gaines and read some articles that offered speculation on what happened.
