24
Jun
Knocking Parenting Off Its Pedestal
Clip from a convo about deschooling with a spiritual mentor while in seminary (a year ago)
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Unschooling OG Ish
A commemorative garden of my writings and videos from the thick of my family's unschooling life (2012 to 2022). My daughters are now young adults and my focus has shifted, but the lessons and depth of connection continue to serve our family. Join this newsletter to read, watch, and listen. I will slowly continue to add much of the unschooling-related content I have put out into the world during those years, as well as newly integration unschooling wisdom that for sure will arise.
19
Jan
What I Mean By "Done" with Unschooling
How "quitting" is actually about embracing a change of focus
1 min read
22
Apr
Good Morning America Got Unschooling All Wrong (Here’s How)
Earlier this month, the ABC Television produced show, Good Morning America, published a blog post about unschooling titled “I tried…
8 min read
21
Nov
Do Unschoolers Use Curricula?
Our oldest unschooling child — Marley (age 13) — is ready for a curriculum. I know this because I am a magical, woke-ass, exceptional…
3 min read
03
Jul
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…
4 min read
30
May
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…
2 min read
09
Apr
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…
3 min read
06
Apr
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:
3 min read
18
Mar
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…
4 min read
23
Dec
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…
5 min read