A real-world look at how we’re guiding our 5, 10, 15, and 17 year olds through life without school - what we’re coaching on, what’s working, what’s still messy, and how our role shifts as they grow.
How do I actually guide my child’s learning and growth? I know I don’t want to be a teacher, I know I want to be more like a mentor, or coach, or guide, but...how do I do that? What does it look like in practice?
The fear of "falling behind" wasn’t built on child development - it was built on logistics and systems. In this episode, we dismantle where that fear came from, how it still shapes us today, and what real growth actually looks like.
In this episode, I’m unpacking one of the biggest questions home educating families face: how do I know this whole thing is actually working?
For a lot of my parenting life, I assumed that if I focused on my kids' academics they’d be ready for adulthood when the time came. But the deeper I’ve gone into the research, the more I’ve realised how flawed that assumption is. Here’s what I wish someone had told me years ago.
Today, we’re going to tackle this fear head-on, through hearing directly from the only people who can truly answer the resentment question: grown homeschoolers and unschoolers themselves.
I was sent an email recently that I want to talk about here. It was based around the kinds of questions this parent gets from her mother: "How will your child cope in life if they aren't made to do things they don't want? If...
When you first step away from the school system, you leave behind all their built-in ways of measuring progress - the grades, the tests, the reading levels...In this week's mini-episode, I'm sharing the simple daily practice we use to record, track, and review progress in our family.
"I'm having a hard time striking the right balance between following my child's lead, and making sure they're also doing hard things and putting in effort."
You hear a lot about what you’ll need when you first choose to live life without school. The resources, curriculum options, books you should read, the local groups to join. But there's something else that matters more than any of that.
I've been thinking a lot about this line in my post from the other day: "We've created a world where a child's greatest achievement is being low maintenance."
With all the talk about following children's interests and nurturing their passions early, this is a common worry. But understanding what's really happening during this stage of childhood will completely change how you see your child's play.
If you saw my social post a couple of days ago, you'll know I spoke about the two thousand, three hundred and forty days a child spends in a classroom during their schooling life. It’s a staggering number when you stop and think about it. For more...
