Exploring Unschooling

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EU195: Unschooling Stories with Renee Cabatic Sep 26, 2019

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Renee Cabatic, the mother of two unschooled teens, joins me this week to share some wonderful stories from their lives. We dive into passions and comfort zones, college and quitting, agency and self-efficacy, and lots more. Watch the video on YouTube QUESTIONS FOR RENEE Can you share with us a bit about you and your […]

EU194: Stretching Our Comfort Zones Sep 19, 2019

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Compilation episode time! This time, let’s explore the idea of stretching our comfort zones. This can come up in various ways along our unschooling journey. Often, we first encounter it when we’re actively deschooling and questioning so much of the conventional wisdom around learning and parenting that we’ve absorbed growing up. We can also find […]

EU193: Unschooling Younger Kids with Martha Delmore Sep 12, 2019

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Martha Delmore joins me this week to talk about unschooling with younger children. Unschooling wasn’t on her radar before she had kids—she’s a former high school teacher—but her desire to maintain and enhance her relationships with them led her down this unexpected path. We dive into attachment parenting, when family members question our choices, the […]

EU192: Unschooling to College with Amy Milstein Sep 05, 2019

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Amy Milstein’s two children have grown up unschooling. Last year, her eldest decided she wanted to go to college. We dive into how they handled the legalities of unschooling in New York, her daughter’s journey to college, and the lovely flow of their unschooling days along the way. I hope you enjoy the conversation as […]

EU191: Q&A with Anna and Pam Aug 29, 2019

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Anna Brown joins me this week to dive into listener questions! Watch the video on YouTube QUESTION SUMMARIES Mom hears many parents on the podcast talking about hanging out with their kids so much more now that they’re unschooling. But since she stopped limiting screen time back in January, her boys, 15, 13, and 10, […]

EU190: Unpacking Unschooling Memes with Sue Patterson Aug 22, 2019

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Sue Patterson joins me this week to dive into five popular unschooling memes. Memes can be quick, inspirational pick-me-ups, but we don’t need to stop there—we can use them as a springboard to learn more about both ourselves and unschooling. It’s so worth doing the work. Watch the video on YouTube THE FIVE POPULAR MEMES […]

EU189: Ten Questions with Amy Martinez Aug 15, 2019

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Amy Martinez joins me this week to talk about her family’s move to unschooling. Amy is a mother of five, who range in age from 15-29. They had time in public school, homeschooling, and ultimately moved to unschooling. Her insights on those transitions, on living in a big family, and on the connections and amazing […]

EU188: Our Unschooling Work with Jen Keefe Aug 08, 2019

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Jen Keefe joins me this week! Jen was on the podcast almost three years ago and I really enjoyed learning a bit about how their unschooling lives have grown and changed since then. We dive into what she found challenging as they moved to unschooling, how it’s been life-changing for her as well as the […]

EU187: Time and the Wild Landscape of Unschooling Aug 01, 2019

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I originally wrote this essay for Rosemary Magazine, for their winter issue, which had the theme, “wildschool.” I loved playing with that idea! There’s the outer wildness of living outside the structure of compulsory school. In the world, rather than in the classroom. Kids in the grocery store in the middle of the day. Running […]

EU186: Sparkle and Zest and Unschooling with Teresa Hess Jul 25, 2019

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Teresa Hess is an unschooling mom with three kids and the family—Teresa, her husband, and the kids—live in a cool co-housing community on an island in Washington state. Teresa and I had a wonderful conversation about their unschooling lives, diving into the shift to peaceful parenting, the ever-deepening spiral of mothering and self-awareness, the concept […]

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