Fare of the Free Child

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Ep: 83: Wellness Spiral - Disrupting Our Disturbing Diet Habits Jun 06, 2018

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In episode 1 of Wellness Spiral with Moji Yai, we’re talking about disrupting eating habits and decolonizing food activism. Thanks to the candor of Moji’s guest, Christine Pierrelys, you’ll hear about one woman’s ongoing journey with cultivating a healthy personal and spiritual relationship with food. They’ll also touch on how routine work schedules can affect our sense of self-worth and our energy for self-care.

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Ep. 82: Moving Abroad to Design Your Liberation Jun 01, 2018

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Ever wondered how the story of a single mom traveling abroad starts out? Here's one: Put your kid in public school, you fight through the fight, and you build your life around the best school district you can afford. And you find a good job to help you fund this life. But one day your son comes home and says, “Can you please put me in a school where they get me?” A year later, you’re on an unschooling path, living in Mexico with your son, and a growing community of other people who are learning how to live out their liberation and make room for their children to live out theirs too. That's Aja's story. Listen to hear the details and opportunities herein.

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Ep. 81: Ujima and Unschooling in New Jersey May 23, 2018

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Here's how a Newark-area (New Jersey) community that prioritizes Self-Directed Education, but wants to include families of color in all stages of their educational journey decided to word their invitation for unschoolers, homeschoolers, and people somewhere in between: “Homeschoolers Of Color Collective is a group of families seeking to embody the principles of Ujima (collective work and responsibility) by decolonizing ourselves, relationships and education. We emphasize community building, self-directed learning through accessible resources. Disrupting. Empowering. Liberating. Re-Imagining.” #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 80: Curing Colonized Imaginations May 17, 2018

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Unschooling is a way of life that is based on freedom, respect, and autonomy.

In essence, unschooling is a child-trusting, anti-oppressive, liberatory, love-centered approach to parenting and care-giving, so not just for parents, but also for educators and other people who help to raise your child.

Unschoolers like to say that learning is a byproduct of living, and not a separate thing from living.

One way to distinguish unschooling from other parenting or education methods is to ask:

1. Did the child choose to do this activity?

2. Can they quit whatever they’re doing with no recourse or push-back from an adult?

If the answers are yes, then it’s unschooling.

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Ep. 79: Deschooling Politics and Parenting May 12, 2018

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Daritcia Rivera talks about living on her home island of Puerto Rico while navigating education, politics, and personal beliefs. She is deschooling from her old ideas, learning about the history of her island, and embracing being Black and self-directed. In this short segment, she talks about International Worker's Day (May Day) and its connection to our need to embrace deschooling.

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Ep. 78: Surviving Survival Mode (Ep. 1) May 10, 2018

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In Part One, Emerging Out of Survival Mode, single mother, entrepreneur, and Self-Directed Education advocate, Monique Allison, talks about pain, shame, adulting, and learning that surviving just isn't enough. She'll introduce her listeners to the change-up process, an agile learning tool used in many self-directed learning collaborative spaces. Plus, she'll talk about taking change-up hella personal, by applying it to her own life.

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Ep. 77: Through, Not Around, Our Feelings May 04, 2018

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Sometimes my daughters need to see me in my impatient space. Sometimes I can’t plead for their understanding — I have to inspire that shit through raw emotion and honest, unfiltered, non-violent expression. That’s my truth. The reality is that any person I love, including my daughters, can deeply hurt my feelings. Does this mean that I hold my daughters to the same level of emotional accountability as my husband or my best friend? Nope, but it for damn sure doesn’t mean that I morph into some feeling-less version of myself because I’m a mother, either. I refuse to hold myself accountable to some ridiculous standard of motherhood, and I refuse to see my daughters as people devoid of the capacity to use feelings and logic to decide how they want to be. They are not empty buckets made of impulses and giggles. As such, I hold them accountable, and I show them real-life responses to their real-life choices. As a matter of fact, I told three things to my dismissive daughter that day — not exactly in these words, but very much so in this energy.

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Ep. 76: Deepening and Discovery in This Work Apr 27, 2018

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In this episode, we'll talk about the importance of recognizing the connection between unschooling and spirituality. When we see how the practice of raising free people is changing our perspectives and our habits, it might be time to revisit the personal leadership practices that were aligned with the not-true you. Mad question askin' along with simple spiritual practices can make your conscious parenting shift much easier and much more emotionally sustainable. Also, hear from Moji Yai about her upcoming Raising Free People Network series, and Atlanta Self-Directed Education enthusiast, Anjel Berry of Imagimatics, talks about the importance of maker spaces in every city.

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Ep. 75: To Be Young, Self-Directed and Black Apr 19, 2018

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Don't let these skewed media images have you out here thinking Self-Directed Education is only for white people! It isn't; it's for any and everybody who wants it, and Chantrisse Parks, a black, self-directed young person, is one example of the varying faces of self-directed studies. Chantrisse is a brilliant example of that young, gifted, and Black energy that has been disrupting bullshit and actively working toward liberation since forever! Chantrisse is an Atlanta native with training in early childhood education.

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Ep. 74: What Does Raising Free People Mean? Apr 13, 2018

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Basically, when we say we’re raising free people, we’ve decided that respect and love, not fear and control, will be how we raise and regard the youngest members of our homes and our society. Calling it “raising free people work, or rfp work” is our way of acknowledging that this IS work, and that there ARE tools and people and books and events and public groups and private groups to support this type of conscious parenting, respectful parenting, liberation-mindedness that is inclusive of the ones who tend to bear the weight of our unhealed wounds, our not-yet-adults.

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