Dayna Martin is an unschooling advocate, author, and conference speaker. She founded Unschooling United, a non-profit organization dedicated to the radical unschooling movement.

What we talked about:

-Dayna's background and philosophy in natural parenting, unschooling, anarchism, children's rights, etc.

-What happens when we try to force children to do things against their will?

-Dayna's traditional upbringing.

-Dayna's 4 kids have never been to school and never been punished.

-How to Columbine school shooting planted a seed on Dayna's path.

-She puts no limits or rules on things like screens, food and bedtimes.

-Why she and all of her kids choose to be vegan (different reasons).

-Her choice to always respect her kids over agenda.

-Unschooling: "The agenda of school isn't to educate you."

-How formal education robs children of their childhood.

-The inherent abuse that comes with the compulsory education system.

-How school limits our freedom and parental rights.

-Punishment vs. Discipline.

-The good intentions of workers of broken systems (nurses, doctors, teachers, etc).

-Our culture runs on the authoritarian paradigm of obedience and compliance.

-Why she thinks behavior modification is narcassistic and how obedience is often the main goal in parenting.

-A partnership-based paradigm with our children.

-Why the prospect of being with our kids all day is overwhelming for most mothers.

www.daynamartin.com

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