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Dayna Martin – On The Rise & Popularity Of The Unschooling Movement

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Dayna Martin joined us to talk about the whole idea of unschooling children. We’re so brainwashed to believe that the only way for our children to learn is to have a state run government institution teach them.

Personally I don’t believe it’s the only way to learn. If a child wants to go to school then by all means I would support that. But there are so many problems with the traditional school system as it now is in America.

Children often get bullied and get in fights at school. They’re influenced by peer pressure to have sex, drink alcohol, do drugs and do all kinds of wild things through “socialization” which we all thought was such a good thing.

Vaccinations are also something that parents think their kids need to have before they can attend a public or private school. In high schools girls can get the morning after pill to induce an abortion without their parents knowledge. It’s just amazing.

We also see school violence and shootings happening at schools these days which are on the rise.

Then we have the issue of labeling children based on performance and grading on information that may or may not even be accurate. The whole thing doesn’t seem to make sense to me personally.

Ask any adult who thinks that school is so great, if they’d be willing to spend the next 9 months from 8am to 3pm going to classes all day studying things they don’t care about. Every adult I know would rather be working and being in the “real world”. So why do we make our children go to school like this? Is it because we think they’re too young and not capable of adult activities?

I think it is. And this is where we’re going wrong. A 12 year old child is capable of doing amazing things if we treat them as an adult and with respect and give them the confidence to carry out such tasks.

Each child learns differently and forcing them all through the narrow funnel of a cirriculum taught in a specific way is going to create a desire to get good grades instead of wanting to learn. And this is what we see. All kids and parents think about is what kind of grades their son or daughter is getting.

It’s all a performance based grading system which is archaic in my belief.

To me there are so many reasons to not to send your child to school and Dayna Martin talks about how they do life and what the unschooling movement is all about.

After you listen, comment below and tell us what you think!

We discuss the following and so much more:

Where did the idea of state control schools come from?

What’s the difference between homeschooling and unschooling?

Don’t states require kids to attend school?

What’s a typical unschooling day like in her family?

How does school indoctrinate the minds of our children

How learning styles aren’t supported in regular schools

What are her main reasons for unschooling (drugs, vaccinations, ADD, friends, truth of information)

The problem of labeling children

The speed at which child reads, walks, does math

What about High School

Recommended books

And so much more!

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Show Date:

Wednesday 4/10/2013

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Show Guest:

Dayna Martin

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Guest Info:

Dayna Martin is an author, speaker, and advocate for natural childbirth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and radical unschooling. Her maiden name was Dayna Veno. Dayna was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, where she lived with her mother, Darlene Lambert, stepfather, Gordon Baker, and brother, David Veno (now Baker). She attended public school in Nashua until she was 15 years old.

She moved to the Mount Washington Valley area of New Hampshire and moved in with her biological father, David Veno, and half brother, Tobias Veno, as a teen. She attended Kennett High School in Conway, New Hampshire, where she met her future husband, Joe Martin. After living with her father for a few months, Dayna moved in with her uncle, Donald Armstrong, and his wife, Paula, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where she lived until she was 18 years old. During that time, Dayna spent many months in Sweden, where she lived with a family whom she was very close with. At the age of 18, Dayna moved to Madison, New Hampshire, to be with Joe Martin, whom she had stayed in touch with for 3 years.

Dayna lived with Joe Martin and his parents until the age of 19 when she and Joe moved in together in North Conway, New Hampshire. They were married on June 25, 1995. In October 1997, Dayna and Joe purchased the home of Joe’s great-grandfather, William Harmon, in Madison. On April 19, 1999, Dayna and Joe had their first child, Devin Martin. They have since had three other children, Dakota Martin, Ivy Martin, and Orion Martin, who were all born at home in Madison.

Dayna became a childbirth educator and La Leche League leader after the birth of her first child. She taught childbirth classes out of her home for many years. She and Joe started a wooden toy business called Willow Toys in 2003.

In 2009, Dayna published her first book, Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun.

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Topic:

Unschooling

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http://daynamartin.com/

http://willowtoys.com/

http://www.thesparklingmartins.blogspot.com/

http://www.rawenvy.blogspot.com/

http://www.liferocksconference.com/

http://rawkstarz.com/

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Youtube/Vimeo

http://www.youtube.com/user/DaynaLeighMartin

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Items Mentioned:

Dayna Martin on ABC’s Wife Swap

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling – (see website)

Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves – (see website)

How Children Learn – (see website)

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life – (see website)

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to… – (see website)

Heal Thyself – (see website)

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