A typically atypical unschooling day.

Everyone knows that kids HAVE to have bedtimes, right?

I mean … come on.

Right?

Welcome to the unschooling life podcast… and to a world where the things that "everyone knows" are often under suspicion.

How to help your child have The Best Day Ever, over and over and over again.

Welcome to mess!

For as long as I can remember – maybe since I was four years old, I liked things to be tidy.

So I had a lot of personal growth to do, to get to a point where I could be okay with mess...

and to where I saw my kids preferences as at least equal to my own...

and I could put my relationship with them above my compulsion to have things be tidy all the time.

I wish I learned sooner but at least I learned it before it was too late.

Can even meal times be time of joy and harmony - and learning?

Unschoolers say, absolutely YES!

How do unschooling parents create a peaceful environment that is conducive to learning?

Unschoolers don’t segment life into categories, don’t follow a prescribed curriculum and don’t see quote “academic” learning as different or better than all kinds of learning.

People who still have a school mindset worry that this means unschooled children are not learning the important things.

Parents worry a child might be too “bored” or “lazy” to unschool. Is this possible?

My conclusion is - not only are boredom and laziness not reasons or proof that unschooling doesn’t work - they can be great opportunities to learn new things, to have more bonding experiences, giving a chance for parents to pay closer attention to their child and find out more that is going on deep inside.