When unschooling is equated with alternative school, it can blind people to the possibilities of full-on radical unschooling. No matter how extremely great or different a school is from a traditional school, or the default standard, it is still a school.
Parents who are unschooling as a whole way of life, can discover what no school can find, and the core aspect of it is the family as a base for learning—for learning about family, for learning about relationships, and resources, money, food and sleep, and learning about laughter.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Wonderful Sandra. I hadn’t come across that podcast before. This was a good reminder when I have doubts of why we embarked on our radically unschooling journey in the first place. It’s not until I am around schooled children that I can see the differences sometimes very subtle and sometimes very clearly. And its in the relationships that it is the most telling. I then am so grateful that we chose this path.
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