Sorting, comparing, naming, learning

For the parents, deschooling is learning about learning.

For the parents AND the children,

Sorting through things is learning.

Sorting through ideas, and songs, and art, is learning

Comparing things is learning about them.

Contrasting things is learning about them.

Categorizing things is learning about them.

Naming things is learning about them.

Naming radical unschooling is learning about it.

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photo by Sandra Dodd, in Holly's candid kitchen

Loftier dreams

Question: “How do you transition kids from rules and chore lists if the kids are older?” Answer: “Go gradually. Don’t enforce so much. If they say, ‘I’m tired,’ then say, ‘Go to bed.’ Don’t make a big announcement, ‘We’re now unschooling.’ Just start saying yes more. If kids can only drink one soda a day and have to go to bed at a specific time, they often grow up to have dreams of drinking lots of soda and staying up late — and don’t we want kids to have bigger, loftier dreams than that?”

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photo by Chrissy Florence

Learning about learning

For the parents, deschooling is learning about learning.

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photo by Colleen Prieto

It gets easy (or it can...)

It sounds easy, and it gets easy, but it's not easy at first.

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photo by Roya Dedeaux

Childproof world?

Instead of childproofing the world, worldproof your child.

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photo by Chrissy Florence