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Thursday, May 9, 2024

The roots of a belief...


From my notes for a 2012 conference presentation on "Why Radical Unschooling?":

So the history of "radical unschooling" came from someone saying "Well we're not that radical," and me saying "well I am."

Radical
radical in surfer lingo has to do with extreme.
Politically, extreme from a grassROOTs movement.
radius
radish
From the roots to the tips
from the roots of hair to the tips
or the roots of a tree to the end of each leaf
or from the roots of a belief to the end of each action.

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photo by Sandra Dodd, in Ă“bidos

Monday, May 16, 2022

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

Friday, February 17, 2017

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

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Learning about learning

For the parents, deschooling is learning about learning.

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photo by Colleen Prieto

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Childproof world?

Instead of childproofing the world, worldproof your child.
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photo by Chrissy Florence