29/4/25 29/4/25

The Role of Repetition in Learning, Unschooling, and Shaping Identity

What if kids want to watch the same movies, read the same stories, or play the same games again and again? Should we try to move them on to other activities? Or is there value in repetition? Does repetition have an important role in our lives?

14/4/25 14/4/25

Learning to Read and Trusting Unschooling

18/3/25 18/3/25

Unschooling and Connections: How Learning Is All About Creating a Web of Understanding

10/3/25 10/3/25

Unschooling Maths - What Does Learning Math/s Naturally Look Like?

3/2/24 3/2/24

A Perfect Curriculum or Unschooling?

26/9/23 26/9/23

Who Should Be Responsible for a Child’s Education, the Parent or the Child?

Who should be responsible for a child's education, the parent or the child? Is learning an active activity that needs the learner’s cooperation? Is it impossible to force knowledge into a child without resorting to teaching methods that ultimately destroy their natural love of learning? Is forced learning real learning? Is it better to unschool and let children learn what’s important to them? But if we choose unschooling, will our kids, one day, accuse us of side-stepping our duty and not providing them with a good education?

23/9/23 23/9/23

What Do Unschoolers Do Each Day?

Is unschooling about staying in bed late, spending lazy days in the forest, and baking cookies? Or is there more to unschooling than that? What does a typical unschooling day look like? Will it be different in different families? Will it change over time?Whatever it looks like, will it always be packed with deep learning?

30/6/23 30/6/23

What to Do When Unschool Kids Have No Interest in Topics They’re Required to Learn

15/4/23 15/4/23

Unschool: Experiencing Energy and Gravity

Do parents need to teach kids about such things as forces, gravity, density, heat conduction, friction, the seasons, energy, and life cycles? Or will children learn a lot about these things by experiencing them while engaged in play and other activities?