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Voices in My Head: turning the tables on conventional parenting

I hear voices in my head.  A lot of them.  My parents, friends, parenting "experts", former colleaugues, acquaintances from church, other … [Continue Reading]

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Tiny Aliens: seeing our children from a new perspective

Join me on a journey of the imagination..... We're living sometime in the distant future, and intergalactic travel has become possible. A new … [Continue Reading]

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Life With a Louse: How Unschooling Helped Reframe an Itchy Situation

What can you learn from a louse?  A lot, it turns out.  Particularly when the louse is joined by a goodly number of compatriots and comes calling on … [Continue Reading]

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Unschooling: What’s the Value of a Diploma?

I can't shake the sneaking suspicion that a closet unschooler is a writer on Harry's Law. An episode I watched a while back seemed just loaded with unschooling philosophy. I found its premise to be so unschool-y, in fact, that I've written about it … [Read More...]

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Are Kids Supposed to Hate School?

So as it turns out, I'm writing a small series on a single episode of a show called Harry's Law. What does that have to do with unschooling, you ask? You'd be surprised. The episode centers around 16-year old Scott, who's battling his parents in … [Read More...]

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How Harry’s Law teaches Unschooling

Anybody who's followed my posts probably knows by now that tv shows tend to ignite my thoughts about unschooling. Usually, it's kid shows I have something to say about, but today I'm writing about one of a handful of grown-up shows I manage to watch: … [Read More...]

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Unschooling: Yes, Spelling Counts

When I taught elementary school, there were some things we teachers would lament about year after year. Near the top of the list was our students' truly atrocious spelling. Oh sure, they'd do okay on the spelling tests. But going through a piece of … [Read More...]

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Unschooling Lessons from Olivia

It's no secret: I'm a shameless fan of a couple of children's tv shows. Olivia is one of them. Olivia is a pig with an unschooler's instincts (although she probably doesn't know it) surrounded by parents, teachers and friends who are all pretty … [Read More...]

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Radical Unschooling: A Visit to the Dentist

Recently I took my youngest daughter, Maggie, to her first dental appointment. She's my fourth, so I didn't give it a whole lot of thought.  I figured it would go like the initial visits of my three older kids. Our pediatric dentist works hard to … [Read More...]

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The Mother Duck Phenomenon

Okay, tell me if this rings a bell... My kids are all playing happily as I head to the shower.  In under five minutes, I've got one in the shower with me, another keeping me company perched on the potty, and the other two hovering just outside … [Read More...]

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Sleeping Outside the Box: A Follow Up

Since writing my posts about our move to a family bed, I've gotten a lot of questions.  Because we made the shift in our thinking gradually, each step that moved us closer to this decision seemed easy and natural.  But looking at it from a more … [Read More...]

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Unschooling Thought For The Day

Children who undertake to do things…do not think in terms of success and failure, but of effort and adventure.  It is only when pleasing adults becomes important that the sharp line between success and failure appears. -John Holt, from How Children Fail

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Nicole-Olson-Unschooler

Who am I? Probably about the last person you'd expect to be unschooling,  let alone radical unschooling.  Before becoming a mom in 2003 I was an elementary school teacher.  I held dual certifications in regular and special education, and taught … [Read More...]

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