S6E115: Season 6- Deschooling and Growing Without School

  Season 6- Deschooling and Growing Without School Welcome to a new season of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. Season 6. If you are new to the podcast, let me introduce myself. My name is Robyn Robertson and I am the creator and host of Honey! I'm Homeschooling The Kids. I am a home educating mom with hopes, dreams, failures and doubts. Just like you.  In this episode I share a little story about our family, how we found our way to homeschooling and to creating this podcast. I also share what I came to observe, notice and question as we found ourselves farther along this learning journey. What to expect for Season 6 This season we are diving further into Deschooling. 9 years and counting and we are still Deschooling! What is Deschooling? Deschooling is rethinking, reflecting and stepping away from the “schoolish” ideas and ways of thinking.  There is a period of adjustment from traditional school to homeschooling that is often referred to as deschooling.  Deschooling is taking an intentional step away from trying to replicate school at home and giving space (for your whole family) to adjust to the change. The transition from school to learning at home can be an adjustment in understanding the freedom you now have—because that freedom can be intimidating. After many years of being told what to do and how to do it, most of us have been thoroughly “schooled.” Deschooling is overcoming the conditioning that says that learning has to be done a certain way (or has to look a certain way) when, in fact, it does not. It is overcoming the conditioning that our children have to look and create in a certain way, when in fact they are as individual and different as we are.  I get many questions on the deschooling process and we will explore this further. Trust me, it helps. I'll share tools that have helped me on this journey and the stories of others that are in the thick of Deschooling. We will also explore the teen years in homeschooling and unschooling. As we continue to homeschool, our kids have grown older. Many homeschoolers now have young adults that grew up homeschooled, unschooled or have teens in the midst of it all. This is where our family is at. There have been so many discussion and questions that have come up for us. Especially as we prepare our children to enter the world, a world that still holds a fairly rigid belief on how things should be done and how young people should be viewed. What happens when your children don’t fit any of those molds?  Resources Project Based Homeschooling Book National Home Education Research Institute How To Be An Awesome Homeschooler Summit Would you like to support the podcast? Become a patron~ https://www.patreon.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids Enjoy this episode? Share it on social media. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.