PODCAST
The Unschooling Life
Discover the innumerable wonders & challenges of the unschooling life. Featuring interviews with unschooling families recorded and edited by Amy Childs. Show your support at patreon.com/amychilds
Episodes
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Extras with Sandra Dodd
Clips from interviews with Sandra Dodd that didn't get put elsewhere.
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Extra Bits
Extra bits and pieces that didn't get included anywhere else.
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Healing
Unschooling can repair damage done by traditional parenting and schooling approaches.
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Laughter
While my kids were in school, we could easily go several days without laughing together. When we were unschooling, hardly an hour would go by without at least a giggle.
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Siblings
How does unschooling affect sibling dynamics?
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The Word Unschooling
Where did it come from? And where is it going?
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Gaps and Being "Behind"
Sometimes people worry that, if children don’t follow a set curriculum, they will have gaps in their education, or that they will be behind. Is this a valid concern?
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Hard Times
What do unschoolers do when they encounter hard times?
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Single Parents
For many people, unschooling as a single parent would be way too hard. But today we hear from some “solo mums” who are unschooling successfully, with joy, learning, abundance and partnership. Katie O’Connor is the director of the Talking Stick Learning Center. Danielle Owens is on the board of...
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Relatives
When relatives don’t support unschooling… what then?
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Dads
What about dads?
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Quitting
Quitting and learning; learning and quitting.
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Sex Ed
How do unschoolers handle sex education?
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Travel
The flexibility of an unschooling lifestyle makes it possible for some families to travel and learn all over the world. It's hard not to be jealous of them, but maybe they can inspire us to realize the world is an amazing place and wherever we go we can have a learning adventure. And maybe we can...
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Gever Tulley
Gever Tulley is the founder of Tinkering School and author of the book 50 Fangerous Things You Should Let Your Kid do. This is an extended recording of Gever talking about Tinkering, his original TED talk, his book, and the value of parents and children doing dangerous things together.
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Safety
Today we hear about danger and safety from Ben Hewitt, Sandra Dodd, Renee Cabatic, Gever Tulley and Lenore Skenazy.
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Global Change
Can unschooling make the world a better place?
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Personal Growth
One of the hidden benefits to unschooling is that it can help parents learn, heal and grow.
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When Unschooling Fails
Sometimes people say “Unschooling isn’t working for my child” or they say, "We tried unschooling but it didn’t work." This is the topic for today: When, why or how does unschooling fail?
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Community
How do unschoolers find community?
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African Americans & Homeschooling
Ama Mazama is a professor of African American studies at Temple University, a homeschooling mom, and author of the recently published a book African Americans and Homeschooling: Motivations, Challenges, and Opportunities. Today we will hear why she believes homeschooling is the best educational...
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Strewing
"I strew their path with interesting things."
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Longer interviews with Liberated Learners
Nothstar Teens Princeton Learning Cooperative Bucks Learning Cooperative
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Teens
What's it like to be an unschooling teen?
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Saying Yes
Saying Yes to your child can foster a rich and joyful environment for learning.
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Principles
Principles and priorities (rather than rules) create the framework by which unschooling can work
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Money
Unschooling and money... money and unschooling.
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History
History is stories.
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Geography
Learning geography can be an adventure!
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Science
Science is EVERYWHERE!
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Writing
Learning to write without pain and suffering.
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Reading
Learning to read without school and without coercion.
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Math
Learning math without school and without coercion.
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Special Needs
Can unschooling work for a child with learning problems? What about gifted children? Or children with health issues? Today we hear from.... Ami Fountain - an Awesomism Ambassador, an austism advocate, and an unschooling mother of two boys. Nina Haley - a yoga teacher, paddleboarder and mother of...
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Socialization
If a child doesn’t go to school, won’t she or he miss out on this thing called socialization?
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A Typical Day
A typically atypical unschooling day.
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Bedtimes
Everyone knows that kids HAVE to have bedtimes, right? I mean … come on. Right? Welcome to the unschooling life podcast… and to a world where the things that "everyone knows" are often under suspicion.
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"Spoiling"
How to help your child have The Best Day Ever, over and over and over again.
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Mess
Welcome to mess! For as long as I can remember – maybe since I was four years old, I liked things to be tidy. So I had a lot of personal growth to do, to get to a point where I could be okay with mess... and to where I saw my kids preferences as at least equal to my own... and I could put my...
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Food
Can even meal times be time of joy and harmony - and learning? Unschoolers say, absolutely YES!
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Peace
How do unschooling parents create a peaceful environment that is conducive to learning?
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Academics
Unschoolers don’t segment life into categories, don’t follow a prescribed curriculum and don’t see quote “academic” learning as different or better than all kinds of learning. People who still have a school mindset worry that this means unschooled children are not learning the important things.
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"Bored" and "Lazy"
Parents worry a child might be too “bored” or “lazy” to unschool. Is this possible? My conclusion is - not only are boredom and laziness not reasons or proof that unschooling doesn’t work - they can be great opportunities to learn new things, to have more bonding experiences, giving a chance for...
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Is Unschooling Legal?
When they first hear about unschooling, many people ask “is that legal?” Every country is different, and in the US, every state is different. But usually the answer is yes.
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Learning from Screens
Many people worry that unlimited screens will harm their child. But natural learning occurs best when children follow their interests and are trusted to direct their own play and learning... EVEN when they’re interested in something on a screen.
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Bonding
What do families gain from an unschooling lifestyle that goes beyond providing a natural learning environment? I asked Sandra Dodd to talk about the differences between unschooling and other education alternatives. Today she touches on the parent-child bond, the parents’ learning, honoring human...
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Peter Gray on Play
Children who are free to play learn to regulate emotions, overcome narcissism, be empathetic and creative, think abstractly, discover and develop their passions.
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Peter Gray on Learning
Peter Gray is a developmental psychologist and research professor who has written many things including a blog for Psychology Today magazine called "Freedom to Learn." His latest book is also called Free to Learn, and in it Mr. Gray writes about how all people are born to be self-directed learners.
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College Alternatives
Lots of people- not just unschoolers - have been questioning more and more whether a college degree is really worth the skyrocketing costs. I guess most would agree that sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. Unschoolers are well situated to do other interesting, educational, strategically…
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Discover the innumerable wonders & challenges of the unschooling life. Featuring interviews with unschooling families recorded and edited by Amy Childs. Show your support at patreon.com/amychilds
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Discover the innumerable wonders & challenges of the unschooling life. Featuring interviews with unschooling families recorded and edited by Amy Childs. Show your support at patreon.com/amychilds
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