We can bundle our children into small rooms and push what someone has decided they should know at them, or we can open a door… Read More »Unschooling can end ‘the way things have always been done’

The statistics vary, but somewhere between 70% and 85% of people globally are unhappy in their job. That means most working people spend most of… Read More »Why are generations of children growing up believing it’s normal to work without meaning?

“Albert Einstein went through the school system, and the rest is history. Can you imagine how different the story might have been if his parents… Read More »Thank goodness Albert Einstein wasn’t unschooled!

You will make mistakes. You will have regrets. You will question yourself. You will drop the ball. You will blame yourself. You will surprise yourself.… Read More »You will make mistakes, you will have regrets, and you will be ok

Imagine a child or teenager running home and proudly announcing to their parents that they’d failed a test that day. Silly thought, of course. From… Read More »Helping our children embrace failure

“Hey, how are you?!”“I’m good – busy though! What about you?”“Yeah, good, been pretty busy as well!” That word has become a badge of honour.… Read More »We need to take off our busy badge

Back when our kids were in school our eldest son – a gentle, caring soul – gave his mum a much tighter hug than he… Read More »Our children spend over 14,000 hours in a classroom

It is not black and white, compartmentalised. The problem with standardised testing is that it makes it so. It pulls subjects into narrow pathways and… Read More »The real world is not neatly divided into subjects