Living and Learning with Development in Mind
Welcome!
I’m Missy. A mother of two grown children who experienced childhoods outside the conventional schooling model. I’m also a writer and the creator of the Let ’em go Barefoot podcast and community.
As someone who has been inside classrooms as an educator and outside them as a homeschool parent, I support families who want to reimagine life beyond school by centering development instead of deadlines, and delight instead of performance.
Drawing on decades of studying child development and human behavior, I help parents support living and learning in ways that honor their child’s unique development instead of working against it.
I also think we are in the midst of a Great Educational Awakening. I write about the changes in education and how we can support our children in these rapidly changing times over on Substack.
Start Here...
Life Unschooled: A Guide to Living and Learning Without School, a beautiful, 43-page downloadable guide that gives a voice to the growing number of families choosing to opt out of the conventional schooling model.
Written by two master’s level teachers turned unschooling moms with a heart for self-directed education and joyful learning, Life Unschooled provides assurance that living and learning without school is not only possible, but in many cases, preferrable.
Interested in how we became an unschooling family?
I share our journey on the following podcasts:
