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Game On!
Making peace with and space for video gaming as part of the future The dark room is aglow with wall-sized projection screens. Eight computer monitors display the game Fortnite. Boys ranging in ages…
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3 Regrets of an Unschooling Mom
We have been homeschooling for 12 years, unschooling for close to 11. My kids have been unschooling since birth, though. I am the one who needed to catch up to what they instinctively…
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The Case for Living the Self-Directed Life
Summer is probably the most dreamed about, written about, and longed for season in America. For most of America’s children and young adults, summertime means freedom. The school year schedule fades away and…
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Why We Chose Homeschooling- A Letter to My Son
D, In three more days, I could be sending you, my four-year-old son, off to Kindergarten. Your carefree days would be replaced with homework, inflexible schedules, and demands. You would no longer get…
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How Pokemon Sealed our Unschooling Fate
My son was six when Pokemon entered our world. The cute and odd-looking characters quickly became his thing, his focus, the topic he explored in as many ways as possible. For a little…
