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Welcome to Life Learning:
The Magazine for Unschooling and Homeschooling Families

Wendy PriesnitzI hope that you’ll look around our website, check out what this innovative magazine is all about, read a few of the free articles, and maybe sign up for our free sampler preview, then decide to subscribe. Our readers tell us that we produce unusually high quality, unique editorial about homeschooling and unschooling. (They also like the intentionally very small amount of advertising in the magazine, and the fact that, unlike other magazines, we keep editorial and advertising separate and don't publish "brand journalism" or "advertorials.")

Life Learning Magazine’s editorial digs deep into the issues that concern and motivate life learners (a term which I prefer over "unschoolers"). However, one of my core beliefs is that there are no rules about what homeschooling / unschooling / life learning should look like in your home (and no real definition of it either) because you and your children know what’s best for your family’s life together (that is, you're the experts!). I also believe that life (and, hence, parenting and unschooling / life learning) is a journey, and that our thinking and practice evolve as time goes on. So Life Learning Magazine doesn’t provide instructions or a formula, or apply pressure to do things a certain way. Nor does it criticize or belittle you for your parenting practices. Our readers live around the world and come from many backgrounds and worldviews, but we don't discuss politics or religion. What you will find here is lots of respect – just like our kids deserve – as well as wisdom, encouragement, insight, inspiration, and enthusiasm about living and learning without school. Most of our articles are written by parents just like you, and young people who have walked the talk themselves. So I hope this will be a comfortable and friendly place for you to share your experiences of living and learning with trust and respect, and to give and receive support about life learning / unschooling / homeschooling and its effect on all aspects of life.

I know that you can find a massive amount of free content on the web. However, the advantages of paid content are numerous. Life Learning Magazine provides you with an organized, focused, curated, and thematic selection of professionally edited in-depth articles and layouts. We filter the noise so you get the information and inspiration that you want! The other thing about Life Learning Magazine is that, while we have a firm grip on who we are and what we're doing, we don't hesitate to take risks. In our pages, you'll find bold, challenging new ideas as well as comfortable reassurance about your chosen path...as it develops in its own unique way.

My husband Rolf and I unschooled our two daughters Heidi and Melanie beginning in the early 1970s (when it was just called homeschooling), and I have been writing about and advocating for homeschooling and unschooling ever since, sometimes in the pages of our publication Natural Life Magazine, founded in 1976. In the 1990s, we coined the term life learning as a positive way of discussing learning and living as if school doesn't exist. Back in the 1970s, we worked with our colleague John Holt to help families understand that they can trust and respect their children, and John consulted with us when he was launching Growing Without Schooling Magazine. When GWS ceased publication in 2001, we decided to take up where it left off with this magazine. We are pleased to offer our readers this depth of experience, and welcome your contributions as well.

My work and, by extension, Life Learning Magazine, is defined by a stubborn belief in the power of individuals to create positive change – in our own lives and beyond. Please join me and our contributors of all ages and backgrounds as this change takes shape.Wendy Priesnitz

 

 


About Editor/Co-Founder Wendy Priesnitz

Wendy Priesnitz is Life Learning’s owner and editor, and the author of a number of books on home-based education, including Challenging Assumptions in Education: From Institutionalized Education to a Learning Society (The Alternate Press, 2000) and Beyond School: Living As If School Doesn't Exist. She is also the mother of two unschooled adult daughters who are now living successfully in the real world that so often frightens parents and those who don't understand life learning.

Wendy is an agent of change who, when she was barely out of her teens, recognized the need for rethinking how we work, play, and educate ourselves in order to restore the planet’s social and ecological balance. For the last forty years, her mission has been to help people understand the interconnections within the web of life on Earth and to encourage them to challenge the assumptions inherent in the often conflicting choices we make in our daily lives. She writes from a position of experience rather than from academic research or expertism, and aims for conciseness and clarity in her style.

Read more of Wendy's biography.

Read Wendy's blog at www.WendyPriesnitz.com.

Read an interview with Wendy about her family's life learning experiences

Read some of Wendy's articles on this site:

The term life learning refers to a form of homeschooling that trusts children and avoids the trappings of school. It is sometimes called unschooling, radical unschooling, or natural learning. Life learning children live and learn naturally, with the support of their families, based on their own interests and their own timetables, and without curriculum, tests, or grades. Go here, here and here for a more comprehensive explanation.

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