• Read all about how other people just like you and your children have learned without school...what helps and what hinders, and what they have achieved in their lives as a result.

• Laugh, cry and identify with parents who are helping themselves and their children learn from the real world...and learning a lot about themselves along the way.

• Think about how we are limited by a society that still believes in coercive education...and how we can transcend those limits in our daily lives and for our children's future.

• Find support and reassurance for interest-based, learner-directed education (for all ages) and non-coercive, natural parenting.

This type of learning is sometimes known as "unschooling," "homeschooling," "natural learning," "autonomous education" or "free-range learning." We prefer the term "life learning" and see it as a lifestyle rather than as a method of homeschooling...and we like to think it applies to people of all ages, not just children. You can read more about the philosophy here.

Our contributors provide honest and thought-provoking ideas that will let you think outside-the-box about ways to encourage and support active, self-directed learning. Most of our contributors are life learning parents and teens, or adults who learned without schooling as children. They share their journeys of exploration into how people learn informally.

Life Learning Magazine is owned by Life Media, an independent magazine and book publishing company begun in 1976. Along with Natural Life Magazine, Natural Child Magazine and its forerunner Child’s Play Magazine, Life Learning represents almost forty years of publishing experience in the home-based education and natural parenting fields. The print edition of Life Learning Magazine began publication in March of 2002 and it's been a digital magazine since 2008. The digital format has proven to be highly popular with paying subscribers and remains dedicated to providing information, support, and inspiration to families and individuals around the world who are learning without schooling.

Life Learning is a grassroots, reader-supported magazine that values its editorial integrity. Therefore, we do not publish advertorials or other advertiser-supplied editorial material. Here is more information on our ethics policy. We also value the environment and our publishing company has a Sustainability Statement.