• Read all about how other people just like you and your children have learned without being taught...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 believes in coercive education...and how we can transcend those limits in our daily lives. 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," "radical unschooling," "unstructured  homeschooling" or "natural 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.

Our writers 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. In addition, some of the world’s foremost educational thinkers, researchers and writers share their journeys of exploration into how people learn informally.

Life Learning is owned by Life Media, a consumer magazine and book publishing company begun in 1976. Along with Natural Life magazine, the Natural Child magazine website and its forerunner Child’s Play magazine, Life Learning represents over three decades of print and web publishing experience in the home-based education and natural parenting fields. The print edition of Life Learning magazine was published from March of 2002 until May of 2008, when it was reintegrated back into Natural Life magazine, from where it was spun off in 2002. The magazine continues online on this website, which is dedicated to providing information, support and inspiration to families and individuals around the world who are learning without schooling.

Life Learning values its editorial integrity and this website does not publish advertorials or other advertiser-supplied editorial material. Here is more information on our ethics policy. We also value the environment and have a Sustainability Statement.

Life Learning's editor Wendy Priesnitz is an award-winning journalist, poet and author of nine books, including School Free - The Home Schooling Handbook and Challenging Assumptions in Education, the editor of Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier, and a contributor to many others, including Linda Dobson's The Homeschooling Book of Answers and the collaborative Creating Learning Communities. Wendy and her husband and business partner Rolf are the parents of two adult daughters who learned without schooling in the 1970s and 80s. To learn more about Wendy, visit her website.