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November/December 2012
Re-educating the inner reluctant homeschooler; Unschooling as
redemption; a young man describes his journey from school to
self-education to college and back; Good reasons to skip
college: what you could do instead with $20,000; John Taylor
Gatto with why we need experience more than algebra; Novel
writing and school's damaging priority paradigm; Dealing with
bullying in the unschooling community |
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September/October 2012
Going with the flow of learning, while everyone else is boxing it up;
The Joy of a Reading Childhood; An interview with French grown unschooler, professional
musician, and father André Stern; The value (or lack thereof) of praise; Trusting Children: personal memories of John Holt |
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July/August 2012
The $120 Swim Lesson (allowing kids to quit lessons they don't
like); an experience attending an unschooling conference;
Reflections on a Day Dreamer; Science as a Subversive Activity;
Slow Learning, Science, Nature, and Life; The Principle of
Productive Failure |
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May/June 2012
Living and Learning in a Multigenerational Home; It's Not Important What "Those Guys" Think; No Reading Pressure Here; Nonviolent Communication; Rocking the Boat Without Drowning Everybody; Bored? That's Okay;
Homeschool Community; Socializing Remy; Learning by Making and Mending; The Threat of Living Outside the Norm
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March/April 2012
Deschooling a parent; Learning to write; The joy of linkages; Should do versus want to do;
Who makes the choices? Do we need to know how kids learn?
Understanding a parent's role in unschooling; How reading is like
riding a bike |
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January/February 2012
The gifts we
give to children who live without school; Mental Disorder Or Survival Mechanism?;
At Ease With All Ages; The Ladder of Unschooling Doubt; Will Computers Warp Their Brains?; Screen Time; I Believe in Libraries;
Learning as a form of growth
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November/December 2011
Your child the photographer; Focusing like a child; Saving Brianna:
transition from school and labels to successful unschooling;
Permaculture learning: growing children and plants; The Essential Learning Debate: Are there subjects that must be learned?; Process
over
content; Chores: real work for real kids; No such thing
as "unschooling failure"
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September/October 2011
Attachment parenting adolescent children; how much math is
enough?; life learning history; when support groups go wrong;
bullying by adults in support groups; what is an education?;
expanding the "10,000 hour rule"; not back to school;
challenging assumptions about life learning |
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July/August 2011
Learning is not just academics; The Big Questions; Empathy is
the Tenth Intelligence; allowing young people to live in the
present rather than in the shadow of the future; supporting
risk-taking as a foundation of learning and life; the dangers of
fostering individuality rather than providing attachment; why
it's better to learn to read later; making the world more
friendly for children |
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May/June 2011
Creativity, A Provisional Curriculum For When Walking is Taught
at School (humor); unschooling "cures" ADHD; learning math in
the real world; questioning socialization; the kindest mother in
the world; imagination and the tooth fairy hoax; the mother
crush
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March/April 2011
Worst case scenario: What would happen if the kids had to go to
school; the guilty unschooler; dabbling, digging deep, and
quitting: the real costs of parental pressure; the challenges
and joys of living and learning with your children; children at
work, or child labor?; taming the Tiger Mother; assumptions we
make about children and learning; the perils of defining and
measuring success for other people
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January/February 2011
Insights from a grown unschooler; playing,
learning, and Nature Deficit Disorder; biomimicry model of
learning; 83 things I learned from homeschooling; kids need
independent time to muddle, not their parents meddling;
the assumption that being home with kids is non-productive for
women;
joining your child's activities can stifle
creativity and confidence; poems about the respect between an
adult and a child |
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November/December 2010
Audacious Learning; Making Peace With War Birds: when your
child's interest doesn't interest you; Mothering and Writing;
Unschooling is Forever: memoir of an adult unschooler; Answering
the question: What Do You Do All Day; Being the Change: life
learning families can help change the world; Ask Naomi Aldort:
Should a Child Watch His Sibling's Birth?; Keeping Company:
offering support and trust while providing space and
encouraging independence |
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September/October 2010
Relinquishing Control; Reading instruction as the plague of childhood;
Learning on Bikes; Cooking With What's in the Bag - the CSA
Model of Unschooling; Force Fed Learning; The Power to Control;
Ask Naomi Aldort: The Myth of the Rude Child; Taking Possession
of Our Lives and Learning;
Book and Film Reviews |
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July/August 2010
Preparing for the Future; Growing Wild; Unschooling in Columbia;
The Conversation That Never Happens: Engaging with
Non-Unschoolers; Can Unschooling Change the World?; How Life
Learning Prepares Young People for Life in the New Economy;
Eye-Opener: There are Other Ways to View the World Than by
Reading; Keeping the World Whole; The Necessity of Shakespeare;
Ask Naomi Aldort: No Training Wheels, Please; Book and CD
Reviews |
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May/June 2010
The Curriculum of Play (John Taylor Gatto); Climb, Swing &
Snuggle: How active play prepares children to read; Unforeseen
Benefits of Unschooling; Ask Naomi Aldort:
Tantrums; Life for Mom After Life Learning; Apples & Oranges - A
Dialogue About Competition; Competition and Learning; Books and
Website Reviews |
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March/April 2010
What Education Means, On the Cusp and Over, Feeling Confident in
the Face of Family Criticism, Eighteen Superstitions in
Education, The Hall of Mirrors (John Taylor Gatto), Who is My
Child to Be?, And Some [unschooled kids] Have Greatness Thrust
Upon Them: Shakespeare Through An Unschooling Lens, Book and CD
Reviews |
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January/February 2010
Learning to Think for Ourselves, The perils of "tape recorder
learning", Walking Away, The Educator's Secret and Modern
Stupidity, The Difference Between Schooling and Education, The
Mother He Needs, For the Sake of Our Children, Waiting for the
Train, College Without School, Family Reading Habits |
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Natural Life Magazine.
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May/June 2008
Daring to Drop Out of High School, Prospering in the Real
World, Culture & Community, Effective Communication, What You
Don't Know Matters Most |
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March/April 2008
When Unschooling Feels More Like Unparenting, A
Four-Year-Old Teaches Herself to Read, Don't Worry About College
by John Taylor Gatto, Learning About Life From Death, David
Albert's Elements of Intelligence |
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January/February 2008
Learning With Special Needs Children, Letting Go of Teachable
Moments, Second Thoughts About High School, Where Curiosity
Leads, Being a Real Worker in the Real World, Perfection is
the Enemy of Excellence, Labels
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November/December 2007
Free School or No School?, Learning in the Real World,
Honoring Unschooling Pioneer Nancy Plent, Redefining Success,
Secret Spaces, A Grandmother Reflects on Unschooling, The
Problems With Labels |
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September/October 2007
Healing the Ugliness of a Schooled Society, Self-Reliance,
Doing Their Best Naturally, The Educator's Dilemma, Going to
College, Intervening With Other Parents, Adolescence Isn't Hard |
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July/August 2007
What We Should Know, Living for the Future, Learning to Swim,
Achieving Full Personhood, A Dad Learns Some Lessons from
Unschooling, Does Early Learning in School Cause Corrupted
Vision?, The Importance of Helping Teens Learn Responsibility,
Pressure to Attend College |
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May/June 2007
The Value of
Unstructured Play, Understanding Children’s Perception of Time,
Integrating into the Mainstream Adult World...or Not, Learning
to Read, Interview With Life Learning’s Editor, The Case Against
Teaching |
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March/April 2007
What Really Matters with David H. Albert/Joyce Reed, Learning
Informally by Alan Thomas, Looking at the Chaos of Learning, Is
There a Writer in There?, Challenging Teachers to Become
Self-Directed, Peer Pressure, Learning With the Simpsons |
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January/February 2007
Fear of the TV Beast, The Many Subtle Faces of Authority,
Are We Really Protecting Our Children? When They Grow Up,
Unschooling Our Dog, Low Marks for Good Grades, Raising
Peaceful Warriors
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November/December 2006
The Unschooling Grandparent, Giving Up the Gold Stars - an
Unschooling Dad Searches for his Passion, The Labyrinth of
Unschooling, Learning in a Democratic School, In Praise of
Average, When Children Demean Each Other |
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September/October 2006
Living the Language You Learn, A Single Mom Unschools (part
3), Following a Child's Lead, Studying Black Unschooling, When
Adults Disagree, Bedtime Struggles, From Unschooling to the
Corporate World |
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July/August 2006
The Stress of Large Groups, Living Mindfully, A University
Education From Life, Unlearning Literary Analysis, Children
and Power, Emotional Intelligence, Learning Values Without
Coercion, The Musical Child |
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May/June 2006
A Young Child Learns From Life, An Unschooling Former Teacher
Learns From Her Mistakes, Midwifing Deschooling Parents,
What Really Matters?, There is no Right Way, Avoiding
Stereotyping Kids, Saying No, Celebrating Choices
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March/April 2006
A Teen Goes to School, Whose Goal is it Anyway?, Homeschoolers
Repopulate Communities, Replacing Non-Coercion With Positive
Consent, Nurturing the Ability to Focus, A Second-Generation
Homeschooling Mother
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January/February 2006
Learning to Build, Still Learning After All Those Years,
Unintentional Learning in an Intentional Community, Single
Parent Unschooling, Acts of Enclosure, Talking to Learn,
Wanting to Go to School, Unschooled Adult Now Flourishes in
Business
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November/December 2005
Living and Learning
in the Real World and Following Rules, Studying for a PhD After
Deschooling at Age 13, Expectations, Maximizing Creativity,
Learning to Read Without Coercion, A Parent Confronts Her
Control Issues in Order to Unschool |
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September/October 2005
Not Attending
College by John Taylor Gatto, The SelfDesign Learning Plan, The
Frontier Spirit of the Heart, Learning Spanish in Costa Rica,
Talking to Children About Death, Building an Autonomous Learning
Environment, Writing a Test |
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July/August 2005
Living Unschooling
With Sandra Dodd, Education Fit for a Democracy, Becoming More
Autonomous Parents and Educators, Dyslexia, More on Cleaning up
the Mess, The Fear of Tears, 24-year-old Former Unschooler
Graduates From College |
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May/June 2005
Learning Life
Skills, A Second Language, Learning From Lunch, Taking Risks and
Breaking Rules, Children in Nature, The Gift of Dyslexia, When
Your Toddler Drives You Nuts, Learners in Control, An Unschooled
20-year-old Gets a Job |
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March/April 2005
An Unschooling
Landscape, September Scholar, Resources for Learning by Living,
Natural Fields of Vision, Nurturing Creativity, Some Educational
Superstitions of Our Time, Who Should Clean Up the Mess?, The
Right to be Odd. |
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January/February 2005
Learning Math
Without Being Taught, Careers in the Arts, Internal Rewards,
Unschooling Humor, Nurturing Everyday Genius with John Taylor
Gatto, Celebrating “Graduation”, Learning to Play Peacefully
Together |
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November/December 2004
Choosing to Participate, Seeking Peace and Finding Curiosity,
Restructuring Education, Rules versus Principles, Slow to Get
Ready to Go, Competitive Learning, The Learning Power of
Laughter |
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September/October 2004
Legacy for Grandchildren, Learning from Storytelling, Making
History Live, Learning from Video Games, Learning Manners from
Children, Why Parental Authority Doesn't Work |
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July/August 2004
The Evolution of a Life Learner, Freedom or Control? The Right
to Vote, Supporting Budding Independence, The Art of Educational
Illusions, The Benefits of Boredom, The Family Bubble, Dr. Pat
Montgomery |
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May/June 2004
Living Science, The Unprocessed Child Goes to College, Natural
Reading, Computers for Kids, Learning Self-Confidence, Resisting
Consumerism, Why People Learn Best Outside of School, Roots and
Shoots |
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March/April 2004
Acquiring Reading, Discussion Circles, Learning Love of the
Natural World, Parenting Under the Fire of Criticism, The Truth
about ADHD, Spin-offs Not Outcomes, Interview With Grace
Llewellyn, Beyond Academics, Learning Math from Life |
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January/February 2004
Kids Learning on the Job, Mentors, Did Einstein’s Mommy Worry?
The Benefits of Quitting, Staying Focused to Learn Mathematics,
Socialization – All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Home,
Keeping it in the Family |
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November/December 2003
An Unschooler in
School, Learning Creative Thinking, Safe at Home After 9/11,
Learning Through Play, Single Parent Unschooling, A Question
of Testing, The Myth of Experts |
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September/October 2003
College Credit for
Life Experiences, Why Testing Doesn't Work, How Children and
Adults Define Learning, The Language of Learning, Learning to
Swim, Trusting Little Minds With Big Subjects, What is Wrong
with Curriculum-based Education |
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July/August 2003
Special Needs Child, Patience to Teach Yourself a New Skill, A
15-year-old “Rises Out” of School, Deschooling a Parent, Dealing
With Parental Anger, Letting Them Make Their Own Decisions,
Learning Academics |
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May/June 2003
Defining Education,
Learning with the Scientist Who Found the Titanic, On the Road
to Deschooling Myself, The Flow of Self-Directed Learning,
Admitting to Uncertainty, Looking Past the Behavior, Unlearning
Manners |
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March/April 2003
Reading
When You’re Ready, How Expectations Affect Our Learning,
Learning About School, Unschooling With a Home Business,
Ask Naomi Aldort: To Praise or Not to Praise
Part 3, Beyond Common Sense Parenting, The Need to
Inspire |
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January/February 2003
When the Mentor Gets
Mentored, Who Owns English?, Conversations With Adults Who
Learned at Home, Drawing & Literacy, Combining Unschooling With
Making a Living, Time tabling Autonomy, Find Balance,
Ask Naomi Aldort: To Praise or Not to Praise Part 2 |
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November/December 2002
Supporting Self-Education, Learning Styles, Unschooling Walden
Style, Master's Degree via Independent Study,
Ask Naomi Aldort: To Praise or Not
to Praise Part 1, Spelling With Color, Coercion Defeats
Learning
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September/October 2002
An Unschooled Teen Builds a House, When Your Children Question
Your Choices, Creating a Safe Reading Environment, How Home
Educated Students Adjust to School, Graduate Skills Learned at
Home, Sharing, Learning From Babies
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July/August 2002
What’s Right With Being Wrong, Are There Holes in Their
Education?, Sharing Elder Knowledge, The Scribble
Hypothesis, Visual Thinking Strategies, Helping Siblings Get
Along, Pat Farenga on John Holt |
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May/June 2002
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning, College & Unschooling,
Young Adult Unschooling Success Stories, Profile of Storyteller
Jay O’Callahan, Deschooling a Parent, Was Beethoven Social?
Journaling
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March/April 2002
Rethinking
Self-Education, Creating a Cooperative Learning Center, Learning
Disabilities, Trusting Your Children to Learn, Learning to Write
with Susannah Sheffer, Inspiration from John Taylor Gatto |
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