Our Transition Into Unschooling: Raising independent thinking, information seeking, self-directed lovers of learning and life all through school-free living.

Updated April 2015
There are systems and structures all around us, and some may seem inviting or even unavoidable. But if you can manage to find or facilitate a community of people — whether local or virtual — who are doing the work of deliberate life design and of defining and creating liberation based on their own definitions of it, then start there. I know unschooling isn’t feasible or even for everyone, but I also know that it is an option for many people, if they could believe that there is more to life than waiting for Fridays and cursing Mondays. We had that life, and with little money and few examples, we are creating a new normal for our family. Today, our measure of success ignores GPAs, degrees and the American Dream, and instead puts a focus on confident autonomy, autodidactic learning, strong discernment skills and happy people who are willing to approach their own ideas of liberation and joy from an action-based space.

Who this book might help:

Those who are thinking of transitioning from traditional elementary school to an alternative learning method such as unschooling or homeschooling

Those who are curious about unschooling

Those who believe they are way too impatient to homeschool their children

Those who think their child might end up "dumb" if they're not in a traditional educational environment.

I am offering resources for the mindset that facilitates alternative learning, and I am sharing what has worked for my daughters, my husband, and me. This is an information source that details both the Strategy and the Soulwork behind our transition from information capture to curiosity-led learning and living.