Blake Boles

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 146a: Self-Directed Learning Advocate Blake Boles on Unschooling · 9 Dec 2022 podcast

You're still surrounded by all these other parents.

And I know many unschooling parents who are still practicing intensive parenting.

And so it's not easy by any stretch.

There's lots of great writing out there.

A few places to start is with the works of John Holt, who is kind of the father of the unschooling world.

His book Teach Your Own is good, and it's

He's not a radical unschooler.

He's more like an eclectic homeschooler.

And so he's a pretty solid intro to the whole world.

There's a website to go to called the Alliance for Self-Directed Education.

And they have a lot of resources, not just about self-directed learning and unschooling, but also about learning centers and alternative schools where these principles are put into practice.

Because a lot of parents just write off unschooling immediately because they say, well...

We need one parent to be at home to do that or any other version of homeschooling.

And therefore, it won't work for us because, you know, I'm a one parent family or both of us work.

And so, you know, don't write it off so quickly.

Unschooling might not be in the cards for you, practically speaking.

But if you can send your kid to a democratic free school, an agile learning center, a liberated learner center, these are all over North America and increasingly in other parts of the world, too.

And so that can really enable self-directed learning for families that can't do homeschooling per se or just not interested in it.

Yeah, those would be the first places to go.

And I think of the stuff that I've written that's been most helpful to families that are brand new to this, probably my first book, College Without High School.

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