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

It's been my pleasure, Debbie.

Thanks for asking good questions.

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 209: Blake Boles Asks Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School · 17 May 2020 podcast

I think that those families who do see that their kids are thriving a bit more, not being in the traditional classroom, and who are a bit disillusioned by uh the the taste of of school that they've seen during the pandemic time, I think those families might opt for something different.

And even if it's two percent or three percent of all the families who are doing remote schooling right now, that'll be a huge number.

number of people and that could be a big influx into the world of alternative and self-directed education.

Thanks for having me, Debbie.

Good to be back.

Let's dive into the murky waters.

Sure, I think of unschooling as full-time self-directed learning.

And so most homeschooling parents will start by thinking, okay, there's some things that my kid absolutely has to learn, math or foreign language or social studies, whatever it is.

And then they can have some self-directed time um after they do that mandatory stuff.

And unschooling is about making the self-directed stuff paramount and making that first priority and saying, once my kid realizes that they need math or they need foreign language, uh, I'm putting faith in them that they will uh figure out how to gain those skills, how to learn that content, how to jump through the necessary hoops.

But the most important thing is that they learn how to be self-directed, they learn how to be intrinsically motivated.

And that will solve most of their problems in life.

I I agree and I would like to reinforce your obsession with that book because the self-driven child is excellent.

And Bill and Ned did a much better job of speaking to a wide audience of parents, parents who are firmly in the conventional school system, uh, than I have ever done in my books.

And uh I had Ned on my podcast and and I said, Hey, your book essentially implicates conventional schooling.

at every turn.

You don't say it explicitly, but it's there.

And he said, Yeah, we couldn't publish the book if we were gonna be so inflammatory, so I agree with you, but we couldn't write those words in the book.

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