Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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That's that's not how I interpret it, at least.
Most of my previous books were written for young people, uh either teenagers or college age people, um, as the audience.
And eventually I realized that my audience is really parents.
And honestly, it's mostly moms.
And they're the ones who find my books and they hand them to their kids or to to other people in their lives.
And so one part of this book was me finally accepting who my audience is.
And so I said, I'm gonna write a book for parents.
And I finally feel ready for this.
Uh there was one part of me that didn't feel ready for a long time.
Uh, and that's the part that says, Blake, you're not allowed to write a book for parents because you are not yet a parent.
And uh I finally accepted that after working with teenagers for 15 years, over twenty thousand contact hours through my own programs, through summer camps and other people's programs, that I probably have enough experience.
working with other people's kids to have some sort of informed viewpoint and perhaps a a more objective viewpoint just because I've worked with so many different teenagers.
Um
That I said, I'm going to write this book.
And there are some overlaps with my previous books.
There are a lot of points that I've made about how the kids get into college if they don't go to school, about what they can do in the college years if they think that higher education is not the right fit at this moment.
But there was a lot of other stuff that I really wanted to put out there.
For example, there is a lot of nuance in the research, the academic research.
Research that's been done in the alternative education world, especially in the homeschooling and the unschooling world.
And some of it is kind of surprising in the sense that it's it's highly flawed research.
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