Blake Boles

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 146: Self-Directed Learning Advocate Blake Boles on Unschooling · 26 Feb 2019 podcast

I went to university because I thought I wanted to be an astrophysicist and very quickly I was mugged by reality.

And instead got into alternative education and designed my own degree to study education full time because that just seemed a lot more interesting and relevant and important.

And I started working at a summer camp after university called Not Back to School Camp, which is the preeminent summer camp for teenage unschoolers in the US.

And that's where I got to really meet a lot of these kids face to face.

And it was so inspiring to meet them and to to experience what it's like to work with teenagers in this more, I guess, authentic setting.

And that inspired me to to write books about them and for them and to start a company called Unschool Adventures.

Through which I've taken teenage unschoolers on long term international trips.

For the past ten years.

And that's how I've been making my money.

And uh th that's the short story, Debbie.

Yeah.

It's been a great ride.

Homeschooling is legally the same thing as as unschooling and so there's no separate designation between unschooling and homeschooling.

But unschoolers reject this word.

home school 'cause it implies school at home and that conjures this image of

mom teaching algebra at the kitchen table and the parent who has to be an expert in all these different subjects.

And really most people who start out with traditional homeschooling, they migrate away from it.

There's studies that confirm this.

Within a few years, most families move towards something that looks more like eclectic homeschooling, and some move straight into unschooling, especially with older kids.

I think younger kids are much more adult and more parent-oriented, but as soon as you hit adolescence, they become more peer oriented.

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