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

So for example, kids who don't learn to read until later, I think teenagers would be a pretty strong exception, but definitely kids who don't learn to read at the normal age, but instead they're getting up into age seven, eight, nine.

I mean, that freaks people out, right?

And those kids do exist.

And so it's not a myth.

But the myth is that they will be irrevocably damaged by this experience.

And the assumption is that when you look at that kid who didn't learn to read until age eight, because that's when this kid got into Minecraft and all of a sudden decided, oh my gosh, I have to be able to read all this stuff online to be able to participate in the world of Minecraft.

The myth is that that kid will be somehow categorically different

at age 15, from kids who were forced to read at the normal age.

And that's, in my experience, not true.

And in the unschooling world, there's no great, you know, cover up of kids who, you know, can't learn to read or permanently disabled by this early unschooling experience.

And so I think we're speaking more towards the fear and anxiety instead of

myth.

I think socialization is another big one.

I'm sure if you've talked about homeschooling, you've had to deal with this forever and ever.

And again, I've met not just homeschoolers, but unschoolers who do have challenges with socialization because they're relatively isolated, because they don't have opportunities to make many friends, because their friends are online.

And so that is a real challenge.

But these kids still go on

to higher education.

They go on to get normal jobs.

I think that for me, after being in this unschooling world for more than a decade, what I've seen is that unschooled kids don't face seriously different problems from other kids in their same socioeconomic demographic.

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