Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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They're just practicing 21st century skills for survival a little bit earlier than the rest.
That's right.
And when you take a kid who's been in the traditional system for a long time and you do give them a little dose of freedom, maybe you're thinking about dabbling with unschooling.
You say, let's try this for three months.
Most parents see their kids do nothing for three months because that is the first taste of freedom that this kid has gotten.
If you were in jail for a long time, you'd probably want to go and relax a bit too.
And so there are these short-term tests that parents do that often look like failure's
regarding unschooling.
But what you're really seeing is the de-schooling process, which the rule of thumb is for every year the kid's been in school, give them a full month to do absolutely nothing because they need to decompress.
They need to experience boredom.
They need to experience the reason why they should be intrinsically motivated because otherwise life is boring and pointless.
And yeah, that self-direction tends to pick up.
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Yeah, and this happens with kids who might be neurotypical but are stereotyped as the good students.
This happens for kids who are stereotyped as the bad students.
The amount of labeling that we take with us from school lasts a long, long time to the extent that many parents push their kids to do a certain thing in school because of their own labels that they have been not dealing with.
And so I was one of the good students.
I got A's in school.
I was good at pleasing my teachers.
I was good at picking up academic work and figuring out how to play the game.
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