After investigating the difference between homeschooling and unschooling, I was curious about the definition of radical unschooling. To get one educator’s take, I read Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun, by Dayna Martin. Here’s Martin’s definition: Radical unschooling, which expands unschooling philosophy to parenting, means you extend that same trust to other areas of your child’s life, like foods, media, … Read more
It’s rare for me to wholeheartedly endorse a book as being important enough that every parent should read it, but I’ve just finished one that’s as close to that designation as I’m ever going to find. It’s Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With Or Without School, by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver. … Read more
Last night I paid our cable company to reinstate our access to the Oprah Winfrey Network just long enough to watch Our America with Lisa Ling, which was doing an episode about “Extreme Parenting.” Ling interviewed four families: wealthy “tiger” parents who pay $40,000/year/child for a year-round high-pressure school, unschoolers who allow their four children to learn … Read more
If you’ve read How to Tutor Your Own Child, you probably saw Chapter 6, “iDon’t Think iKnow Where My Homework Is: Helping Kids Connect and Organize for the Twenty-First Century.” In it, I address how to maximize the educational impact of 21st-century technologies. Now, I wish I could go back and augment the section about Facebook–since … Read more
School’s out for the afternoon, and it’s time for real-life learning to begin! Despite the best intentions of a classroom teacher, it’s incredibly hard to keep up with the individual needs of every student. But you as a parent have an advantage: You see your children daily and can nurture classroom learning with resources at … Read more
