I thought I’d introduce my tribe and give you an idea how we make it work as an unschooling family as I get asked this a lot.
We are going into our fourth year unschooling. In many ways I feel it was only yesterday Nick and I were having those back and forth conversations and reading everything we could get our hands on.
Some called us mad, others called us brave. We felt neither, simply we were doing what felt like the right thing for our boys and our family.
On-line schooling during that first lockdown was such a shit show, we were constantly fighting with the boys, all our nervous systems were in fight or flight, so we did it. Letters of de-registration were sent, we are asked repeatedly by the boy’s prep-school to reconsider our decision, and then, we were on our own.
Life has unfurled and unfolded in the most beautiful of ways and now we are here.
So here’s my tribe :