How my home-schooling experience changed my life - an 'alternative' childhood

[Unschooling]

how my home-schooling experience changed my life - an 'alternative' childhood

Nature

When we divert & divest from nature, we suffer the consequences, and it’s making our society sicker than ever before. When you choose SMART anything, such as a Smart Phone, it’s actually the opposite of smart because it’s a diversion from natural. The Natural way is the only smart way. Nature is the answer to all of our problems! We need to experience a paradigm shift in how we live in the world because we currently live in ways that our toxic to ourselves, our environments, and all the species …

Living & Learning

Is there a better way to learn about REAL LIFE than by living it? Life is too short to spend nearly a quarter of our lives being schooled how to live. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde “When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for ‘life’ or ‘growing up uninstitutionalized’.” ~ Grace Llewellyn “You only have one life to live. Make sure it’s yours.” ~ Eleanor Brown “Begin at once to live, and count each sepa…

The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child

#ad https://amzn.to/2SekycW

Educated

I started reading this memoir by Tara Westover as it has been on my reading list for a while and I must say it is an amazing unschooling book. #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “College is extra school for people too dumb to learn the first time around.” ~ Tara Wes…

Why Sitting Down Destroys You

This is a great talk that really destroys the whole idea of school as desks and chairs confine children’s movement. Another reason free play is more important than school, especially when it comes to your health and how your body is naturally designed to function. It turns out humans aren’t made to sit in classrooms, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, as it’s very detrimental to their health and well-being. Another great alternative to sitting in chairs are standup desks or ball chairs. “Sit as lit…

Sitting is the New Smoking

SCHOOL: Sit Down, Shut Up, And Do What You're Told

Self Care

School deprives people of the necessities of life in exchange for an artificial reality that keeps people enslaved while they chase pieces of paper. Schooling is the dehumanization of humanity that normalizes insanity. Schooling is the exact opposite of what humanity needs to thrive which is why it sucks the life out of you. People literally sacrifice themselves for their schooling and this reality couldn’t be more obvious than it is today with schools and colleges force vaccinating students en …

Boredom

“Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Ellen Parr “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ~ Socrates “I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that’s how they learn to be creative.” ~ Kim Raver “Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.” ~ Daniel Goleman “You kn…