How do you define unschooling? A: It means not going to school! Un-schooling. That’s what it means. J: It’s just really really fun and I love it. O: Unschooling is where you can choose what you want to do. You can choose how you want to learn. So if there is a project you want to do; you can choose it. That’s what I really like about it. What is something that you enjoy getting to do now that you couldn’t do before unschooling? A: I don’t think I could
Why does Marissa have a tattoo of a hat and a bunch of tulips on her arm? I had been wanting to ask her from the moment I saw her arm. Then I did. So I know the story. Marissa is here as a Workaway with us, it is no surprise that she found us, or that we found her. She is twenty two and from America and was/is a self directed learner from the age of fourteen. She is ten years on from what we are doing now, considering
The kids have to wake up at 7.30 to speak to a school class on the other side of the world. It goes like this, ‘Girls, get up we have a Skype call’. In our household, the kids don’t wake to an alarm; they haven’t done that for over a year and a half. They wake up when they want to wake up. I try and wake the girls. I hear ‘Grrr, errr, Mum!!!’ Â and then there is our son, who is up and perky, sits in his dressing gown