Lots of people worry about how to create transcripts – especially unschoolers. How do you translate Real Life into some educational language? Especially if you’ve spent the entire time living as if school and all of its trappings don’t matter! First, let me reassure you, school trappings – grades, courses, subjects, GPAs – none of Read More
Category: Teens
An Unschooling Path to College
In thinking about writing this article and pondering an appropriate title, I kept coming back to a song that was written for an Off Broadway show a few years back. The song is called “Die Vampire Die” and it’s about all the people (the vampires) who try to suck the life out of your creative Read More
Teen Years – Is it too late to Unschool?
So many kids have been struggling with school! For some it’s the bullying, the pressure to perform, the over-emphasis on testing, the sleep deprivation – the list is really growing all the time. And they’re miserable there. They’re bored and stressed and they think they simply have to accept this as a fact of Read More
Can Parents and Teens Be Friends?
When people are uncomfortable, they tend to rely on axioms and phrases that may or may not have any validity at all. They comfort themselves with a familiar fairly-universally accepted phrase … then they don’t have to think that hard about it anymore. Raising teenagers can sometimes make parents doubt themselves. They find themselves in a Read More
Understanding Your Teen’s Brain… and Behavior
Adolescence can be a tough phase – for the parents and the kids. The transition between childhood and adulthood can go smoothly or can be pretty bumpy, for so many different reasons. It’s not true that all parents of teens will have a rough time, but even the best relationships have one thing in common Read More
Heroes in Training
Guest Blogger, Michael Patterson, shares how to weave community service into the lives of children and teens