What makes unschooling challenging?
Unschooling isn’t hard because you’re not a professional teacher, you lack resources, intelligence or knowledge. It’s hard because of our conditioning.
Letting go of control, fear, and the belief that we or our children are “failing” if we don’t do it all
The real unschooling journey is internal
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For me, the hardest thing is to get out of the system. I would need to emigrate, which is something to consider.
Definitely worth it
Yes it's hard because of the social-political environment.
France has -prohibited- required an authotization for it a few years ago, but the hardest thing is the global acceptance of french people that school is necessarily the best choice, making most conversations aout it a dead-end
I think this is the case in most countries. We’re the minority wherever we are and most people believe school is necessary and the one and only way but just this week I had a chat with our local butcher and his assistant. While paying the butcher his assistant asked me ‘where are your daughter? In school?’ (Because the usually accompany me)
I said: No, they don’t go to school.
We had a 10min conversation in which I explained many reasons why schools are a bad choice when it comes to learning. They simply couldn’t argue against what I had to say. They kept agreeing with me and in the end the assistant even said: schools are like jails.
I had the same experience with many people here in Madeira and Germany.
And thank you for your zap and sharing my post 😊🫶🏼
