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Love this.

Is using unschool as a transitive verb even accurate to the concept as you have described it here? “We unschool our kids” as if it is something we are doing to them. Not a criticism just taking it further.

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Yeah I personally don’t say that but I know people do and that’s a great point. I would say “we’re unschoolers” or I have sometimes told people “we homeschool” for clarity and my kids have corrected me, “we unschool, mummy. Unschool” 😂😂 it’s more a collaborative thing than something I do TO them. And I should add that I only call us unschoolers because they like that term and own it. If they didn’t want to be unschoolers we would find another term.

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I actually do think a lot of people are against the idea of radically questioning the basic fabric of Western society, which is where unschooling quickly leads you. Doing so quickly challenges the status quo, which benefits many of us.

I love how you framed all of this though, and it helps to illuminate why it rubs when people say things like “we unschool history” and by that they mean they just don’t study it in an adult directed way. There’s no question asking there at all.

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Yesss totally. That last thing has never made sense to me. And yes, I agree most people don’t want to frame is as questioning constructs because it’s too confronting.

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Hi Fran, is your Monday Day in the Life a new thing? I’m looking for it on Instagram but can’t find any, but also not confident I’m very good at knowing which days are Mondays!

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I’ve been doing it for a few months now. It’ll be in my stories - and since I’m 6 hours or so ahead of you they may all have disappeared by now!

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Aah ok, thanks. I’ll keep checking, I love seeing how other families’ days look.

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