Recommended Reading For Your Unschooling Journey
Whether your family is seasoned practitioners or just starting out, these recommended reads will enrich your journey in independent meaningful learning. These books offer personal insights, practical advice, valuable perspectives, and research to help you navigate this self-directed educational path with confidence.
Deschooling Is Difficult
Deschooling is the process that homeschoolers go through once they decide that the self-directed learning path is for them. It involves removing all of the thoughts you had of what education is, and was, and adopting a new way of thinking. If you’ve thought that traditional school was the way to go all of your life, deschooling is going to feel strange and uncomfortable. That’s okay, just lean into it! Some days it may feel like or look like your children aren’t learning, but that is a big part of the process. It takes time for you and your children to relax into what self directed learning looks like for your family. Honestly it took my family a few years to fully deschool. Now I see the beauty in what my children are doing and learning every single day.
Don’t Make Comparisons
Your unschooled children will not look like children in traditional school or even other homeschoolers and that’s okay! Initially it will feel like you’re doing it all wrong. Seeing other kids reach milestones set by traditional curriculum, and wondering if your children are measuring up. You have to remind yourself that there is no ahead or behind in unschooling! Your children are on their own unique educational path and journey. They may excel in one area, and another area that they aren’t so interested in may not be their strong suit. It doesn’t take away from how intelligent they are.
3 Ways Self-Directed Education Helped Me Get Free
Deschooling redefined motherhood as a shared journey of freedom, boundaries, and healing for Akilah. Parenting became collaborative, rooted in mutual respect—not control or fear of outside judgment.
Trust The Process
Unschooling will more than likely be one of the hardest choices we will make for our children because we want to make sure we are making the best possible decisions for their future. Trust that your children will learn, and it’s all about exploring their passions so that they can do what they love in the future. There is learning to be found in everything and everyday. Just keep going and you’ll certainly see your children blossom as their minds expand.
The unschooling journey is so unique from one family to the next, but it creates free thinkers and children who are sure about what they want for their futures.
