Are We Protecting Children From Growing?
We want children to become confident and independent, yet our instinct to protect them can sometimes stand in their way. What do children learn through taking risks, making mistakes, and navigating challenges—and how can adults support them without taking over?
Who Decides What We Learn?
We spend much of childhood being told what to learn, only to reach adulthood and be expected to direct our own lives. How does schooling shape our relationship with curiosity, initiative, and independent learning—and what does it take to reclaim them?
Why Do Parents Turn Everything Into a Lesson?
We want children to be curious, but when their curiosity appears, it can be surprisingly difficult not to take over. What happens when an ordinary conversation becomes a teaching moment—and our need to make sure children are learning interrupts the learning already underway?
Can We Transform Education Without Giving Young People More Power?
We spend enormous amounts of time debating how education should change, yet the people most affected by those decisions rarely have much power over them. What happens when we begin to see educational reform not only as a question of learning, but of youth rights, agency, and power?
What If Your Child Isn’t Reading Yet?
When a child isn't reading on the expected timeline, worry can creep in quickly. But why does reading carry so much more weight than other things young people learn—and what happens when we begin to question that hierarchy?
Why Doesn't My Child Want to Do Anything?
When a child seems bored, unmotivated, or interested in little beyond screens, it can be hard not to worry. What looks like “doing nothing” may tell us more about rest, recovery, self-direction, and our expectations of young people than we realize.
Homeschooling vs. Unschooling: What's the Difference?
People often think the difference between homeschooling and unschooling comes down to curriculum or structure. But what if the biggest difference has nothing to do with what children learn—and everything to do with how we relate to them? This article explores why the deepest shift isn't educational. It's relational.
How to Stop Comparing Your Child to School
We compare our children to school so automatically that we rarely notice we're doing it. But what if school was never meant to be the benchmark? This article explores what becomes possible when we stop measuring childhood against the classroom and begin seeing life itself as the place where learning happens.
Why Do Some Children Stop Taking Initiative?
Do children become resilient because adults push them—or because they have the freedom to care deeply about what they're doing? This editorial explores how initiative, agency and resilience really develop, and why many of us have misunderstood them for years.
Does Yelling Make You a Bad Parent?
Does yelling make you a bad parent? Many parents carry deep guilt after losing their temper, especially when they're trying to parent differently. This article explores why one difficult moment doesn't define a relationship—and why repair matters more than perfection.
Will My Child Be Okay? Why Parenting Can Never Come With Guarantees
Will my child be okay? It's one of the deepest questions parents carry, whether their children attend school, learn at home, or follow a self-directed path. This article explores why certainty is something parenting can never offer—and why that might not be the problem we think it is.
You Don't Need to Be a Teacher for Your Child to Learn
One of the most common fears parents have when they begin exploring homeschooling or home education is simple: "But I'm not a teacher." This article explores the assumption hidden inside that question and why learning may depend far less on teaching than we've been led to believe.
The Future Is Uncertain. Is School Preparing Children for It?
How do we prepare children for a future that none of us can predict? In a world shaped by uncertainty, perhaps the question isn't whether our children are ready for what's coming, but whether we're helping them develop the agency, resilience, and self-trust they'll need to navigate whatever comes next.