ESTHER JONES

Unschooling is sometimes also called child-directed learning or life-learning. Labels can be misleading as they tend to miss out more...

According to a Gallup poll published in 2017, 85% of adults worldwide hate their jobs. What a depressing statistic! All those years of...

People sometimes wonder how children who don't go to school will make it in 'real' life. That's an odd notion, that school is preparation...

Today it felt like early summer. This is our first springtime here on the hill and it's fascinating to see the different flowers and...

We were living in the centre of Barcelona when my eldest son (now 13) was born. Our house was on a pedestrian passageway, and across from...

Something I often come across in unschooling groups is how alienated people can feel when they choose this path. And I admit that in...

My partner is away for a few days, so life is just that little bit more orderly. When there's another adult here it all feels so...

Entrepreneurship is a natural part of life in this house. Just about every day someone comes up with a new idea for making their fortune,...

One of the most challenging aspects of unschooling for me was letting go of conventional paradigms about gaming, and screen time in...

I thought I'd start some posts about what our average days are made of. I chose Monday because it still feels like a minor act of...

People often ask how I get anything done when I'm with the children at home. Surely, life is too chaotic for me to be productive. Is...

We came back to Spain a week ago, after visiting family for Christmas and New Year. I love to be with family and old friends in the UK,...

I'm writing this post on the morning of New Year's Eve, at my mother's house in the Yorkshire town where I grew up. We come here at least...

Society seems to have created an odd hierarchy of children's activities which, at first glance, is there to help us parent better and...

I often reflect now on my own learning experiences and the ones that have impacted me most. I think that being willing to look at our own...

Our sons, who are now 12 and 11, both learned to read about three years ago, when they were nine and eight respectively. When they were...

One of the most common questions I get about unschooling is how will the children learn maths. It's funny how nervous maths makes us....

I read something recently about how easily and unwittingly we adults turn a learning experience into a teaching experience. A particular...

Our journey to unschooling has taken a few years, and finally arrived at its inevitable destination some months ago. I look back now at...