How do you support a neurodivergent teen transitioning into adulthood? It’s all about meeting them where THEY are at – not force them to be where WE think they need to be…
Tag: unschooling parent
Learning math without school
Learning naturally without coercion can take many unexpected turns. This is a story about how a young person starts showing interest for math through their own intrinsic motivation.
Does your kid have a hard time with their other parent?
Being a parent is really hard. Our kids weren’t born with manuals. How can we lovingly support our co-parent so our kids can speak their truth and the adult listen to understand?
Your kid wants to quit?
How can we deal with situations where our kids want to quit the stuff we think they love or should do? Should we nudge or lean into trust?
Triggers that turn us inside out
So, what is triggering for you? Is it toothbrushing? Or having to leave on time and your kid not ever getting ready? Or is it when your kid talks back? Or when you recognize that your kid has privileges you didn’t have as a child? Or maybe when they get upset or sad? Or don’t clean up their mess even though they agreed to do it?
We all have different triggers, and not only do we need to understand what they are – we also need to figure out what they are about.
The pitfalls of treating kids like adults
When we place too high expectations on our kids we may unintentionally set them up for failure. Yes, we need to help prepare them for the world, but by letting them practice being responsible, and with the awareness that we adults need to be ready to step in and take back that responsibility whenever it’s too much to handle for our kids.
Does the perfect parent exist?
Perfectionism isn’t a realistic expectation to have – not on ourselves and definitely not on our kids. We are human and it means we will keep on messing up. That’s okay, as long as we do the necessary repair work.
The role of the unschooling parent
We often stumble across blog posts and articles that kind of hand us a list of the things we need to do as unschooling parents. Basically, we refer to them as the myths of the role of an unschooling parent!