• Head to theunschoolfiles.com for zines, swag, the discord + teen travel patreon.com/theunschoolfiles • Find ROAM: a teen travel collective on Instagram @roam_teentravel @theunschoolfiles.com ..read more

episode 38 of the podcast is all about teens! Meghan chats with Erin Jantz, a Southern California mama of 4 young people ages 9-18. this conversation covers connection, partnership, and the nuance of life without schooling as our young people emerge toward adulthood! we even offer 6 huge tips for connecting with your teens! if you’re a Spotify listener, you can now submit your questions for Erin and I and maybe we can come back together for a q&a! find all the things i’m up to on my website Www.theunschoolfiles.com Support my work by becoming a patron Www.patreon.com/theunschoolfiles Find ..read more

In episode 37, meghan speaks with Sari González and Becka Koritz on how they are supporting facilitators, parents and families in Puerto Escondido (and beyond) through their coaching, trainings and pop-up immersions for worldschooling and traveling unschoolers. they cover their approach to conflict resolution and you’ll learn a little about how Explora began, ways it has had to embrace the agile model and ways they aligned their radical learning with what Sari and Becka are offering now! (including a big announcement at the end) Head to https://www.radical-learning.org to connect to their podc ..read more

in episode 36 Meghan speaks with Lane, a mother of two self-led daughters from a snow globe town on the upper peninsula of Michigan. they discuss how unschooling was a doorway to look at life differently and even unschooling requires deschooling! • find Lane over in instagram as @liz.lemonade • head to www.theunschoolfiles.com/resources/ for links to research, book recommendations and blogs on unschooling. • join Meghan in community on Discord • zines can be found here-> www.theunschoolfiles.com/shop/ • support Meghan’s work and help her save for recording equipment! www.patreon.com/theunsc ..read more

In episode 34, Meghan takes to the mic alone to talk about mutuality, empathy, fearless listening and how it’s connected to the way we are raising children while unschooling. with a couple of F bombs because… language is powerful! Visit the website to connect with Meghan in various ways from being a guest on the podcast or supporting the zine to joining the Discord community - theunschoolfiles.com -as a reminder, the zine is limited print, deadline for this issue is April 15th,2022- The panel mentioned- on mutual dialogue with bell hooks, George Yancy and Harry Brod; philosophers of/by both fo ..read more

in episode 35 i spoke with an unschooler (from the 90’s) turned cognitive neuroscientist, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre. we discussed her childhood in Canada- a bit about her family life, reasons for not attending conventional school and her path to higher education! Find Alexis at www.admacintyre.com Get your copy of the Zine, over at www.theunschoolfiles.com Connect with other Unschoolers via discord at https://discord.gg/zvEaM26Nny ..read more

In episode 33 of the podcast, Meghan is talking with Nikolai Pizarro of @raisingreaders on the concept of decentering school, to center connection and relationship. this discussion touches on educational trauma, the pressure to uphold the school system and the values it thrusts into families. Nikolai is very aware that many families do not have the ability to leave school, and wants to empower parents and young people to know their humanity is priority. she gives real examples of ways folks can walk their children thru their agency while remaining in school. not focusing on the metrics that so ..read more

in this conversation with Akilah Richards, we just feel our way through 5 different phrases. episodes of this podcast are never scripted, but this one is particularly vulnerable and off the cuff. i am so grateful for the time and space shared, and hope this conversation will help folks get a sense of what Akilah means when she talks about Raising Free People via unschooling and what our responsibilities are to the people around us. Connect with me- Theunschoolfiles.com @theunschoolfiles on Instagram drop a me a coffee or buy someone a zine on Venmo @iamsilenth -Subscribe to the UNSCHOOL FILES ..read more

in episode 30 of the podcast, Meghan is speaking with an Austin based unschooling Mama named Demetria on raising Neurodiverse children without school. they discuss her transition from school to a restful home life, strategies for coping to be able to self-direct, and reflect on some vulnerable things as it relates to school and the harm it perpetuates. find meghan at theunschoolfiles.com on Instagram @theunschoolfiles and you can Email me at theunschoolfiles@gmail.com Demetrias Resources! Tik Tok @destini.ann @domesticblisters @oneausomemom @carringtonlbruton @ellaellaw @harrythompsonpda @unsc ..read more

it’s been a while since i have jumped on and spoke alone. i refrain from doing this a lot, because i really value conversation with other people, and never want to seem to have any answers. i literally have none! in this episode i share an update on the journey to “school”, talk about the struggles of finding and building community (and remembering the ones we are in that don’t include Unschoolers), reflecting on what unschooling continues to ask of us, and a question for the community on the abolition or reform of schools! let me know if anything jumps out and you want to connect ..read more