Guest Post – Educating our Children…and Ourselves

Educating children is one of the primary focuses of our family. As unschoolers education is ingrained in our every day and always on our minds. Today I’d like to share a different perspective with you all. We have a great guest post from Ellie Hirsch, The Mommy Master™ about her experience with the education system and quest for the…

The Kids Aren’t All Right. ‘Race to Nowhere’ – Movie Review

Race to Nowhere exposes the dark side of America’s achievement culture and its harmful effects on our children.  I had an opportunity to attend a screening of this film this week.  Overall it was a sad tale of the stress and overwhelming pressure today’s youth is under.  It exposes a school system in which neither educators nor students are truly thriving but just getting by, or…