{"id":885,"date":"2017-02-24T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=41"},"modified":"2017-02-24T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:30:48","slug":"41-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Unschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unschooling is a term that probably makes us contemplate the uneducated. Quite the contrary; &#8220;unschoolery&#8221; is simply learning for pleasure. Unschoolers (ideally) advance from personal interests. &#8220;Because it&#8217;s fun, or fascinating, or they care&#8221; (Leo Babauta, 2014). However, everyone is not a potential candidate for home education or self-directed learning. Sometimes, people need guidance; other times a guide will get in the way. Yet, learning with a purpose and a specific interest becomes the self-guided direction.<\/p>\n<p>Homeschooling options are vital for both youth and parents when there are illnesses. I&#8217;ve been there myself. Personal experience involved my child dropping out in the 8th grade. Yet, before criticizing my parenting, let&#8217;s consider the roots of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>My unschooler drop-out is legally blind\u2014corrective sight is 20:30. She wears thick, heavy, eye glasses or contact lenses (preferably daily disposables). These are two options. The other choice is living with a vision handicap. Misplaced glasses and no funds for replacement contact lenses have been problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Poverty is challenging to be deprived. Yet, we can all become pioneers through creativity. Creating a diversion helps the big issue gets smaller. Learning to play with imagination, dreams, and visions delivers hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unschooling is a term that probably makes us contemplate the uneducated. Quite the contrary; &#8220;unschoolery&#8221; is simply learning for pleasure. Unschoolers (ideally) advance from personal interests. &#8220;Because it&#8217;s fun, or fascinating, or they care&#8221; (Leo Babauta, 2014). However, everyone is not a potential candidate for home education or self-directed learning. Sometimes, people need guidance; other&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-unschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}