If the phrase “school wounds” stirs something inside of you, or the words “crisis schooling” describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, or you’ve just always intuited that there’s something not quite right about modern compulsory schooling, this episode is for you.
TOPICS:
The reimagining of schooling as we’ve known it
Akilah's story of schooling and unschooling
Unschooling is not just school at home- it’s a whole new paradigm of learning, power, and belonging
School wounds
The radical presence it takes to raise up kids in this way
How leaving school can free up a family’s life in myriad unanticipated ways
Schoolishness and the American Dream, in which so much of the actual human gets lost
The slow normalization of dehumanizing systems and institutions
Being constantly in curiosity about how our children (and ourselves!) actually learn
Reframing consent in the parent/child relationship
The liberation of being allowed bodily autonomy (especially for black folk)
Akilah’s response to the common assertions that only stay at home parents/rich people/white people can school at home
Actionizing love & recognizing that it’s all portal work
RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast)::
RaisingFreePeople.com
Fare of the Free Child Podcast
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards
Akilah's Patreon
Akilah on Instagram
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Psychology Today article
John Tayloe Gatto’s many astute writings on modern schooling
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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