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How to navigate identity crisis in unschooling communities

Our homeschool co-op started because we all believed in unschooling and self-directed learning for our kids, but three years in some of us are panicking that we're failing them while others are doubling down, and the kids are picking up on this tension between the parents who are supposed to model confident learning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to self-directed learning faces the anxiety that their educational philosophy might be inadequate, creating fractures in both community and parental confidence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Self-directed learning as identity?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.