A Potluck Life

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  • Another look at ‘Captain Fantastic’

    Warning: Captain Fantastic spoilers follow! Last summer, I went to see the movie Captain Fantastic. There was much I enjoyed about it, but I also took issue with its portrayal of homeschooling. I wrote about my thoughts in a review. Several commenters disagreed with my interpretation of the ending, so I took another look. After…

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  • ‘Unschoolers’ coming in March

    I’ve been a homeschooler with an unschooling philosophy for 26 years. I’ve read a lot of great books on the subject, but it’s rare to encounter homeschoolers and unschoolers in fiction. It’s even more rare to see our lives portrayed as anything other than extreme in one form or another. So, I, along with my…

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  • Unschooling: they still don’t get it

    Today I came across an article about homeschooling by Mirza Yawar Baig that lifted a quote of mine from last year’s Boston Magazine article. In talking about my kids I said: “I wanted them to be in charge of their own education and decide what they were interested in, and not have someone else telling them…

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