DESCHOOLING

<p><strong>Deschooling</strong> is a period of detox when you get yourself out of the public school mentality and into the homeschool way of thinking. It's also the process of rethinking what education means. Not only do children need to deschool but <strong>parents </strong>also need to make this shift. To help you move from rigid box checking and constant worrying about doing enough into a confident but <em>relaxed </em>perspective, guest June Doran of <a href="http://thissimplebalance.com/unschooling-books">This Simple Balance</a> shares her own transformation as a mom.<br> <br> QUOTABLES</p> <p>June: "...<em>deschooling </em>means deconstructing school, really all things school. So saying, 'What does learning look like? What should it look like? What makes a good education, and who decides what that is? What's worth learning? Why are we even learning?' Really asking all of the questions that before were very easy. It was just, 'Oh, send your kids to school. They know all the answers. They have it all.' And instead taking it back into our hands and saying, 'We're going to deconstruct what is school, and we're going to rebuild from the ground up kind of our own definition of what school is and what a good education is and what learning is and what it looks like.'"</p> <p>June: "So for me, the biggest risk would be my homeschool looking exactly like school and for me, the biggest thing was crushing my kids' love of learning, seeing that die in them, and then not being driven to learn the things they want to learn and not having that natural drive."</p> <p>Thanks to show sponsor BookShark. <a href="https://www.bookshark.com/request-a-catalog/">Request a homeschool curriculum catalog</a> or <a href="http://www.bookshark.com/instructors-guide-samples">download samples</a> at <a href="http://www.bookshark.com/">bookshark.com</a>.<br> <br> TIMESTAMPS<br> 02:41 June tells how she came to be a homeschooler.</p> <p>05:29 How <a href="https://www.bookshark.com/request-a-catalog/">a homeschool curriculum catalog</a> moved