UNSCHOOL: The Radical Choice

Is It Too Much? - Note on Teens and Technology - England 2025

I see confidence, creativity, fun, self-exploration, adventures, thoughtfulness, learning journeys, and passionate commitment to connections everywhere. Are they busy with other people's lives in unhealthy ways? Most often not, no. That is not what I see.

Beware of the Big Bad Stories - Who we Really Are - Southeast Sussex July 2025

Driving away from the most significant home education festival, possibly in Europe, the smiles will not leave our faces. “This is the presence and present we want for our youth, this is the base we can build a better world on.” Read on to find out what these gatherings are, and why they are so important.

The Power of Gatherings - The Home Educating Families Festival - England July 2025

Driving away from the most significant home education festival, possibly in Europe, the smiles will not leave our faces. “This is the presence and present we want for our youth, this is the base we can build a better world on.” Read on to find out what these gatherings are, and why they are so important.

No rules apply - Nomadic Notes - Netherlands 2025

Oh, this is so funny. I was writing a newsletter last week, opening with thoughts on how we in my country count the week numbers. I was mainly contemplating the problem of commitment and how that unfolds for nomads, how it is part of the freedom mantra, but also getting in the way of the very wanted and needed community.

A Monster is Eating our Clarity - Denmark June 2025

Thoughts on how to stay clear, while the devices keep coming at us with new distractions.

Behind and Beyond the Smartphone-Free Childhood

Is the smartphone really ruining the lives of tweens and teens? Do we need to protect them by keeping them away from the tool? The movement out there is big and it is fed frequently by the repetition of fearful statements.

Let me just remind us all, that fear is never a wise teacher. In the best of cases, fear is a signal to stay alert and to use our humanity: our cognition as well as our intuitive wisdom.

The Price of Unfreedom: How Managerialism Shapes Work, Childhood, and Life

What is the price of unfreedom? How does managerialism control our work, childhood, and daily lives? Inspired by our conversation with Dennis Nørmark, this reflection explores the impact of rigid structures on creativity, trust, and true freedom.

Is time really flying? Krakow November 2024

Walking back home through Krakow one last time, I contemplate the concept of time and whether it is flying. I carry a liter of laundry detergent from the organic shop as I walk in light rain with the teenagers. We have been in Krakow for a month; this is the last full day. Tomorrow, we will spend the day packing, and we will leave in the early afternoon.

This morning, we saw the Maria Cathedral on the main square for the second time; this time, we saw the opening of the altar, a most beautiful …

Learn Nothing Day, Compliance and Avoidance | Day 203 of my 2023 Journal | England

Learn Nothing Day combined with my genuine shock reaction to a new-to-me three-letter diagnosis inspired this text about leaving children be, accepting our parental responsibility of love and support, and shaking off the madness of demands and structure surrounding mainstream family life. Welcome to a rampage about freedom, trust, and real reality.

On math and unschooling - Rome Easter 2023

What if math was voluntary? What if we recognize the fact that all math, including high school level, can be learned by a motivated person in 3 months? Six if we take it easy.

No! It is not normal to want to leave your children in a nusery or kindergarden

It is not normal. It is wrong.

Have you ever regretted leaving your kid in an institution?

People call it "normal," but is it?

That something is normal means that most people are doing it - it doesn't make it right.

In Denmark, the maternity leave is nine months. After this period, it is considered normal to take your infant, who can't yet speak and who often can't even walk, and place your child in the arms of strangers for up to 8 hours or more per day. Because you know - it is normal - and you want to go back to work, or wh…

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Unschooling is about freedom

Letting go of control and ambition is not letting go of presence and enthusiasm. We trust the flow of life, the joy of learning, the natural curiosity everyone possesses and do not plan a curriculum for our children.