One Free Family

This is the introductory episode where we start with our origin story, where we first came up with our ideas for parenting our kids in a radically different way. We will talk about our goals both for parenting and for this podcast. We are both certified school teachers, but we largely identify with the term "unschooling" now because that's our approach based on what feels comfortable with us right now. Sir Ken Robinson, School Kills Creativity video on YouTube SurfWise Documentary is on Netflix! At one point, we considered starting a self-directed learning school, but instead, we decided to forgo the burdensome regulations and work as camp counselors at a summer camp. Summer camp showed us a lot of beautiful things in self-directed learning and opened up a lot of opportunities for us. One thing we were missing in all of this was a community. We looked more seriously at an idea we had heard about for years in the Free State Project, a migratory movement to bring liberty-minded people to New Hampshire. We decid