by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 15 Entrepreneurship, 25 Social Media, 31 Technology, 38 Money

You don’t need to go to school to be a self made millionaire

This morning my husband shows me the Instagram account of a self made Italian millionairess who has made her fortune via Instagram. She just takes pictures of herself, in various outfits, looking sometimes like a model and sometimes quite normal. She has done this for years and now gets paid by fashion houses to promote their fashions. I assume that is how she has made her millions. My knee jerk judgmental response was that she is narcissistic. But that would be missing the point. She is clever. She has made

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by Lehla Eldridge in
04 Family Wellbeing, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 09 For Parents, 12 relationships, 27 Play Hanging out and Fun, 38 Money

Life Without School

Our children do not go to school and they love it. They have no uniforms, there is no homework to be done, no tests to be taken, no sticker charts, no lunch boxes to pack, no exams to pass. If schooling was a train then they are not on it, they are not even on the platform and if learning was an ocean then they are in it riding the waves and nobody is telling them how to swim. We don’t tell them what they have to learn, they don’t

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by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 09 For Parents, 27 Play Hanging out and Fun, 38 Money, 39 learning maths, 41 Socializing

Can kids learn more when the parents are not getting in their way?

When we recently went to the Unschooling/homeschooling event in Italy I was slightly frustrated as I knew that there was going to be a market and we did not have our car. It is a long story. We had a tiny car that the mechanic lent us, so there was no space to put in all the toys that our kids had wanted to sell at the market. They had nothing to sell. So on the day of the market this lovely family  asked if our son would like to

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