It’s Been a Month!

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It’s been a month since I relaunched Adversarian, and I’ve been having a blast!

Here’s a review of the top five posts so far, in case you missed them. There’s lots more to come, and I have a few extra special goodies up my sleeve. Stayed tuned for upcoming freebies! (It’s a surprise!)

10 Skills You Practice By Playing Video Games
Video games have a bad reputation, but they use your brain more than you think.

Self-Ed 101: 5 Reasons Why You Should Unschool
The most common reasons for unschooling.

Empowered Learning: Unschoolers Are In Charge of Their Education
There’s a certain power in being responsible for your own learning.

Leonardo da Vinci the Unschooler
We’ve all heard about Leonardo da Vinci, but did you know he was self-educated?

Self-Ed 101: Deschooling
Deschooling is the first step to unschooling. Find out how you can ease the process.

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Self-Ed 101: 5 Reasons Why You Should Unschool

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It’s hard to say when exactly I chose unschooling. Looking back, it seems like unschooling always was my choice. I just didn’t know it. Most of my learning happened outside of school. Even when I was in elementary school I understood that. After a few years I started to question why I even needed to be in school at all.

Like a lot of families, I came to choose unschooling through a gradual process. In my first years at school, I enjoyed it. I loved the opportunity to learn. When the system started working against me, I started to question it. Why couldn’t I learn something the higher grades were learning? Why didn’t we read more than one chapter, if everyone was interested and concentrated on it? I didn’t know the world arbitrary then, but that’s what it felt like: a bunch of rules and regulations with no real connection to learning.

Then I discovered homeschooling. That made more sense to me. I already learned more at home than I did at school. A few years after my discovery of homeschooling, I discovered unschooling. That’s when I realized unschooling was what I had wanted all along.

So here I am.

There are a huge number of reasons to unschool. It’s likely there are as many reasons as there are unschoolers. My biggest reasons were not wanting to be stuck with my grade level subject matter. I wanted more.

Among everyone’s reasons to unschool, there are a few things we all agree on: read more