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Happy Unplugged Mom Mothers Day
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed In honor of Mothers, It was a pleasure to chat with three extraordinary women who truly capture the eclectic diversity, wisdom, charm and grace in Motherhood. We talked about the Mothering aspect of the home education experience and some of the decisions and challenges we [...]
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Compulsive Compliance: Why We Do What We’re Told
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Why do we compulsively do what we are told? Despite advances in humanity in today’s modern era we still automatically accept imposition of authority over us by politicians, civil workers, teachers etc… but also even in social environments. In some ways we are even more accommodating [...]
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Free to Learn: Interview with Dr. Peter Gray
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Dr. Peter Gray Ph.D is a research professor at Boston College, is author of the recently published book Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 6th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. [...]
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Adam Kokesh Endorses Laurette Lynn for President!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed No, not really. I’m not running for office of any kind, but I did have the pleasure of joining Adam once again as he agreed to grace our unique Unplugged audience with his views on the modern American sociopolitical climate, his thoughts on the future of State [...]
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Parents for Liberty: Interview with the Armans
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Justin and Jessica Arman, founders of Parents For Liberty (Parentsforliberty.org) join Laurette Lynn to introduce their organization and talk about parenting with liberty! Parents For Liberty is a community of individuals and families who are committed to fully immersing themselves and their families into the principles [...]
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Bonus Interview: Steven David Horwich on Cheating Children
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Author, educator, former teacher , blogger and film-maker, Steven David Horwich joins Laurette Lynn to discuss his advocacy work in home education, his experience with schooling and his book, Poor Little Cheated Johnny. Laurette’s review of the book appears here. Mr. Horwich is also the founder [...]
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Vitiated Voluntarysm Undetermined Utopia and Anthropic Amore`
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed In this episode Laurette Lynn ponders the philosophical pragmatic practicality of utopian, universal anarchy and suggests that we already live in a voluntary society although it is not utopian. Can voluntarism and utopia compatibly coexist? Unplug from the paradigms, the proletariat pathos and pontifical patriarchs of [...]
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Happy Unplugged Mom Mothers Day
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed In honor of Mothers, It was a pleasure to chat with three extraordinary women who truly capture the eclectic diversity, wisdom, charm and grace in Motherhood. We talked about the Mothering aspect of the home education experience and some of the decisions and challenges we [...]
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Beyond Unschooling -The John Holt Legacy: Interview with Pat Farenga
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed “Be the Parent all the time”–Pat Farenga Did I ever enjoy this magnificently useful discussion with Pat Farenga, THE (surviving) pioneer of Unschooling. Yes, THE pioneer. Mr. Farenga worked closely with his friend John Holt on home education advocacy, activism and collaboration from 1977 until 1985 [...]
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Compulsive Compliance: Why We Do What We’re Told
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Why do we compulsively do what we are told? Despite advances in humanity in today’s modern era we still automatically accept imposition of authority over us by politicians, civil workers, teachers etc… but also even in social environments. In some ways we are even more accommodating [...]
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Liberation from the Unschooling Gestapo
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed The story behind the podcast This episode is more of a message, or a beacon to families who: Are new to home education and are exploring the radical unschool method Have had the unfortunate displeasure of negative experiences with radical unschooling Desire to incorporate liberating changes [...]
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Free to Learn: Interview with Dr. Peter Gray
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Dr. Peter Gray Ph.D is a research professor at Boston College, is author of the recently published book Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 6th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. [...]
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Coming Up, Incase You Missed it, and More
The following update also appears among more updates and information available on Laurettelynn.com… In the Unplugged Mom arena, I’ve had the thrill and pleasure of speaking with some extraordinary folks and there’s more to come! I enjoyed discussing freedom in learning with Dr. Peter Gray, the future of personal freedom with Adam Kokesh (whose proposed [...]
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Six Effective Video Game Tips for Mothers
Video Gaming is a discussion that we have had several times as well as hundreds of other parenting circles. I think it’s safe to say that it is simply part of our culture. Many of us chose not to incorporate video gaming into our homes, some don’t worry about it whatsoever, and most of us [...]
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Class Dismissed: A Homeschool Movie
All across America, parents are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the state of public education, and a growing number are choosing to pull their children out of school and seek alternative ways to educate them. The current state of our educational system requires us to assess the purpose of schooling, confront long-standing assumptions about education and [...]
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Coming Up!
Coming up soon on Unplugged Mom Radio Interviews with: Parents for Liberty founders Justin and Jessica Arman Adam Kokesh of Adam Vs. the Man Author and Physiologist Dr. Peter Gray Unschool pioneer, author and advocate Pat Farenga Author Janet Sternberg of Misbehavior in Cyber Places Home Education and Life Learning Pioneers, authors and long-time advocates [...]
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Some Points of Contention— Response to a recent article on Children’s MD
I am writing this in response to an article written by Kathleen Berchelmann titled 18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children. Now you might think, “How could she possibly have a problem with a list that is promoting homeschooling?”, but the thing is as I was reading this list many of the responses simply [...]
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