Turning the challenges into opportunities for connection and growth
ESTHER JONES
It’s inevitable that we will find ourselves frequently challenged when we start to let go of all the “shoulds” about learning and parenting. But, if we have the capacity to get curious about these uncomfortable moments, we’ll discover that they are exactly where our own learning lies.
Esther is a UK-based mindfulness teacher, deschooling coach and mother of three unschooled children. Like so many others, she had never considered any option other than school—the path to unschooling came as the slow and natural result of moving away from all the things that weren't working for her children and family. Esther has written extensively about her own deschooling experience and all the ways in which her children challenged her thinking, in her blog A Place on a Hill, which she started in 2018. Since 2021, she has hosted the bi-weekly podcast, The Unschool Space, in which she explores unschooling with other unschooling parents from around the world. Her book, The Parent’s Handbook to Unschooling Yourself, will be published in August, 2025. Click the link below for her PDF 20 Ways to kickstart your deschooling journey.Â
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