Roundtable: Accompanying self-directed teens
With: Anthony Eldridge-Rogers, Lehla Eldridge, Marta Obiols, Meghan Suniga-Davies and Lainie Liberti
How does unschooling change as our children get older and start to think about their futures? How can we best accompany them through these years?
Meet our panellists
Anthony Eldridge-Rogers & Lehla Eldridge
Anthony and Lehla are based in the UK and have three adult unschooled children. They co-authored the book Jump, Fall, Fly about their family’s journey to unschooling.
Marta Obiols
Marta is originally from Spain and now lives in Texas. She has three children who were unschooled and are now young adults. Marta wrote the book 18 about her experience of living outside of mainstream school.
Meghan Suniga-Davies
Meghan is a mixed race Chicana mother who lives in Austin, Texas. They've been involved in Self Directed Education (SDE) for many years, raising life-long unschoolers while living in Asia, Europe and USA. Currently an ASDE coordinator, and one half of the ROAM: Teen Travel Collective.
Lainie Liberti
Laine is the author of Seen, Heard & Understood: Parenting and Partnering with Teens for Greater Mental Health and she runs worldschool projects particularly for teens through her organisation Project World School. She has an adult son who she unschooled for many years.
