The Unschooled Life: One Family's Home Education Adventure

The Unschooled Life shares many years of experience gained through one family’s home education journey and their discovery of unschooling. Updated with a new preface for 2021. In this book, Lizi Gambell tells how her eldest son became deeply unhappy at school, and how things transformed when they left the system and started to build their own learning life. Lizi shares the ups and downs of this decision, including the process of confronting her own conditioning, and the wonder to be found in learning alongside her children. This is not a workbook or how-to book. The Unschooled Life includes chapters on: Deschooling and Unschooling; Finding time for self-care and wellbeing; Coping with other peoples’ questions and criticism; Tackling screen time and the lure of new technologies. Using anecdotes from her own life, Lizi shows how a real family can develop a holistic approach to education and parenting, and live happily outside the box! Lizi is a remedial hypnotist, with a deep interest in the mind, self-confidence, and overcoming anxiety. In The Unschooled Life, she brings this unique perspective to the opportunities of unschooling.