Tag: Parenting
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DAD’s role in Unschooling, Home Schooling and even schooling
A lot of mothers frequently ask this question: What is the father’s role in unschooling and homeschooling? Hi, I am Ratnesh from Aarohi Life Education. I am also a father of two children who have grown up without any school or college degrees, and are now successful adults and professionals. To answer this question, let…
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Magic of Co-Creation: Shifting from Control to Partnership in Home Schooling UnSchooling
Often, when families choose homeschooling or unschooling as an educational path for their children, a common shift happens: somehow, everything is taken entirely into the parents’ hands. But true education is not about taking all the control into our hands. It is about co-creating with the child. In this whole journey, the child is an…
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Tied-Up Parent – OR – Unlimited Parent?
So, imagine that you tie yourself up to a chair. Yeah, nicely tie yourself up to a chair. What will happen? Now, once you are tied up to your chair, obviously you can’t move anywhere. In fact, go ahead and do this. Tie yourself up and see what happens. But you see, if you imagine,…
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The Misconception of “Playing Away” Time: What Learning Really Looks Like
One of the most frequent questions I encounter as a parent at Aarohi Life Education is a sceptical one: “Do children actually learn anything at all at Aarohi?” From the outside, a self-directed learning environment can look like a mystery to those accustomed to traditional schooling. To many, the children seem to just be doing…
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What if we’re stuck in our unschooling home schooling journey
When families first contemplate stepping off the beaten path and beginning their educational journey with home schooling or unschooling, a common fear often arises: “What if we get stuck along the way?” Because this is an entirely new path for most parents, it is completely natural for this question to loop in your mind. I…
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Business or Child?
As parents—especially as homeschoolers and unschoolers—we tend to hold what is right and what is wrong as very important. When a child does something right, we say, “Yeah, this is right!” We are happy, and we want more of it. And when the child does something wrong, according to us, then we want to change…
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The “Beautiful Loss”: Understanding the Paradox of the Pre-Teen and Teen Years
Parents of pre-teens and young teens (ages 12 to 17) often look at their children with a mix of love and sudden anxiety. In conventional education, these years—middle school through early high school—are treated as the starting grid for a lifelong race. Parents are conditioned to think, “This is it. It’s time to get serious,…