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Pam Laricchia

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Pam Laricchia is a long-time unschooling mom from Ontario, Canada whose three children left school mid-year back in 2002. She loves exploring unschooling and sharing the fascinating things she’s discovered along the way about learning and parenting.

Pam’s articles have been published in Toronto Life magazine, The Natural Parent Magazine, Life Learning Magazine, The Homeschooler, and the peer-reviewed Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning.

She's also written five books about unschooling: What is Unschooling?, Free to Learn, Free to Live, Life through the Lens of Unschooling, and The Unschooling Journey.

She hosts the weekly podcast, Exploring Unschooling, with more than 100 episodes in the archive.

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EU395: Navigating All the Needs

In this episode of Exploring Unschooling, Pam, Anna, and Erika talk about navigating all the needs in our unschooling families. Navigating all the needs can be one of the biggest puzzles of parenthood. In many cases, we’re going from only being responsible for ourselves, to then being in partnership with someone else, to then adding children one by one. And as the children are growing, they ea

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“Children who have the freedom to explore a variety of things and discard them when they no longer make sense do not feel like failures when they choose to drop something. Instead they see it as another experience from which to learn a bit about something and a lot about themselves. This is a much better attitude than the child who is forced to stay, being told to suck it up and stick it out, who begins to feel powerless and resentful. As an adult this child is more likely, for example, to stay in an unhappy career so as not to look or feel like a failure, though he will definitely feel trapped.”
Pam Laricchia, Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life

“Have you thought it through yourself or are you accepting the messages that are flying around?”
Pam Laricchia, Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life

“Curiosity is, in essence, the replacement for curriculum when unschooling. And that is why being curious is such an important trait for unschooling parents to embrace.”
Pam Laricchia, Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home

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