Fare Of The Free Child

We’re excited about Aja, whom you’ve heard on previous podcasts and one of the things she’s now doing is her own out-loud deschooling.  This is work that is near and dear to us and is healing work, like all deschooling is.  It’s moving outside of all of the different ways that we have been steeped in and informed by trauma. Much of the work we talk about here on Fare of The Free Child is to try not to perpetuate it, to try to recognize the ways that it has us so that we don’t weaponize it.  Aja’s healing work is specifically related to her relationship with her mother and that’s what’s being discussed today.  She’s going to go from just having a conversation about it to really having this massive movement around legacy shifting related to Black mama trauma.  Can adults and children deschool together?  Aja and her son are in transition mode from homeschooling to deschooling because in addition to deschooling herself, she has decided that her son is going to as well. It felt contradictory not to do so, she felt