How I Moved Towards Liberation Education & The Blessing Covid Brings

I truly believe, every parent does the best they can do — in every second — with the information they have on hand. While this phrase eases the pain of making mistakes, what it really should imply is, not only do we make mistakes, we learn from them and move forward to hopefully make less of them.

In these past 33 years as a home educator, I’ve experienced tremendous growth, because I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Huge mistakes that forced me to evolve. My most important life lessons come from my children’s life journeys. (Wrote about that here: You get what you get when you beget a child).

Learning is a profound, vulnerable and intimate thing. It involves so much risk taking, vulnerability and courage on behalf of both the learner and teacher. In home or classroom, the possibility for disapproval, ridicule or shaming is always a possibility. And for a parent, one of the hardest parts of educating are the words “I don’t know.” or “I was wrong.” These two phrases are actually your most empowering, awakening and informative tools.

Covid-19 escalated the requirement for parents to adapt to thought processes which have taken home educators years to research, internalize and embody. And, Covid 19 is shining a glaring, unflattering, undeniable light on all of the problems we face in America.

For me and my son, this time of year is our most bonded, relaxing time of year. We just don’t do much of anything. His life journey keeps…