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Welcome to Unschooling Every Family, an unschooling support group for parents and caregivers of atypical* kids.

We have found that non-coercive and relationship-based approaches work much better for our kids than most mainstream methods of education and therapy.

Unschooling is a type of homeschooling, but it is very different from the “school-at-home” approach most people are familiar with. It requires a paradigm shift for parents’ minds, which is called deschooling.

This community formed on facebook because many families found that standard unschooling advice isn’t always written with their children or themselves in mind. You can also join our private support group on Substack to post support questions, read archives, or access our Zoom Q&A chats.

We ask everyone participating in this space to honor, center, and learn from each others’ lived experiences of neurodivergence, disability, and unschooling.

*Atypical includes neurodivergent, (autism, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, ADHD, gifted, 2E, highly sensitive, TBI, bipolar, etc.), physical disabilities, genetic differences, sensory differences, Downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, chronic asthma, epilepsy, blind and visually impaired, deaf and hearing impaired, medically complex, chronic illness, chronic pain, mental and behavioral health issues, explosive, avoidant, cancer or other illness, PTSD, and cPTSD, and other forms of neurodivergence and/