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How to exit the system
Hey there!I recently shared a video on Instagram that shows a) how to use AI in a productive way and b) how to exit the system (or matrix) and realized that’s exactly what APTB does!…
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Projects, Peers, Passion, and Play
Embracing Creative Learning at A Place To Be: Projects, Peers, Passion, and Play At A Place To Be, we foster an unschooling community that embraces the core values of curiosity, connection, and creative growth. Mitchel…
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The Loss of Self-Sufficiency
The Loss of Self-Sufficiency and the Rise of “Permanent Children”: A Reflection on John Taylor Gatto’s Vision In his provocative quote from Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, educator John Taylor Gatto…
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Who would you be without school?
I have Native American ancestry, and for years I’ve wondered how my family in Peru can know the painful history of our ancestors—forced to accept a foreign religion under the threat of violence—and yet still…
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I prefer not to
What Barnaby Taught Us About Learning and Free Will In my personal life, I’ve been engaging deeply with the topic of setting boundaries over the past 10 days, especially since my husband, who works as…
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Do you want your child to survive?
If you grow up with secure attachment, you learn that life is about connection.If you do not grow up in a secure attached environment you learn life is about survival View this post on Instagram…
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Raising Love: How Unschooling Cultivates Deeper Family Connections
unschooling creates a strong family bond
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Unlocking the mind-body connection
Hey guys, I’ve got another interesting podcast for you but this time it’s not on the fiat-proof podcast and it’s not me who’s being interviewed. Rob was invited onto the self-directed podcast of the Conrad…
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Unschooling and the Rabbit Hole of Potential
If I had been raised by wolves, I would have never learned how to walk and speak because we need others to learn from. However, we all know that none of us have been taught…
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John T. Gatto’s best advice
Hello there! I’m listening to John Taylor Gatto’s audiobook Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling at the moment and what I heard the narrator say yesterday is…
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Linah, our founding member and unschooling mom
Hey guys, I interviewed one of our founding members. Meet Linah, she’s married to our AI and robotics expert Mohammed. They have 2 boys and are keen on raising them the natural way, the fiat-roof…
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Learning is as natural as breathing
Hey guys!Do you also sometimes think that schools seam more like indoctrination camps (shout out to Julie who uses this term a lot ;-) ) than an educational institution? I’m sure you have in one…
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27 year old Bitcoiner who never went to school
Her Plebbles, Meet Lachlan, a 27 year old professional cheerleader and coach who loves to cook. What’s so special about that, you ask? He hasn’t spend one day in a school and is as bright,…
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Max DeMarco is fookin fiat-proof
Hey Plebbles, today I had our good friend Max DeMarco on my Fiat-proof podcast. He’s not a father, he hasn’t been homeschooled but he is one of the most fiat-proof people I know. Max is…
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Traditional schooling, homeschooling, VS. Unschooling - an interview
Her Plebbles, the Bitcoin Atlantis conference is almost 3 months in the past but it continues appearing for us. I was interviewed by Marsilda on the first day and she released the interview yesterday. She…
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Bo feels her way through life
Hey there Plebbles! Whenever I say something like ‘in 20 min.’ to Bo, she asks me ‘How long is that?’ My reply is ‘Like walking from here to the post office’. She’s always happy with…
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Don’t teach to teach
Hey Plebbles, how are you? About 10 years ago, Rob and I attended a seminar with a Tibetan monk called Tulku Lobsang in Barcelona. It was at a time when I identified as ‘spiritual, not…
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Less school, more learning
Hey Plebbles! So, a bunch of parents are scratching their heads, wondering why there won’t be any classes kicking off at APTB. They're fretting over how their kids are supposed to figure out what they're…
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Starving kids in the fiat-world
Hey Plebbles, I had a thought last night that I wanted to put into words: Back in the 13th century, King Frederick II tried a wild experiment to see what language babies would naturally speak…
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Burning my diplomas to the ground
Hey Plebbles, we’re currently in the UK because my parents in law asked us to clear out our stuff in their garage. When we moved to Madeira in 2022, we gave away 90% of our…
