Stories of Unschooling Families

Sue Elvis, Community Founder

Sue is an Australian blogger at Stories of an Unschooling Family and the founder of this community. She is also a podcaster and Youtuber, and the author of two unschooling books, Curious Unschoolers and Radical Unschool Love.

As you might guess, she is passionate about unschooling. (Maybe you are too!) Sue is no longer a host, although the community is influenced by her work which is often referenced.

Chellie, Host

Chellie is a married mom of two. She loves to read, bake, and write. She has always homeschooled, but found Sue's blog and decided to unschool. She has been unschooling ever since. She has a passion for sharing ideas and resources, and welcoming children into the community, either as members or collaborators with youth and family content.

Erin, Host

Erin has been living and learning alongside four wonderful kids (two of whom are now young adults) for many years. She enjoys chatting with other parents about what unschooling looks like for their individual families and also loves exploring and life learning as an adult. Erin lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband, two youngest children and two lovely tuxedo cats. She blogs at Ever Learning.

Noel, Host

Noel has homeschooled from the time her oldest was kinder age (going on 8 years) and started unschooling a year ago after reading Sue's books and finally finding unschooling explained in a way that made sense to her. What started out a trial period has now turned to a love of unschooling. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, spending time outdoors, crocheting, finding the learning in all aspects of life and talking to other moms about unschooling. Noel lives in Texas with her husband, 5 children, 2 dogs, 1 cat, and 20 or so chickens.

Photographs by J. Gilmore

We hope this unschooling community is a source of encouragement, support, information and friendship for anyone interested in unschooling. 

It doesn’t matter if you are a long time unschooler or just setting out on your unschooling adventure. Perhaps you just want to find out more about unschooling before committing to this way of life. Whatever your situation, you’re very welcome to join our community!

What can you expect from this community?

Firstly, our community is a place of gentleness and acceptance where we enjoy slow conversations. It’s a place where you can ask questions as well as share your experiences.

In our community, you’ll find: 

• unschooling challenges which help us turn unschooling principles into something real in our lives
• resource ideas
• strewing posts
• homeschool registration and record-keeping ideas
• our unschooling weeks posts where we share what’s happening in our lives
• adult unschooling topics because unschooling never stops!
• parenting conversations 
• Zoom discussions and social chats
• book and article discussions
• weekly ideas to ponder
• groups including Youth Unschool Hangout, a place for our kids to meet
• virtual family and child get togethers and activities
• two Marco Polo groups to choose from, general group and one with a slower, quieter pace - ideal for introverts
• a place where you can tap into as much or as little as you’re interested in!

You’re welcome to join the Stories of Unschooling Families community. Just hit the Choose a Plan button!

We hope to see you soon!