Wait... do unschoolers actually plan? 🗓️

Hi Reader!

Someone asked a question last week, and it's actually a topic we talk about regularly inside my Creating Confidence Membership community. As I started to answer, I realized it needed way more than a simple comment.

It’s a worry I hear all the time from parents who are moving toward unschooling:

“If we don’t use a curriculum... how do we plan anything?”

Were you wondering how to do that too, Reader?
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Most of us were trained to believe that planning means lesson plans, subjects, and assignments.
So when you remove the curriculum, it can feel like you’ve completely lost your roadmap. 🗺️
Suddenly, that familiar panic sets in: Are we doing enough?

But here is the secret: Unschoolers actually do plan.

We just plan differently. Unschooling planning isn’t about deciding what your child must learn next. It’s about shaping an environment where curiosity has room to grow. You aren't planning a school day; you're planning a life. One week at a time.

Because this is such a big topic, I decided to dedicate this week’s Unschooling Mom2Mom podcast to it.
I’m sharing 3 simple tools unschooling parents use to plan their weeks—without turning into their child's teacher.

🎧 Click here to listen to this short episode OR read the blog post!​

(Note: When you click over, you can hit play on the audio player at the top of the page, or just read along with the transcript—whichever you prefer!)

Need a little extra help actually doing this?

If you listen to the episode and think, "I love this, but I need help putting it into practice," I want to invite you to join us inside the Creating Confidence Membership.

Every single week, we do a Monday Planning Meeting together on Zoom! It is the perfect place to get help moving in this direction, find accountability buddies, and start your week feeling confident, grounded and connected with other unschooling parents.​
Click here to learn more and join us for the next one!

If you've been stressing over schedules or worrying about how to make sure learning is happening without a lesson plan, this week's episode is exactly the reassurance you need today.

Happy Unschooling!

P.S. Keep an eye out—I'll be sharing the video version of this topic in a couple of days!
But if you need this pep talk right now, go grab the audio or read the post!

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