Amy Bradstreet's Page

what does "radical unschooling" mean to you?

Radical unschooling for me is about trust. Trust in our abilities to learn, to adapt, to grow, to nurture and flourish, without school.

how long have you been unschooling or homeschooling?

Our two children have been unschooled since birth.

first names of children

Olivia Bradstreet
Adam Bradstreet

a little about me

Unschooling as feminist activism with two teens, married, aspiring homesteader, organic gardener, blogger, undisciplined artist, old house caretaker in Maine.


Madly in-love with my husband, Alex, of 18 years (22 years as a couple), who I met in theater class at UMaine. Mother to two incredible people, ages 16 and 13. I am a radical homemaker and the kids have been always unschooled. I spend lots of time reading and occasionally writing about civil rights, kyriarchy, sexuality, class, race, sexism, ageism and ableism, neurobiology, sociology and psychology and the environment.

On the Meyers Briggs, I test a solid ENFP, with low extroversion. My husband and kids also test as E-somethings, and I'm the most introverted. I am a synesthete, with grapheme color synesthesia and I am dyscalculic. As a child, I moved constantly, lived a magical early life in a small, coastal, historic Maine town and I survived repeated homelessness, enduring poverty, abuse, twelve schools and thrity-five moves.

I photograph and blog about our interconnected life, unschooling and living as sustainably as possible, while growing an organic garden, splitting our time between a 120 year old house, a short walk from the beach on Maine's southern coast, and the 18th century family homestead on a pond in central Maine, that we are currently restoring, farmhouse and land.

facebook

http://https://www.facebook.com/OnBradstreet

blog

http://onbradstreet.com

flickr or other photo sharing page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/merbabies/