EU400: 10 Years: What We’ve Learned (Part 1)

EU400: 10 Years: What We’ve Learned (Part 1)

From Exploring Unschooling by Pam Laricchia

February 5, 2026 · 34 min

About this episode

Pam, Anna, and Erika reflect on their unschooling journeys over the past 10 years in this celebratory episode.

The Exploring Unschooling Podcast began at the beginning of 2016 when Pam released episode EU001: What is Unschooling? 10 Years! And 400 Episodes! To celebrate these huge milestones, we are looking back and reflecting this month. In Part 1 of our celebration, Pam, Anna, and Erika explore the question of what we’ve learned on our unschooling journeys in the past 10 years. It was a very fun question to explore and we really enjoyed digging into all of our answers. We talked about how living consensually is really about where we choose to direct our energy, how there’s no such thing as a perfect unschooler (or a perfect parent!), and how independence is not a good measure of unschooling or parenting success. These were all huge paradigm shifts for us over time that have proven to be so valuable. We thank you so much for being a part of our Exploring Unschooling community and hope you find our conversation helpful on your unschooling journey and in your relationships! Watch the video of our conversation on YouTube . THINGS WE MENTION IN THIS EPISODE We invite you to join us in the Living Joyfully Network , a warm and welcoming online community of like-hearted parents…

People in this episode

Host: Pam Laricchia

Guests: Anna, Erika

Topics covered

  • unschooling
  • parenting
  • education
  • community
  • reflection
  • personal growth

Keywords

  • unschooling
  • parenting
  • education
  • community
  • reflection
  • independence
  • learning

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Organizations: The Living Joyfully Network, Substack, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook

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