Resources for Parents
I am an unschooling/homeschooling mom who practices non-coercive parenting. This is a big part of my path: to foster my daughter’s autonomy, creativity, and learning while guiding her using a non-authoritarian perspective.
This is hard work that requires me (as the parent) to educate myself deeply on the repercussions of authoritarian parenting and the options that are possible if I do something other than that. It turns out, there is a rich, somewhat uncharted world of alternatives to mainstream parenting and schooling that bring profound closeness, play, collaboration, and joy to the parent-child relationship. It has changed my life and my family’s life for the better every day, and I hope you find these resources just as life changing.
Here are resources that I have used and value for my own development towards a non-coercive parenting philosophy:
1. My main non-coercive mentor Vivek Patel
https://www.youtube.com/@meaningfulideas
2. Parenting Decolonized Podcast
https://parentingdecolonized.com/podcast/
3. Fare of the Free Child Podcast with Akilah Richards (this is oriented towards unschooling but has a ton of non-coercive thinking)
https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
4. Aware Parenting with Aletha Solter (for people with small children and newborns)
5. Unschooling Pioneer, Dayna Martin (who is also non-coercive)
6. My YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@rythealee
7. Your Kids Don’t Suck Podcast with Rythea Lee and Cara Tedstone
https://rss.com/podcasts/yourkidsdontsuck/
