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Adulting and other Questions from Life is Good Unschooling Conference

Roya Dedeaux

Whenever possible, you'll find me every Memorial Day weekend in a lodge in Washington where the bird song is piped into the hallways and the children only run slightly feral.

The LIFE is Good Unschooling Conference is a regular event I am honored to speak at - and this past year I did 3 sessions to parents and teenagers. I was asked so many thoughtful questions that I wanted a place to gather them and respond thoroughly. So this blog post is going to be a bit of an ongoing collection as I write and record and keep adding.

As many of you know, I was pulled from school at the end of 4th grade, and returned only to start taking community college courses when I was about 13. Now that I'm a parent, we homeschool as well. I'm coming at these questions from my personal life as an unschooled kid, as a homeschooling parent, as a recreation and leisure professor, AND as a licensed therapist.

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Have you dealt with depression and feeling paralyzed? What did your parents do that was helpful and supportive?
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What made you decide that unschooling was the right choice for you?
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How do you get past feeling behind in traditional school subjects if you don't have a real need to catch up with them?
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Anxiety over choices
How to increase your self-confidence
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Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on using creative tools like art, writing, and recreation as a way to help teens and their families who don't quite fit the mold.

Roya’s first book, Connect with Courage: practical ways to release fear and find joy in the places your kids take you is the result of her background in Recreation and Leisure Studies and Marriage and Family Therapy and is the base of her Connect with Courage Parenting Course.

She loves running her private practice, creating art prompts for her two online art groups, and running games and challenges in the free Recreate Parenting Facebook community! When she's not doing that, she loves to make messes with her three wild & wonderful kids where they live and play hard in Southern California.

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