I love this so much! Recently we pulled our daughter out of grade 8 and into homeschool because she was emotionally drowning. I started doing what I thought I should, what I did when I homeschooled her in grade 3/4 and quickly received the feedback it was NOT what she needed or wanted and definitely not what I wanted. When I realized her nervous system not going to restore in just a few weeks, my knowing was “just let her do life WITH you, she’ll learn, you won’t be missing anything.” I ignored it for a month and kept trying to enforce curriculum in new ways and cover everything I’m told she needs. It’s was driving us both crazy. It was so hard to just let her do life with me and I felt shame about it. The first week I finally decided to follow the knowing, we were 3 days in binge watching a show that I love and having cool conversations when I received the clarity. She loves bringing inspired ideas to life and animals and modeling ‘doing life’ by watching me in action like she did always as a young child. I’ve let go. Her curriculum is now based entirely around a business selling her creations, fostering animals, and volunteering in the community together. We decide each day what feels best to her to lean into and we flow into expanding it and we do life together the rest of the time. This is EXACTLY the kind of exchange I am creating for myself, my loved ones and others and now I get to embody it real time with my teenage daughter who I felt only two months ago I was losing. 🥹 And it was because I recognized the misalignment and followed the alignment.

@Amanda Connell I appreciate the prompt and space to share 🫶🏼 Thank you! I’m really proud of us both, it is not easy to take the radically different road but it has been getting easier and easier as I truly connect with others choosing it too. We break through the programming, conditioning, and shaming by sharing road less travelled. ❤️