This is our page specifically for Families and their children. We are working on special, age-appropriate educational resources, downloadable coloring books and work-books, music, and even providing some fun video book readings.
If you are a parent – or a kid – and have a suggestion about a resource that would be helpful to you, please contact us so we can add it to the site or make it real!
A Little About Our Family
We are a “queer” family with a five year old child. Our young one was born outside on the earth, using traditional child-birth methods. We followed our cultural protocols as much as possible including the use of a traditional birth structure, and witnessed how our ancestors and the Earth responded! Our child’s birth was aided by an extended family member who is also a birth assistant, and we had two midwives available by phone if needed. We addressed all medical issues associated with the birth via herbal preparations.
Over the last five years, we have worked very hard to provide our child a strong foundation of cultural identity and knowledge of his ancestral language and birth place. He understands where he is from, who his people are in Zalde Herria (europe), and that we live on other Indigenous people’s lands on Turtle Island until we can return to our home place. We have been blessed to have lived in nature and around wild animals for many months at a time.
Our child has been exposed to understandings about whiteness, white privilege, and white civilization. He has Indigenous uncles and aunties from Turtle Island who have cared for him and shared with him understandings from their own cultures. He has been invited to participate in Indigenous dances and protocols. He assists in all of our family’s efforts on Indigenous rights and social justice in ways that are meaningful for him.
Our family is currently involved in “unschooling” as the form of home and participant-based education for our child. He is thriving! We organize a weekly “nature club” in the outdoors (rain or shine!) to encourage children playing freely in relationship with nature without parental micro-management. We have a growing number of families who are also participating. We also participate in regional unschooling groups.
We share this as inspiration for your own family. We run into many families who would like to live and school in similar ways and we try to support that as much as we can. We offer you our encouragement. Most of all, we would love to meet and talk to others who are striving for similar values and ways of life through these movements. Tzori on!
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