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Pam Laricchia
ALLi Author Member
Location: Canada
Genres: General Nonfiction, Philosophy
Skills: Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Self-publishing Workshop/Training
I was the kid with my nose always buried in a book. My parents used to try to coax me off the couch to go outside. I even got in trouble with the librarian for returning books the same day I took them out. With a stern eye she said, "You can't have read them already!" I explained about my speedy bike and how nice it was to read in the summer light on my porch. She relented.
I think I was maybe 10ish when I decided to try my hand at writing. I wrote my first action adventure chapter and gave it my best shot, but upon reading it I found the dialog didn't ring true. I thought, "I guess I'm not cut out to be a writer." I clearly recall that moment, standing in the middle of my bedroom, next to my overflowing bookcase, clutching those handwritten papers. Disappointed, I moved on.
Eventually, I became an engineer. Then an IT systems developer and data mining geek. Then a parent. As I ascended the corporate ladder, I got rather annoyed with the politics, and my eldest got super annoyed with school. So I took a leave, discovered unschooling, and never looked back.
Over the next 13 years I learned incredible things about children and learning and began sharing my experience online, which led to writing articles for magazines and education journals, which led to writing books.
My childhood dream of writing has been re-ignited, and has blossomed into a full-fledged indie author career!
Pam Laricchia's books
Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life
Thinking about homeschooling? Curious about unschooling?
Walk with me as I share the five paradigm-changing ideas about learning and living that freed my family from the school schedule. With over ten years of experience, I have come to see how key these ideas were, and still are, to our unschooling lives. With stories, examples, and clear language, Free to Learn explores the depth and potential of unschooling.
Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home
What does unschooling look like day-to-day? Want to help it take root and blossom in your family?
There are a number of characteristics that allow learning to flourish, and in Free to Live I discuss the four that have had the most positive impact on our unschooling lifestyle. Understanding why these characteristics are so helpful makes it easier for parents to choose to respond in ways that support unschooling, rather than undermine it.
Life through the Lens of Unschooling: A Living Joyfully Companion
As more and more parents challenge the assumptions of the school system, their curiosity about unschooling grows, and often one of their burning questions is: What does day-to-day life look like for an unschooling family?
Pam Laricchia has been unschooling her three children for over a decade. Life Through the Lens of Unschooling, like day-to-day life, meanders here and there, covering a wide array of topics. You'll find essays tackling everything from learning to read to visiting relatives, all organized around nine key words that have been woven into the fabric of their unschooling lives: deschooling, learning, days, parenting, relationships, family, lifestyle, unconventional, and perspective. The theme is life; the lens--unschooling.
Drawn from her popular blog at livingjoyfully.ca, imagine this book accompanying you, a joyful companion on your unschooling journey, as you dig deeper into your understanding of unschooling and what it might look like day-to-day in your family.
If you're interested in learning more about the principles behind learning and living with unschooling, Pam explores them in her books Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life and Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home.
Libre d'apprendre : Cinq idees pour vivre le unschooling dans la joie
Un mode de vie hors des murs et de la pensée de l’école.
Vous envisagez l’école à la maison ? Le unschooling vous intrigue ?
Suivez-moi, je partage ici avec vous cinq idées ayant pour thème l’apprentissage et la vie ; cinq changements de paradigme qui ont libéré ma famille du carcan scolaire. Au fil de plus de dix années d’expérience, j’ai vu ô combien ces idées étaient essentielles, et le sont toujours, dans nos vies de unschooling. Au travers d’histoires, d’exemples et d’un langage clair, Libre d’apprendre explore toute la profondeur et le potentiel du unschooling.