Sometimes it’s the little “insignificant” things

When I talk to others about unschooling I feel they miss the point of how the insignificant little are actually the big things.

It’s pretty exciting not to have to do all those little things anymore. And people (probably) see them as “insignificant” because they either haven’t experienced the removal of such things, or they are unable to understand that they way of the current world is damaging to so many of us.

One such simple example is the morning rush, traffic and getting to school on time, or face being scolded or shamed as a parent and a child.

That no longer exists in our life.

Another example is term time holidays. No permission from school is needed. And there are no school fines to worry about.

This no longer exists in our life.

Or perhaps it’s the pressure to do the expected things. We must do the handwriting! We must do the spelling! We must do the maths! And the homework!

This no longer exists in our life.

These are the “little insignificant things”.

Insignificant to you. To society. But to us, they are massive, especially in accumulation.

It’s like being slowly killed by 1000 paper cuts. Or realising we are the boiling frog. We accept and put up with things without realising the damage it causes us.