Deschooling is not just the child recovering from school damage. It's also the parents exploring their own school and childhood damage and proactively changing their thinking until the paradigm shift happens.—Robyn Coburn
Encouraging Creativity: Part of an intermittent series of musing on the odd objections people make to home schooling
"Educational": A Label Worth Ignoring
Bullies are No Laughing Matter
Fairy-Crown Robyn
photo by Jakesmome,
September 2006, Albuquerque
The Beautiful Park, hard to describe, and hard to forget
"Expectations can get in the way of seeing what is really happening."
Robyn's answer to "How does a person who has no rules to follow as a child cope to life as an adult in a world filled with rules? "
Talking to Babies (one of several contributors)
Mothering During a Melt-Down, with many suggestions for avoiding melt-down situations, and strategies and tools for restoring calm
On young children and TV: What's the Attraction? What are the Fears?
Response to someone saying unschoolers will not be able to keep jobs
Jayn Coburn at a Barbie Convention
Jayn's Barbie scenarios
and Robyn's descriptions
(Robyn, from the 2005 Live and Learn conference)
My father was Elimar Clemens Buschmann, born in Cologne, Germany around 1917 or 18, one of nine brothers. He spent his working life as a juggler, and tightrope walker, later slackrope walker – juggling on a wire. I had always been told, since my childhood, that he invented the tennis racket trick in the early thirties. . . ." read more and see video!!
Robyn's Blog:
Making, Mothering, Musing (https://robyncoburn.blogspot.com/)
Robyn makes dolls, has a website and an etsy store:
Iggyjingles.etsy.com
Here is a brief but solid podcast interview from March 2022: “Dervish Dust: The Life and Words of James Coburn” Author Robyn L Coburn
