SMWLA Child-Led Learners, & Friends

About SMWLA Child-Led Learners, & Friends

Welcome to Santa Monica West Los Angeles Child Led Learners! (smwla)

***For the safety & consideration of all our member families THIS PHOTO SHARING GROUP IS INVITATION ONLY. To join, post your invitation request to the Yahoo discussion group linked below.***

We are progressive minded, child led learner/unschoolers or alternative homeschoolers interested in moving towards child led learning. We're a secular group in the Los Angeles area. The common thread is respect towards our children and the uniqueness of every family. We hope to support ourselves in growing towards respectful/gentle parenting, joyful living, non-coercive parenting and deschooling ourselves.

We recognize that learning is an outgrowth of living life. We respect our children and trust they will learn what they want and how they want through living their lives and following their passions. We are here to facilitate, strew new ideas and support them in their interests whether that's taking a class, finding a mentor or hanging out grooving on what's exciting at the moment.

We are a cooperative support group, meaning the more people are involved and come, the more the group will thrive and the more you’ll feel like a part of our growing community.

We're not here to discuss different curriculum we think our kids should be doing or how to make them learn things we think they should learn. There are lots of places to do that. We're here to support each other in trusting that our children will continue to explore and experience their world and that learning will be intrinsically motivated.

There is no one place everyone is expected to be along this journey. If this sounds like you or you're interested in moving in this direction, come on in! We're all moving forward w/ respect at our center. Our intention is to form a warm communty that benefits us all. We meet on Friday at a park in Santa Monica each week.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smwla