Free Choices is an unschooling group in the Northern Nevada Area. This group is about bringing our children together. We strive to provide them with hours of uninterrupted time to pursue activity that is meaningful to them - play. We feel that the kind of close relationships we value are impossible to attain in brief get togethers or in the space between planned activities. We honor and support their choices for play.

In the largest sense, we are a group of parents and children drawn together by our decision to not participate in public schooling. We are founded as an unschooling support group, although we will help people who want to understand unschooling. Understand though, that we will not be spending any time talking about the best way to "make" your child learn a particular lesson or skill. Rather we choose to spend our time discussing what we consider to be the best of real life, that is, the learning that happens (for all of us) when it is meaningful and relevant to a particular individual. None of us will be shocked or dismayed if your child watches television or plays video games- indeed, many of us embrace these technologies as part of a rich life. Television, computers, and video games go hand-in-hand with books, magazines, lectures, films and camping - all to be used and enjoyed

I would like this group to be for families who are attachment parents, respectful parents, honoring their children for who they are. While we are here to help each other with the challenges, the focus of our unschooling lives is remembering to Choose Joy. It's there, in the hearts of our children. With radical unschooling, our children learn and grow joyfully, by being a part of the real world every day.