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Teal McGurk has two children aged two and one. She lives with her family in Northern Ireland and is on a path to being plastic-free. Here she shares her concepts for a nature-based approach to education and toys.

Fiona McBryde is the founder of Soap Folk (soapfolk.com) and lives with partner Rob and two daughters, Matilda and Beatrice, in Amberley, a timeless, Cotswold stone, hilltop village, on the outskirts of Stroud.

Interested in the power of creating a self-directed learning environment for your kids? Meet a family of six who put it into practice every day. Part one in a series of features on self-directed learning.

Clea Danaan is a gardener and teacher living in Colorado, USA. Through her books, blogs and teaching, she’s on a gentle mission to encourage more people to fall in love with the earth. We adore her beautiful little book, Mindful Thoughts for Gardeners, which will inspire you to reconnect with nature, help you live consciously through your planting, and to accept unavoidable gardening pitfalls!

Paola Dyboski-Bryant and her son, Ziggy, 12, have lived in a van in France for two years. Paola runs eco giant bubble company Dr Zigs

All children are different and, as such, they all have different needs. Some children, however, have greater needs than others. Perhaps you suspect that there is something more to your child’s quirks and have ruled out the possibility of an ASD, maybe you’re struggling with doubts over how to handle your child’s intense emotions and behaviours or maybe you’re just wondering about how best to approach raising a child who is very sensitive seeming.

Learn how to tell magical fairy tales, share random acts of kindness, make pinecone birdfeeders, join a nationwide, free festival fun! Plus blissful parenting podcasts and enjoy learning to love your body!

Akilah S. Richards is a writer, speaker and broadcaster; her podcast Fare of the Free Child focuses on Black, Indigenous and People of Colour families who practice unschooling.

Unschooling mother of four, Chaley-Ann Scott, writes about the every day magic of learning through living and answers your most common questions about choosing not to send your kids to school.

One family’s journey to solving the screen time dilemma - how to set clear guidelines, the importance of intention and setting values as a family by Jasmine Rose

Free film screenings, forage and brew magickal pine-needle tea, try old-school guy making and explore Peru's history. Plus climate justice explained for kids, and make the perfect batch of cinder toffee!

Rosie Speno speaks with Dayna Martin, home educator, writer and speaker about family life, attachment parenting and her unschooling journey with her four children in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

The plastic free toy box - three plastic free families share their experiences of keeping learning and play ethical

Meet the French couple who cycle the world with their child

How to empower our children so that they can be self-directed learners.

Annette Gallagher writes on creating moments of calm, inside the moments of chaos in her family's home educating life. How to restore rhythm and balance

For #throwbackthursday we've rediscovered this great article from John Taylor Gatto on why our education system doesn't work. We live in a time of great school crisis. Our school crisis is a reflection of a greater social crisis. We seem to have lost our identity.