Intensity, repetition, and long stretches of focus are common in unschooling families. Interests may look narrow, obsessive, or unbalanced when viewed through school-based expectations—patterns that can trigger parental fear. Worries about outcomes, careers, balance, and future security shape how adults interpret a child’s focus, sometimes turning support into pressure or ownership.

Cecilie Conrad, Sandra Dodd, and Sue Elvis describe a picture of unschooling where interests are allowed to exist without being justified or managed. Obsessions are treated as part of living rather than signals of success or failure, and parental work centers less on directing paths and more on trust, time, and relationship.

🔗 Sandra, Sue and Cecilie's websites
https://sandradodd.com
https://storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com
https://cecilieconrad.com

🗓️ Recorded September 4, 2025. 📍 Åmarksgård, Lille Skendsved, Denmark

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In season 3 of Ladies Fixing the World, host Cecilie Conrad is joined by longtime unschooling voices Sandra Dodd and Sue Elvis to explore unschooling as a lifestyle.

How does a typical day look in an unschooling family’s life? - This is one of the first questions people ask about unschooling. It often carries an unspoken hope for reassurance, structure, or a picture that makes the choice feel understandable.

Cecilie Conrad, Sandra Dodd, and Sue Elvis approach the question from different lives and contexts, letting it stay open rather than pinning it down. Their perspectives point toward patterns, values, and rhythms instead of schedules.

What emerges is a sense of how unschooling days are shaped less by plans and appearances and more by time, attention, and relationships lived over many changing seasons.

🔗 Links from Sue Elvis to this episode

• The Changing Seasons of the Unschooling Year
• Why Unschoolers Do What They Do
• What Do Unschoolers Do Each Day?
• Typical Unschooling Days

🔗 Sandra, Sue and Cecilie's websites

• https://sandradodd.com
• https://storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com
• https://cecilieconrad.com

🗓️ Recorded September 2, 2025. 📍 Åmarksgård, Lille Skendsved, Denmark

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In season 3 of Ladies Fixing the World, host Cecilie Conrad is joined by longtime unschooling voices Sandra Dodd and Sue Elvis to explore unschooling as a lifestyle.

Language keeps showing up in unschooling conversations: Parents ask about reading, writing, spelling, confidence, exposure, and whether children will “miss something” without lessons or requirements.

Language can become the place where worries about competence, comparison, and readiness collect, especially for parents who did not enjoy language themselves.

Underlying the whole conversation is a familiar unschooling question: What happens when language is learned through living, culture, play, and shared meaning instead of study and control?

🔗 Sandra, Sue and Cecilie's websites

• https://sandradodd.com
• https://storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com
• https://cecilieconrad.com

🗓️ Recorded August 26, 2025. 📍 Åmarksgård, Lille Skendsved, Denmark

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In season 3 of Ladies Fixing the World, host Cecilie Conrad is joined by longtime unschooling voices Sandra Dodd and Sue Elvis to explore unschooling as a lifestyle.