Tag: Unschooling

One family, many businesses: Max Organics, Ben’s Blooms, Duluth Trading Company, and more!

January 26, 2016

Out on the world’s largest freshwater sandbar—the point of demarcation between the greatest lake in the world, Superior, and the enormous St. Louis River estuary—resides one of the most fascinating families you could ever meet. Two boys, one 16 and the other 12, operate tremendously ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses that are inextricably tied to this land … More One family, many businesses: Max Organics, Ben’s Blooms, Duluth Trading Company, and more!

Embracing the Challenge That Comes From Observing a Successful Unschooler

February 13, 2015

Families that choose the unconventional path of unschooling for their children are rarely boring. Typically they are utterly fascinating. After all, boring people rarely have the fortitude to do anything as counter-cultural as this. Ben Hewitt and his family provide a fascinating case study of this movement that I was previously unfamiliar with. I urge … More Embracing the Challenge That Comes From Observing a Successful Unschooler