Comments on: Unschooling Support and where are the mags going? http://theparentingpit.com/2008/08/12/unschooling-support-and-where-are-the-mags-going/ alternative parenting | conscious living | unschooling Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:37:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ren http://theparentingpit.com/2008/08/12/unschooling-support-and-where-are-the-mags-going/#comment-147161 Ren Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:10:46 +0000 http://theparentingpit.com/2008/08/12/unschooling-support-and-where-are-the-mags-going/#comment-147161 I've often wondered if a paper published zine could make it. That would be fun to publish! I am sad to see Connections no longer publishing. It was fun to be a part of that and I really wish it would start back up though Danielle is pretty dang busy with her farm. I remember almost crying when Growing Without Schooling stopped back in the 90's. It was the very first magazine I ever subscribed to and it was a breath of fresh air at the time. Let's do a zine....yes, yes. I’ve often wondered if a paper published zine could make it. That would be fun to publish!
I am sad to see Connections no longer publishing. It was fun to be a part of that and I really wish it would start back up though Danielle is pretty dang busy with her farm.

I remember almost crying when Growing Without Schooling stopped back in the 90’s. It was the very first magazine I ever subscribed to and it was a breath of fresh air at the time.

Let’s do a zine….yes, yes.

]]> By: Sandra Dodd http://theparentingpit.com/2008/08/12/unschooling-support-and-where-are-the-mags-going/#comment-140791 Sandra Dodd Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:16:13 +0000 http://theparentingpit.com/2008/08/12/unschooling-support-and-where-are-the-mags-going/#comment-140791 Yesterday I mentioned to a friend that Home Education Magazine was the only one left, and she said the owners are trying to sell it, and told their staff that they couldn't afford to pay them anymore (not that they were paying much anyway). I hope they held back enough to cover subscription liability! I think you're right that the advertising isn't as lucrative (or even sensible) for natural learning magazines as for fundamentalist Christian homeschooling magazines (which Australia probably doesn't have so much of as the U.S.). Although people write to me and say they wish my site were a book (it would be like an encyclopedia, and too much of it is other people's cool writings of the moment for it to be publishable anyway), the learning people do about unschooling (maybe about everything) is increasingly online. Sites like The Parenting Pit and JoyfullyRejoycing are goldmines for parents, and so subscribing to magazines is sometimes money that could be better spent on doing cool things with the kids. I still was subscribing to Life Learning Magazine when it ceased being. Yesterday I mentioned to a friend that Home Education Magazine was the only one left, and she said the owners are trying to sell it, and told their staff that they couldn’t afford to pay them anymore (not that they were paying much anyway). I hope they held back enough to cover subscription liability!

I think you’re right that the advertising isn’t as lucrative (or even sensible) for natural learning magazines as for fundamentalist Christian homeschooling magazines (which Australia probably doesn’t have so much of as the U.S.).

Although people write to me and say they wish my site were a book (it would be like an encyclopedia, and too much of it is other people’s cool writings of the moment for it to be publishable anyway), the learning people do about unschooling (maybe about everything) is increasingly online. Sites like The Parenting Pit and JoyfullyRejoycing are goldmines for parents, and so subscribing to magazines is sometimes money that could be better spent on doing cool things with the kids. I still was subscribing to Life Learning Magazine when it ceased being.

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