When I first started homeschooling, I thought I was making a simple choice.
A personal choice.
A parenting choice.
A decision about what would serve my children best.
I thought it was about reading methods and math curriculums, nature walks, and flexible schedules.
And it was.
But it was also so much more than that.
Because every day we choose trust over control...
Every day we protect curiosity instead of crushing it...
Every day we let our children unfold on their own timelines instead of forcing them to fit someone else’s...
We’re doing something much bigger than just schooling at home.
We’re building a different future.
The systems around us were never built for sovereignty.
They were built for conformity.
For obedience.
For efficiency.
The school system was never designed to nurture human souls.
It was designed to produce predictable outputs for an industrial economy.
And when we step away from that system— when we stop measuring success by standardization, compliance, and pace— we are doing revolutionary work.
You might not feel like a revolutionary when you’re cleaning up art supplies for the third time in a day or watching your child dive deep into a passion that seems random to everyone but them.
You might not feel like a world-changer when your homeschool day looks messy and chaotic and wildly nonlinear.
But you are.
Every time you choose trust over fear, you’re planting a seed.
Every time you let your child’s curiosity lead instead of a checklist, you’re tending the soil.
Every time you choose sovereignty over compliance, you’re watering the roots of a different world.
It’s slow work.
Invisible work.
Sacred work.
And it matters more than you know.
I can see it now—the threads weaving forward.
The child who grows up knowing their voice matters.
The teenager who doesn’t ask for permission to create.
The adult who knows how to build something entirely new without needing to replicate the broken systems they were handed.
This is what you’re building, even on the days when it feels like you’re just surviving.
This is the quiet, powerful revolution you’re leading with your life.
Not by standing on stages.
Not by making grand speeches.
But by showing up, day after messy, beautiful day, and trusting that the seeds you're planting matter.
And here’s the part I need you to hear most:
You don’t have to do it perfectly.
You don't have to perform your way to freedom.
You’re allowed to get it messy.
You’re allowed to get it wrong sometimes.
The act of choosing differently—again and again—is enough.
You’re not just homeschooling.
You’re rewriting the future.
You’re showing your children—and yourself—what it means to live sovereign, connected, wildly alive lives.
And that matters.
More than you can see yet.
More than you can measure today.
But it’s happening.
It’s unfolding.
It’s already alive in the way your family breathes together, learns together, trusts together.
You're not behind.
You're not off course.
You’re building something better.
And it's working.
🫶🏽 Leah
At Bridge Academy, we honor this revolution.
We hold space for it.
We build alongside it.
Enrollment for the 2025–2026 school year is open if you're ready to keep building a future rooted in freedom, trust, and real life.
This!!! It’s everything!! I’ve often called our unschooling journey the most revolutionary thing we can be doing to change the future. Thank you for sharing that sentiment and validating my feelings (again and again and again…. :))
There was a time in my life when “revolutionary” action looked like activism, and that holds a much different feeling in the body. It’s much more of a “fighter” energy. That’s how I was raised to “do good” and I’ve had to dismantle a lot of that on this unschooling journey. Because this journey isn’t about fighting. It’s about trusting, loving and creating. There’s such deep & profound healing that I never knew would come out of unschooling. I’m still a work in progress, and always open to shedding light on my blind spots. Thank you for helping me do that 🩷
Thanks for the great post! This is 100% why we decided to homeschool our kids — we were able to give them so much more through experiences rather than having them sit in a classroom for hours on end. And the results were AMAZING. My son who used to spend hours building with kinetic sand now has an entrepreneurial spirit as a teenager and has come up with several great business ideas, a mindset that will serve him well in life. And because of our great experiences with homeschooling, I’m now working on ways to support families with deeper STEM learning through project-based challenges. Thank you for the encouraging words to help more parents succeed!!!