When you just want to play with your whistle, but mom won't stop taking pictures of you. 😑😅 Interesting fact about Alberobello. The streets are super slippery as years of people walking on them have worn down the stone. We had to take a detour to get back up the street just so we wouldn't roll backwards 😂 @carryonwithkids @carryonwithmom @carryonwithdad @alberbellocom #carryonwithkids #alberobello #trulli #bellaitalia #iorestoacasa #nodistancetoofar #travelmom #momlife #kidstravel #familytravel #familytravelplanner #worldschooling #travelphotography #stayhome #cutekids (at Alberobello, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2JiBsFU03/?igshid=f8vafslyhgdf
After leaving Lares, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 where we loved visiting with my family, we discovered a magical beach called, "Mar Chiquita" or "Little Sea" on the north central coast of the island, in Manatí. • We discovered it randomly as we were looking for an Airbnb on the beach where we could have our dog, Nala with us, and we found this hidden gem. It has so much of what our family loves: wild ocean, soft sand with amazing sea glass everywhere plus a little protected lagoon for swimming. We love it here! • Tomorrow we return to Florida and on to our next travel adventure but, gratefully not before one more sunrise and some quiet writing time on this amazing beach. • #manatí #puertorico #beachbabies #seaglass #saltydog #waterdog #nalanada #swimmingshepherds #gsd #momof3 #travelingfamily #worldschooling #boricua #isladelencanto #loveit #wildocean #NMCastaways #A2ZTK #rosalindaroman (at Mar Chiquita, Manatí PR) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5tH6EuBtw5/?igshid=oh0ycu66ysry
These parents are embracing a nomadic approach to education, here is why?
Betsy Lee and family in Diani Beach, Kenya. (Credits: Betsy Lee)
– Bharbi Hazarika
In 2015, Betsy Lee bought six one-way tickets to Cabuya, Costa Rica, on a whim. The screen turned blue with a familiar spinning logo that indicated their tickets were being processed. She looked at her husband, Matthew Frye, who was sitting beside her. Their eyes met in the soft glow from the screen in front of them, and before she could sputter out the words “What have we done?” she got an email alert confirming their flight.
“We were very nervous, we couldn’t believe what we were getting ourselves into,” Lee, learning architect at Sweet Rush, a California-based corporate training company, said. “Now, when I look back, all those nerves seem silly.”
Three years have passed, and she hasn’t bought a round trip ticket since. The family has been traveling the world non-stop, hopping from small fishing villages of Costa Rica to settling in hilly pockets of Kenya, months at a time. The couple and their four kids are on an excursion of an enormous scale. Twenty countries, four continents, and tête-à-têtes with countless people have brought them to a single conclusion— settling down is passé.
And passé it is or at least it seems that way as families across the United States and around the world have increasingly started embracing a new notion of living and learning called world schooling.
World schooling is an educational movement that is distinct from “stationary” or traditional education, encouraging parents and children to learn via travel and interaction. Several online groups and blogs with thousands of subscribers have breathed life into a subculture that several still see as a dream.
The main idea behind this movement is experiential learning, that places its bets on student learning while doing a task. For most families, learning is extended to parents, as well.
Betsy Lee and her family in Iten, Kenya. (Credits: Betsy Lee)
World schooling veers away from a fixed standard curriculum, attendance, and confinement of traditional classrooms, rejects even the slightly less limiting daily routine offered in homeschooling; instead, it introduces global experiences to the syllabus. World schooling, if broken down to its essentials, is homeschooling but on steroids. “We are basically using the world as a classroom,” Lee said. “It requires you to look and learn, engage with the community, and, most importantly, be outside.”
Alyson Long, editor at World Travel Family, a resource for those seeking tips on traveling, and her husband, who have been traveling with their two kids for the past five years, believe it offers her kids an entrepreneurial take on education.
“If we weren’t world schooling our kids, they wouldn’t have free time to explore what truly interests them,” Long said. “A childhood taken up by algebra and passing tests leaves little time to follow dreams and passions and start their own entrepreneurial income streams early.”
Another playground!?! Arlon, you've impressed us greatly! And what a stunning spot to stop and spend some time. With lots of tree's, open space and the Eglise Saint Michael in the background it would be a crime to simply walk on by! . . #impressed #traveleurope #travelbelgium #arlon #travelblogger #worldschool #worldschooling #playground #familytravel #travelwithkids #belgium🇧🇪 #belgiumtrip #belgiumtravel #visitbelgium #livelifetothefullest #takeamoment (at Arlon) https://www.instagram.com/3cases2kids1dream/p/BwjqqyNFNzu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dctqm30nokf4
We spent the day at the Byzantine era village of Monemvasia, Laconia. This church was at the top which was a long way up! . . . #monemvasia #village #medieval #byzantine #church #laconia #greece #worldschooling #unschooling #history #travel #travelgram #instatravel #homefree #homefreefamily (at Monemvasía, Greece)
