You can deschool and hit the refresh button at any time! Here’s the GSHE video on deschooling and ideas to recharge your children’s learning.
- Take a day off the academics to pursue something else you enjoy.
- Meet up with friends for an outing at a favorite museum or plan a field trip together.
- Bake cookies or a special meal with the kids.
- Visit your local library to take out a new book or participate in one of their many events.
- Read a book with the kids; they’re never too old for read-alouds.
- Play board games together.
- Build an indoor fort with blankets.
- Organize a nerf battle, hiking excursion, or nature scavenger hunt.
- Sow seeds for your garden – here are easy ones to grow in a cup and more suggestions.
- Visit a game shop, video arcade, climbing wall, or trampoline park.
- Plan a service project to help people in your community — senior centers, food pantries, animal shelters, and other orgs are always looking for assistance.
If you want to expand the opportunity, share an outing your family is planning in our forum community (create a free account to access everything on our website) or make a Facebook event in our main group that has several thousand members as a way to meet people and make new friends!
What are your favorite ways to take a break and restart?
