A Place To Be

Community Is an Internal Job
Community represents connection, love, and belonging, the primal human needs that everybody has. If somebody is looking for community, what they're really looking for is love, connection, and belonging. And that cannot come from outside. You cannot find it in community. Once you have found it inside of yourself, then you will create community naturally and organically.
What does community even mean?
There are people who know exactly what they want. They say, I want community. I want the community to be spiritual. I want the spiritual people to have deep, meaningful conversations. And they think that that's what's going to make them happy. But it won't.
And what does community even mean, or to be spiritual? What does meaningful mean? They are very individual things that keep changing, like everything in life. What happens when you're within your community for hours and then the day ends? Everybody goes home, some alone. Community doesn't exist 100% of the time.
Being spiritual. The ultimate spiritual state is death, being a spirit. If you're alive on earth, then that means you feel. There is physical, emotional and psychological pain that many people don't want to experience. They want to avoid it, so they numb themselves, and community is one of the ways.
The quick fix
If you feel lonely and you feel you need a community, the community will not fix your loneliness and your neediness. Let's say you get it with people, you feel connected, safe and loved, you have a good time. And then you go home and the community is gone. You're all alone on your bed overnight.
If you recognise this, that you get a kind of high from being with people and afterwards you feel lonely, then you can see it's just like a drug that gives you a quick fix. And it doesn't matter whether the drug is community, some herbal medicine, or yoga to feel more connected spiritually. It's the same thing.
And all of us have our drugs. Some are more harmful than others, some are more obvious than others. It isn't only the cigarettes, alcohol, sex or social media. It's also distracting ourselves with the things we would call a hobby, reading a book, learning, working. It's even the things that look like we're taking good care of ourselves. If you go for that exercise driven by a need to feel better, connected, to be happier, then that's a quick fix too.
So in that moment, instead of reaching for the exercise, the book, the work, look and feel within, and where that need for love, connection and belonging is coming from.
Start where you are
If the need for community is coming from an unmet need, the first thing to do is look within and heal your wounds. Then you will be able to connect to others easily. You first have to be okay with your own company, completely alone with yourself, and still feel loved, connected and like you belong. Then you'll feel the same for your family, the people who are around you every day. And then other people in your neighborhood, or in the different little communities that you join now and again.
Where it actually comes from
When we seek community, it's because of unmet needs from early childhood. Trying and forcing to build community will never give you that sense of love, connection, and belonging.
The inner child must be listened and tended to, because whatever you feel now has nothing to do with what's happening here in front of you, but everything to do with how you felt as a little child: a disconnect from your parents, unloved, lonely and unsafe. And it doesn't matter what caused it. It doesn't have to be anything dramatic. A child doesn't need a reason we would consider good enough.
The inner child
When you feel that physical, emotional, or psychological discomfort, it’s when you have the opportunity, and there are countless opportunities every single day, to meet what your inner child didn't receive.
Here is what I do, and what I have been doing for many months now. The moment you feel a trigger, imagine hugging your inner child and say, either in your mind or out loud, everything is well, and you are safe. That's it. That's the whole thing.
And it isn't only the difficult emotions. If you catch yourself feeling a high, an unnatural high, where something outside of you suddenly makes you really happy, that's a trigger too. It's the same move. Hug the inner child, everything is well, and you are safe.
I would keep this one phrase and use it every single time. It's hard enough to become aware of the trigger in the moment, and to do that step of imagining the hug instead of just going with the emotion, screaming at somebody, getting angry, crying, whatever you feel like doing. You don't want to also be deciding whether this phrase is better than that phrase. Keep it simple. One phrase, every time.
The amazing thing is you don't need to practise it. It works in the moment. I've noticed it most clearly with my daughters, Lima and Bo. There have been times when they were sad or angry or in distress, and I simply said, everything is fine, and you are safe. And I could feel their energy lowering, their nervous system relaxing, right there. It gives them the safety they need in that moment to relax and be present, and not get caught up in their mind and in the emotion. It's the same for your own inner child.
Sometimes you'll have a bigger trigger, sometimes a smaller one, and it works better in some moments than others. Sometimes the shift is very subtle and I don't even know if it did anything. But I notice I don't keep hanging onto the emotion, and the trigger just disappears. Even the first time you try it, it might make a huge difference.
Hug your inner child. Or hug an actual person. You can ask your husband, your wife, your child, I need a hug. Or just hug them without saying anything at all.
Do this, and then you can be fine being alone and with any emotion, and the rest will follow.
The trouble with likeminded people
Community, spirituality, meaningfulness, Bitcoin, unschooling, vegan, vegetarian, carnivore. These are words. They are labels. Each one comes with a long invisible list of how a person carrying that label is supposed to be and behave. And none of us are any of them 100% of the time.
Yet we try to fit the list, and we go looking for our fellow likeminded people by representing the term. What it actually does is the opposite. Anybody who is not that label is immediately different, separate from who we are.
Of course language makes it easier to communicate. But the moment a word stops describing what you do and starts describing who you are, it decides in advance who you're allowed to belong with. So I've stopped labelling us, and just describe what we do or don't do. We're into Bitcoin, rather than we're Bitcoiners. We don't send our kids to school, rather than we're unschoolers.
It's already happening
Because community isn't about a certain number of people confined to one group. When people come together, it doesn't matter the amount, two people, three, ten, fifty. Everybody knows other people outside 'their' community and belongs to different groups from time to time. I am part of the jiu-jitsu, the yoga, the unschooling, the Bitcoin community, and many others. Nothing exists 100%. You cannot always have community.
Yesterday is a perfect example. In the morning I went to yoga class and there were Thalia, John, and Christine, and that was my community in that moment. Later I met my friend's children at the beach with my two girls, that was my community then. In the evening their parents came and extended the community by two more people, and we had a lovely time laughing and just connecting non-stop. When we came home my husband was there, and that was our community even overnight. We all sleep together with our dog, all on the same floor in the same room.
Every moment brings you a different type of community with different people. And whether you're able to connect with them only depends on whether you are connected to yourself.
And the great thing about this is that when we live side by side like we will at A Place To Be, it stops being something you have to arrange. No driving somewhere to feel connected. It's the kids running between houses, the shared meals that nobody planned, somebody noticing you're having a hard day and just sitting down next to you, your neighbour helping with the laundry.
There's only one thing people need to have in common for that to work, and it isn't unschooling, or Bitcoin, or being spiritual. It's a live-and-let-live mindset. Nobody expecting anybody else to be vegan, or carnivore, or a hundred percent anything. Everyone free to live their own life without having to change to fit in or be liked.
That's what we're building at A Place To Be. Not an event you attend. A life you live
www.aplacetobe.me

2026-06-21 08:29:46 UTC

We’ve been in Croatia for the past 6 weeks exploring our first Citadel.Garden village and other parts of Istria (A Place To Be will be the second village built - by the way, this week we submitted the design and are waiting for building permission now 😃🙌🏼).
We also started orange pilling and tipped in sats. Maybe next time they’ll accept our bitcoin payment 😇 @npub1de8…0ezd
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2026-03-08 16:57:51 UTC

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Thanks! I’ll check it out

2026-03-05 17:27:51 UTC

If You Want Your Kids to Learn at the Highest Level - Take Them Out of School ASAP!
https://blossom.primal.net/db9dcbacbfd054b7d92e9b8de954cd7ce92589017b66320ae8fe08033cde30d4.mov

2026-01-21 15:25:02 UTC

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My favorites are Free to learn by Peter Gray, Don’t tell me I can’t by Cole Summers (written by a 13yo homeschooled boy) and anything from John Holt

2026-01-19 12:58:01 UTC

Let’s be sovereign - together!
Building communities beyond the system and how live-and-let-live spaces make opting out easy! 😇😎
This is the topic of my talk that I’ll be giving on Wednesday 28th of January on the @freemadeira Bitcoin meetup 🤓🫶🏼

2025-12-28 12:01:31 UTC

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Our kids have never been in any institution, we unschooling and have a nice community here in Madeira. Also, we’re building an unschooling neighborhood for families who want to live outside the system … www.aplacetobe.me

2025-12-18 14:50:49 UTC

Ed Campbell wrote this piece on the @nprofile…cllv conference:
https://dispatch-media.com/the-bitcoin-ultras-vs-broken-britain/?action=subscribe&success=true

2025-12-15 15:18:06 UTC

Short Christmas reminder:
Kids need your presence, not your presents.
Fiat rewards distraction.
Low time preference + unschooling builds sovereign humans 😎🥰🫶🏼

2025-11-22 17:44:46 UTC

Huge shoutout to @nprofile…fvl9 for a brilliant @nprofile…s53t talk today.
Tomorrow: a live demo/workshop on detecting your glitchy mental code and switching into admin mode — the gateway to a decentralized mind: real freedom.
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2025-11-20 22:08:20 UTC

After 10 days at an unschooling meetup in Algarve we’ve arrived in Manchester today, ready for the @nprofile…usuh ❤️
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2025-11-09 10:28:34 UTC

I’ll be part of the education panel at the @nprofile…0g82 @nprofile…wjjw and am looking forward to seeing lots of Bitcoin friends and connect to more awesome like-minded people 😇😎
Come and talk to me if you’d like to know more about unschooling, A Place To Be, Citadel.Garden and Madeira life! 🫶🏼

2025-11-09 10:23:22 UTC

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Yes, it is, or at least an education is compulsory. But I don’t let the system stand above my own values and decision making, especially when it comes to my children.

2025-11-09 10:21:16 UTC

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That’s the spirit! 😎😇🥰

2025-11-08 20:44:21 UTC

Did you know that 4-year-olds are some of the most skilled critical thinkers on Earth?
They ask 100–300 questions every single day.
That is curiosity unsuppressed.
That is the mind working exactly as nature intended.
So how do we protect this superpower?
Simple:
Don’t put them into the system.
No kindergarten or school teacher has the time, space, or freedom to honor thousands of questions from one child, let alone dozens.
Want to amplify this ability even further?
Surround your family with freedom-minded, system-questioning people.
Bitcoiners. Unschoolers. People who think for themselves.
Because who answers your child’s questions shapes how they learn to think.
Curiosity is natural.
Losing it is taught.
At A Place To Be, raising a fiat-proof, deeply confident, question-asking child isn’t something you have to fight for —
it happens naturally when the environment protects their spark.
Be around people who value questions.
And watch your child’s mind stay free.
Www.aplacetobe.me

2025-10-28 14:41:59 UTC

Do Kids Really Need Structure and Discipline?
Written By Sylvia BP
“Kids need structure and discipline!”
That’s what most people say.
But do they?
Or does the adult saying this need structure and discipline?
Or maybe… they just believe they do — because that’s what they were told as children:
“You need structure and discipline!”
“Go to school!”
“Do this!”
“Do that!”
“Finish it!”
“Stop now!”
They never stopped to question it. They simply repeated what their parents, teachers, and grandparents — all shaped by the same system — told them.
Yes, sometimes structure and discipline serve us.
But aren’t we — each individual, including each child — the ones who should decide when, how, and to what extent?
Because there’s another kind of discipline — the one that emerges naturally when we’re absorbed in something that fascinates us.
When a child builds for hours, paints, explores, tinkers, or reads out of pure curiosity — no one needs to impose time frames or tell them to “stay focused.”
Focus and flow arise organically.
So maybe the real question isn’t whether children need structure, but whether adults are afraid of what happens without it.
Isn’t it more true that rigid structure and imposed order often become the death of creativity?
Creation is born in chaos.
And chaos isn’t the opposite of order — it’s part of the same cycle.
When you cook, for example, you create. You make a mess. You splash, stir, taste, spill. The kitchen becomes wild with life.
Then you enjoy the meal — and only after, you restore order again: you wash the dishes, wipe the table, put everything back in its place.
It’s a dance between chaos and order — between freedom and form.
And that’s how learning and life really flow, when they’re not forced into someone else’s schedule.
Rather than giving kids a rigid structure for their time —
6:15 am wake up, wash, get dressed
6:45 am breakfast
7:00 am brush teeth
7:30 am shoes, jacket, school
8:00–5:00 pm school’s structure
5:00 pm homework
6:00 pm dinner
7:00 pm screen time
8:00 pm bed
— they can find their own structure through play, curiosity, and meaningful daily life.
Children don’t need a timetable to grow; they need space to explore.
They find rhythm in free play, in projects that light them up, in the gentle flow between shared meals, time outdoors, or weekly gatherings.
They learn naturally from the living examples around them — watching their parents cook, fix things, tend the garden, have conversations, rest, create, or care for others.
And even more so, when they’re invited in — to help bake the bread, fold the laundry, feed the animals, or join in a parent’s passion — learning becomes real, embodied, and connected to life itself.
Children grow through participation, not instruction.
Through observation, not obligation.
Through meaning, not management.
When we trust their natural rhythms, we discover that structure isn’t something to be imposed — it’s something that emerges.
A living rhythm that breathes with the family, with the seasons, with the energy of the day.
That’s when discipline transforms from a rule to follow into a love for what they’re doing.
And life itself becomes the teacher.
Let’s Reflect
When we loosen our grip on control, we make room for connection.
When we stop managing every hour, we begin to see our children — and ourselves — as whole beings in motion, finding balance naturally between chaos and calm.
Maybe the real lesson isn’t about teaching kids discipline at all,
but about remembering how to trust life’s own rhythm —
and allowing it to guide us, too.
Blog post published here:
https://www.aplacetobe.me/blog/do-kids-really-need-structure-and-discipline

2025-10-23 18:41:06 UTC

Learning in my school years felt awful — pressured, disconnected, and heavy.
In my 20s, learning came through brutal life lessons that stripped away illusions and built resilience.
In my 30s, the inner work I had started in my mid-20s finally began to bear fruit — I learned more about myself, unlearned old patterns, and realized that growth often comes with pain. I also discovered that learning by doing is truly my way of learning.
Now, in my 40s, learning feels different — lighter, more natural, exciting, loving, and in flow. It’s no longer about proving or surviving, but about expanding, creating, and remembering who I truly am.
And this is why I choose to unschool my daughters — to spare them those brutal cycles of learning and unlearning, and to let them experience from the very beginning that learning and life can be joyful, connected, and free.
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2025-10-23 17:59:44 UTC

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Yeah true, that’s also a good way of putting it 😄

2025-10-19 18:09:24 UTC

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Thanks Niek! It was great having you on my webinar 😎🫶🏼

2025-10-18 14:14:34 UTC

In this webinar recording, I share how unschooling unfolds in our daily life — flowing with natural rhythms, trusting curiosity, and raising children in freedom.
We explore parenting from the heart, balancing freedom and guidance, screen time and outdoor play, and the inner work that helps us grow alongside our children.
Watch here 👉 https://www.aplacetobe.me/unschooling-webinar
Questions? Email info@aplacetobe.me
— I’ll answer them in video replies under the webinar.
This is free for everybody to enjoy. If you find it valuable, I appreciate value in return in the form of sats. Cheers

2025-10-18 10:43:50 UTC

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What social life?
Sitting in a room with same aged children who you’re not allowed to talk to during the class or cooperate with?
5 min talking in the hallway with your best friends or being bullied or witnessing bullying creating more fear of being ‘different’ that will stick in your adult life so you walk around trying to fit in, be liked, look and have what the other ‘cool’ people have?
All adults are authority figures you either hate, fear or want to please…
I don’t want my children to have that kind of social life. My children are with people of all ages every single day, talking to people in shops, the street, parks etc.
They play and argue every day learning to resolve problems with each other and adults treat them respectfully.
We travel and get to know other cultures where they learn social skills.
I’d like to quote a father who once replied to your question saying: ‘I don’t want my children to socialize with these fucking idiots’
Do you want your kids to be surrounded by ‘fiat-minded’ people and learn their way or be around freedom-minded people?
We also don’t need to be with 30-1000 people every day. Especially for introverts this is not just exhausting but torturous.
Being able to be alone is a skill most have forgotten. They need people, distraction and have addictions of all sorts to not feel alone.

2025-10-17 12:55:56 UTC

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Sounds great! For this to happen there just need to be enough people creating these centers and naturally more and more people will leave the old system and join the new. The old will crumble brick(person) by brick(person).

2025-10-15 09:29:14 UTC

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Thanks Linah 🥰😘

2025-10-14 19:25:49 UTC

Debunking School’s “Educational Necessity”
Schools were never designed to raise free, fulfilled, and curious human beings.
They were created during the industrial era to produce obedient workers and compliant consumers — people who could follow orders, meet deadlines, and fit neatly into a system.
Yet somehow, over time, we’ve been made to believe:
“We need school to get a proper education and do well in life.”
Let’s debunk that myth.
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1. Everything they teach in school can be learned outside of it — but the things that truly matter can only be learned outside of it.
You can learn math, reading, science, and languages through real life, curiosity, and purpose.
But school often prevents you from learning emotional intelligence, self-trust, decision-making, creativity, independence, and how to live in alignment with your values — the very skills needed for a meaningful life.
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2. Most of what we “learn” at school isn’t learned at all — it’s memorized for a test and then forgotten.
The information that sticks is what we actually use, need, or love — which means we would have learned it naturally anyway. Real learning follows interest, not instruction.
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3. The time spent memorizing what you soon forget could have been used to master something you’re truly passionate about.
Instead of years of forced learning, imagine years of self-directed exploration — building, creating, experimenting, and following curiosity wherever it leads.
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4. True learning and deep understanding only come through experience.
Not by being told what’s true, but by discovering it yourself — through trying, observing, failing, adjusting, and trying again.
Schools teach about life. Real life teaches through life.
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5. “Doing well in life” has never depended on schooling.
The world’s most creative, fulfilled, and successful people didn’t thrive because of school — they thrived in spite of it. They followed their curiosity, not a curriculum.
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6. The system confuses conformity with education.
Grades, tests, and authority approval have replaced real growth. Children learn to perform instead of think, to obey instead of question, and to seek validation instead of self-trust.
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7. The belief that we “need school” keeps the system alive.
When we realize that learning is as natural as breathing, the illusion falls apart.
Children don’t need schools — they need time, freedom, and trust to learn from the world itself.
That’s what we offer at A Place To Be! If you’re ready to take your kids out of school to let them start living their life, visit www.aplacetobe.me

2025-10-13 14:38:15 UTC

How to Transition to Unschooling
You’ve started questioning things — the pressure, the schedules, the testing, the way your child’s natural curiosity seemed to fade somewhere between homework and report cards.
And now you’re here, wondering what life could look like without all that.
Maybe you’ve already decided to take the leap into unschooling, or maybe you’re still standing on the edge, trying to see what’s on the other side. Either way, you’re ready to reclaim learning — for your child and for yourself.
It’s a beautiful step, but also a big one. Because unschooling isn’t just a change in education — it’s a change in mindset. It asks you to slow down, to trust, and to let go of so many of the beliefs that were built into us through our own schooling.
The good news? You don’t need to have it all figured out.
There’s no perfect system to replace the old one — and that’s kind of the point.
What you do need is presence, patience, and a willingness to rediscover what learning really is: living, exploring, trying, failing, and growing together.
So let’s take it step by step.
Here’s what really helps when you begin your transition to unschooling.
READ MY FULL POST WITH 7 STEPS TO TRANSITION TO UNSCHOOLING:
https://www.aplacetobe.me/blog/how-do-i-transition-to-unschooling
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2025-10-13 08:57:14 UTC

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And thank you for your zap and sharing my post 😊🫶🏼

2025-10-13 08:56:46 UTC

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I think this is the case in most countries. We’re the minority wherever we are and most people believe school is necessary and the one and only way but just this week I had a chat with our local butcher and his assistant. While paying the butcher his assistant asked me ‘where are your daughter? In school?’ (Because the usually accompany me)
I said: No, they don’t go to school.
We had a 10min conversation in which I explained many reasons why schools are a bad choice when it comes to learning. They simply couldn’t argue against what I had to say. They kept agreeing with me and in the end the assistant even said: schools are like jails.
I had the same experience with many people here in Madeira and Germany.

2025-10-10 15:00:31 UTC

Free Webinar: “What It’s Really Like to Unschool”
Curious about what unschooling actually looks like in real life?
Join me on Saturday, 18 October at 10am (UTC+1) for a live, open conversation about the reality of unschooling — the challenges, the beauty, and everything in between. Plenty of time for Q’s & A’s …
I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned on my own unschooling journey — the mindset shifts, the moments of doubt, and the incredible freedom that comes when you trust your children (and yourself) enough to let go of control.
It’s a simple but transformative approach that allows kids to flourish, discover who they really are, and learn with genuine joy.
💫 It’s 100% free — no sign-up, no email, no catch. Just show up and listen in.
🎥 The session will be recorded and shared on my website afterward, so if you’d like to stay anonymous, simply turn off your camera or change your display name.
I suggest you copy and paste the link into your calendar with a reminder:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82270182944
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2025-10-08 16:36:23 UTC

Just gave a 60-min online workshop — “What It’s Really Like to Unschool” — for the Live Wild, Birth Free community, and it went beautifully.
The heart of unschooling isn’t about academics because learning is a natural bi-product of life — it’s about the inner deconditioning every parent must go through to truly free themselves and their kids.
To unlearn what was programmed into us in childhood, reinforced through schooling, and upheld by the fiat-minded world around us.
Life in freedom and sovereignty begins when we dare to question everything we see, hear, and — most importantly — think, because whether you like it or not, fiat is a part of your mental programming.
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2025-10-06 08:36:13 UTC

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Definitely worth it

2025-10-05 14:23:36 UTC

What makes unschooling challenging?
Unschooling isn’t hard because you’re not a professional teacher, you lack resources, intelligence or knowledge. It’s hard because of our conditioning.
Letting go of control, fear, and the belief that we or our children are “failing” if we don’t do it all
The real unschooling journey is internal

2025-10-03 19:33:15 UTC

How to Fiat-Proof Your Kids
- Don’t send them to school.
- Teach them to spot manipulation.
- Limit the consumption of all fiat products (including food, music, movies etc) and explain why.
- Live your sovereignty — they’ll copy it.
- Value truth over comfort.
- Let them take real risks.
- Keep money real (BTC)
- Encourage them to question you, too.
- Build community outside the system.
Raise kids who can’t be bribed, threatened, or controlled.
Get the full roadmap in my free 4-module UnParenting course: https://www.aplacetobe.me/unprenting-course

2025-10-02 19:05:21 UTC

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Yes, your lifestyle does sound very much like ours! Nice to hear there are more freedom-families out there 😇
Looking forward to hear what your son creates with his new skill 😀😎

2025-09-24 14:44:20 UTC

We’re an Unschooling Neighborhood for Families Who Fiat-Proof Their Kids
Schools teach fiat thinking.
We do something different.
Unschooling is decentralized education — and that's what we live and breathe.
This is what happens when you're surrounded by families on the same path:
No explanations. No judgment.
Just kids learning naturally.
And parents building a better future — together.
Join us at A Place To Be — Madeira
A freedom-first, family-centered community aligned with nature, sovereignty, and Bitcoin values.
What We'll Offer:
- Simple, intentional living close to nature
- Shared co-working space
- Gym and outdoor exercise area
- Community pool and spa area
- Bonfire circle & BBQ areas
- Specialized learning + creative spaces for young and old:
• Research library & computer room
• Science lab
• AI & robotics studio
• Coding hub
• Creative workshop (woodworking, sewing, painting, crafting)
• Music space
• Community kitchen
• Farm animals (cats, dogs, chickens, goats,cows, horses, ponies, donkeys)
• Fruit & vegetable garden and greenhouses, beehives
- Group trips, family-friendly events, workshops, and retreats
- And so much more
Where Our Project’s At
At Bitcoin Atlantis 2024, we met Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian economist and the founder of Citadel Garden — a trustless digital land network giving sovereign families a secure way to co-own land and build decentralized communities.
He offered us a homebase.
We said yes.
A Place To Be is now part of the Citadel Garden ecosystem — a growing network of freedom-aligned locations.
We finished the topography of 90.000m2 and will soon survey another 200.000m2, the areas that we're allowed to build on, are currently editing the design of the village and plan to submit plans to the municipality mid October 2025.
Our plot of land is over 500.000m2 big and stunningly beautiful!
You HAVE to come and see it...
While we wait for permits, we open the space in its raw form — offering:
bom fire
tent and gathering spots
big trampoline
wood and tools to build and mess around
a place to co-create and connect as we grow
To be up-to-date with our progress visit https://www.aplacetobe.me/updates
We’re building something that matters and accept Bitcoin
Contributions. Thanks for being a part of it.
With love,
Sylvia & The APTB Team
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2025-09-21 07:42:39 UTC

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Don’t listen to mainstream, listen to your heart and instincts when it comes to children. Read The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedlof and enjoy your baby 🥰

2025-09-20 15:01:25 UTC

Wu wei parenting — doing without doing.
Trusting our kids, stepping back, and letting them grow through their own choices.
This is the heart of our unschooling project A Place To Be in Madeira — a community and soon to be neighborhood for families who want to raise children in freedom, nature, and connection.
Curious? Learn more or reach out here: www.aPlaceToBe.me
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2025-09-20 09:30:25 UTC

Live free, stick to nature, be with your loved ones.
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2025-09-19 20:29:24 UTC

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What exactly was the problem with that?

2025-09-19 19:50:45 UTC

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My husband has his online business while I’m a full-time mom. Bitcoin also gives us the freedom to not have to work that much. There are many options and ways - where there’s a will, there’s a way 😇🫶🏼

2025-09-18 19:07:13 UTC

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Now that’s what I call a compliment 😎😇🙌🏼🫶🏼
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2025-09-18 17:20:49 UTC

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Thanks Paul 😊🙌🏼🫶🏼

2025-09-18 12:17:33 UTC

Dear friends,
I’m so proud (and seriously excited) to share something very close to my heart: my husband @nprofile…dqhc has just published his book, Glitch - The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How To Debug It) .
I believe this is the book the world so desperately needs. It’s written for every single one of us who has been born and raised within this society — caught up in its patterns, pressures, and noise.
And if you’re a parent, Glitch will speak to you on an even deeper level. Because doing our own inner work is the number one thing that allows us to:
* be truly present with our children
* give them real freedom
* act with love instead of fear
* create peace and connection in our homes
* and ultimately, live the life we dream of alongside them
At home and at @nprofile…3yqc, Rob and I live this every single day. We’re constantly learning, unlearning, and finding new ways to bring more calm, joy, and authenticity into our relationships.
What I love about Glitch is that it isn’t theory. It’s Rob’s own self-taught, self-discovered path — a way to untangle the conditioning we’ve all grown up with and find a peace of mind that changes everything:
how we parent, how we love, how we live.
I’m so excited to finally share this with you!
 👉 You can take a look at the book here: www.glitchthebook.co
Love
Sylvia 😊🫶🏼
PS: Share the love
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2025-09-17 18:38:29 UTC

Why are my kids not in school?
Because they don’t have time for it… here’s why:
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2025-09-16 16:47:59 UTC

Us at work – it’s not always easy being an unschooling parent and not everybody can do it…
…but somebody’s gotta lie on the beach, drink in the sunshine, and make sure the kids are having the time of their lives 😎🌴📚
Jokes aside…
It means blending family, life, and learning into one flow. Sometimes it looks like sunshine and sand, sometimes like deep conversations or tears (like before leaving to come to the beach)
The responsibility is full-time and the rewards are long-term. It’s not always the easy path, but it’s the path that keeps us close, free, and true to ourselves. 🌊☀️
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2025-09-12 13:41:21 UTC

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Great team work 😄🙌🏼

2025-09-11 17:54:41 UTC

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That’s so awesome! 😄🙌🏼🫶🏼

2025-09-08 08:26:19 UTC

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You’re absolutely welcome here 😊🫶🏼

2025-09-08 07:57:45 UTC

Preparing my questions for the forest and nature conservation institute in Madeira to find out how to get horses, ponies, donkeys, cows and goats onto our land 😊🙌🏼🫶🏼
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2025-09-08 06:21:42 UTC

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Thanks for getting the word out… as with so many other things in our fiat society, people have forgotten to trust nature and their bodies and follow ‘expert’ advice instead…
I’ve been breastfeeding for almost 9 years now, my youngest who is 5 and a half is slowly stopping (gently weaning me 😅) 🫶🏼

2025-09-05 18:18:12 UTC

Today I walked our land with 3 families who are ready to become shareholders in our project.
They dream of a neighborhood where their children can grow up in freedom—running, exploring, learning, and playing without limits.
This vision is becoming real: families raising kids outside the system, close to nature, connected to each other.
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2025-09-03 08:39:01 UTC

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WE did it 😉

2025-08-31 09:41:24 UTC

Letter to School Kid Parent
Dear school kid parent,
I know you want the best for your child. I know you love them more than anything in this world. That’s why I am writing to you — not with judgment, but from a place deep in my heart, with love, understanding, and a longing for truth.
I hope you will read this with openness and pause for a moment, because what I am about to share is not often spoken out loud, though many of us feel it in our bones:
School changes your child.
Before you send them away from your loving arms and the warmth of home, their unique character shines, their innocence is intact, their sense of wonder is alive, their curiosity knows no limits. They look at you with trust, with a bond that is natural and unshakable. They want to be with you, learn with you, laugh with you, and grow in your presence. This is what makes them whole.
But school reshapes this.
It teaches them to sit still when their body longs to move.
It teaches them to raise their hand for permission to speak, when their voice deserves to be heard freely.
It teaches them to compete, compare, and measure their worth against others, when in truth their worth is immeasurable.
It teaches them to obey strangers over listening to their own heart and their own family.
It teaches them that learning is a chore, a duty, something done for grades and approval, instead of the joyful, self-driven exploration it naturally is.
Slowly, the spark in their eyes dims. Slowly, they begin to believe that fitting in matters more than being true to themselves. Slowly, they forget that they were once explorers, creators, dreamers.
I know this is painful to hear, but it is the truth many of us have witnessed.
And yet, there is another way.
Children don’t need to be molded — they need to be unfolded. They don’t need to be taught what to think, they need the freedom to think. They don’t need to be standardized; they need to be cherished in their uniqueness.
When a child grows up surrounded by love, family, and a community of caring people, something extraordinary happens. Learning flows naturally — through projects, play, passions, and peers. They learn not because they are forced to, but because life itself is fascinating. They learn responsibility by being included in real life. They learn compassion by being treated with compassion. They learn creativity not by filling out worksheets, but by living in a world that values their ideas and imagination.
And this isn’t just about childhood joy — it’s about preparing them for the future.
We live in times of enormous change. Artificial Intelligence and automation are already replacing traditional jobs. The skills that once mattered most in the school system — memorization, repetition, standardized answers — are now the very skills machines can do better than humans.
The future belongs to those who can do what machines cannot:
- to imagine,
- to empathize,
- to create,
- to collaborate,
- to question,
- to dream.
And those are the very qualities that schools suppress but that natural, free, family-centered learning nurtures.
Your child doesn’t need to be trained for a shrinking job market. They need to be empowered for life — for creating, innovating, building communities, solving problems, loving deeply, and living fully.
And here is something else that is often overlooked: when children grow up whole and unbroken, they don’t just bring joy to their own lives, but to the entire world. A child who learns in freedom becomes an adult who lives in freedom. A child who grows in love brings more love into humanity. A child who is trusted becomes trustworthy.
Dear parent, I know this is not the path most people take. I know it feels safer to do what everyone else does, to send your child to school and hope it will all turn out fine. But the truth is: we cannot outsource childhood. We cannot outsource love. We cannot outsource the one thing our children need most — our presence.
Your child’s time is precious. Their wonder, their laughter, their ideas, their hugs — these years are fleeting, and they will not return. Do not let a system that was never designed for human flourishing steal them away.
You are enough. Your family is enough. Your love is enough. And in choosing to honor childhood, you are not only giving your child the best chance in life — you are also giving the world a gift it so desperately needs: a whole, joyful, capable human being.
www.aPlaceToBe.me
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2025-08-25 19:00:21 UTC

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That’s a great choice! 😊🙌🏼🫶🏼

2025-08-25 12:37:29 UTC

Lately, I’ve been posting a lot on Nostr about the paradox of being a Bitcoiner while still sending kids to school.
What I see so clearly is that Bitcoin and unschooling are two sides of the same freedom movement. Bitcoin is about taking back sovereignty over our money. Unschooling is about taking back sovereignty over our children’s learning. Both are about trust, responsibility, and refusing to outsource our freedom to systems that were never built for us.
As we’ve been unschooling Bitcoiners for about 8 years I feel called to be a bridge between these worlds—helping Bitcoin families see that their values naturally lead to unschooling, and showing unschoolers why Bitcoin is an essential piece of living free.
Reach out if you’re on a similar journey and have any questions regarding unschooling 🫶🏼
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2025-08-22 20:49:00 UTC

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Yes, it’s unreal 😄🙌🏼

2025-08-20 20:38:29 UTC

We bought the land today!
530.000 m² of wonderful nature on the best island in the world! 🌿🏝️✨
There is truly no better place than A Place To Be 🥰🫶🏼😇🙌🏼
This is just the beginning of building a sovereign, unschooling neighborhood where families can connect with nature, freedom, and each other. 🌱👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
👉 Follow along as we bring this vision to life — and if you feel called to be part of it, subscribe and book a call with us. Your future home might already be waiting for you here. 💫
www.aPlaceToBe.me
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2025-08-18 18:39:39 UTC

If Bitcoin fixes money, Unschooling fixes education.
Running a node gives you sovereignty over money. Unschooling gives kids sovereignty over their lives.
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2025-08-17 13:08:28 UTC

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Congratulations to the whole family 😇🫶🏼

2025-08-17 13:06:00 UTC

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Where there’s a will there’s a way

2025-08-17 09:01:48 UTC

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@npub1zde…qt4a thanks for reposting and the sats 🥰🙏🏽

2025-08-17 08:54:50 UTC

Bitcoin = decentralized money
Unschooling = decentralized education
Sending kids to school?
👉 Still plugged into the system.
👉 Outsourcing parenting.
👉 Limiting their freedom.
👉 Teaching fiat thinking.
Ask why.
Unschooling is easy and fun when you have a community:
https://blossom.primal.net/5b7d99ee38c0d0d55e65970b9e83442e6fa80a520a6bdda1b9b2692fe2eeeab7.mov

2025-08-17 08:48:24 UTC

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Hey! As we don’t give legal advice or offer any type of school each family who joins decides how to handle the laws… whether they want to stick to their rules, bend or ignore them completely is up to each family 😉 we simply live and let live 😎😇🫶🏼

2025-06-28 14:19:34 UTC

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Great meme! So true 😎🤟🏼🫶🏼 sending kids to school is just another shitcoin

2025-06-23 16:59:57 UTC

My video didn’t upload earlier when I was on the land, when I posted:
Building our #unschooling neighborhood in #Madeira … 😉🫶🏼
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2025-06-23 12:01:20 UTC

In the process of building our #unschooling neighborhood in #Madeira and I’m #learningbydoing #lfg 😎🤟🏼🩷

2025-05-24 15:14:09 UTC

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My 8 year old daughter and her 9 year old friend started their dog walking business recently and today they had their first paid gig - what a fun first job for these two #unschoolers 😎🙌🏽😇
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2025-05-24 09:50:48 UTC

Grab your free copy of our unschooling magazine The Toshi Times issue 2 when coming to our stall at the @npub167n…zu3r in June!
We’ll be with @nprofile…xxm8 from CitadelGarden, our new partners.
Come and connect 😊🙌🏼🫶🏼
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2025-04-30 19:21:11 UTC

In 1903, John D. Rockefeller said:
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”
That one sentence says more about modern education than any government policy memo. The school system was shaped around industrial needs—bells, schedules, standardized testing—all designed to mimic factory life. Obedience, repetition, memorization. No room for questioning, autonomy, or purpose.
As a parent, I can’t un-know that. It seems more like participating in a machine than nurturing a life.
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2025-04-24 19:57:08 UTC

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Ours is a he called Michael 😎🩷

2025-04-24 19:54:09 UTC

Building a place to pee - our off-grid outdoor toilet because we also set up a tent and will camp on our land soon woohoo 😎🙌🏽🫶🏼
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2025-04-04 19:30:24 UTC

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1999 😎

2025-04-02 09:57:45 UTC

Don’t trust, verify!
We hired a mobile mechanic to help us figure out whether this Nissan pick up truck is a good buy for our land.
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2025-03-25 20:39:36 UTC

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We’re building an unschooling neighborhood for fiat-proof families in Madeira

2025-03-19 17:57:08 UTC

An excerpt of the A PLACE TO BE story:
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My childhood was rich in outdoor time, having a lot of freedom to play and explore our surroundings, however, this was limited to after-school hours and I must admit that I didn’t enjoy school at all. When learning that schools are not just unnecessary but rather harmful in many ways, it was an easy decision to not send our kids there and to value their time and our bond instead. For my own family, I envisioned living in a neighbourhood full of unschooled kids where they could just run outside and play whenever they wanted.
To cut a long story short, I didn’t find it so I decided to create exactly this: A neighbourhood called A Place To Be for us and all other families who want their children to grow up freely.
So, I hope you’ll come and visit us soon in sunny Madeira!
READ THE WHOLE
STORY HERE: https://www.aplacetobe.me/our-story

2025-03-19 17:47:50 UTC

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Oops, this video wasn’t meant for this post but hey, enjoy watching the kids’ chicken coop project 😉

2025-02-24 18:11:04 UTC

We spend at least one day a week walking shelter dogs and playing and stroking the cats … zap us if you thinks we should adopt a few once we have space for them!
The kids (and me too) definitely want ALL of them 🐈‍⬛🐶🫶🏼🤩🥰
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2025-02-19 21:05:11 UTC

Another fun day of muscle work to clean our land and then a well-deserved Espatada BBQ.
On Monday a company will start clearing the roads and pathways to create access to the clearings where we’ll build houses and other structures for our unschooling neighborhood 😎🙌🏽🤩🫶🏼
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2025-02-16 15:58:04 UTC

#fiatproof your kids 😎 A Place To Be - our unschooling neighborhood is progressing nicely… Will you fiat-proof your kids too? Get them out of the system asap 🫶🏼
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2025-01-28 18:55:04 UTC

Today we started clearing our land to prepare it for usage. Tough and BIG job but we all enjoyed it massively!
Soon we’ll camp and do some BBQ’s there. 😎🙌🏽🫶🏼
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2025-01-23 12:10:02 UTC

Footage from our last visit of our land in Caniçal (east of Madeira) … next week we’ll be spending the day there with our architect to find the best spots to build 😎🙌🏽
We have more than 530.000m2 to explore 🫶🏼
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2025-01-23 11:37:40 UTC

Bo (5): mommy, I want honey melon on my bread please.
Me: Honey melon on your bread…
Bo: of course!
Trying new things is great 😁
She doesn’t like …
#unschooling
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2025-01-22 15:52:32 UTC

One reason why I invest so much love, time and effort into the upbringing of my daughters is because I would I like to nap with Bo when I’m 85 and she 50 🫶🏼 #lowtimepreference #unschooling #family
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2025-01-05 16:53:12 UTC

What Barnaby Taught Us About Learning and Free Will
In my personal life, I’ve been engaging deeply with the topic of setting boundaries over the past few months, especially since my husband, who works as a mind coach, had a personal revelation that he shared with me. This theme has since been at the center of many of our conversations and the focus of observation in our own behaviors. It marked a breakthrough moment that triggered a series of insights, leading us to realize that our ability to set boundaries has strengthened significantly. And it feels AMAZING!!!
It’s no coincidence that today, after months of setting it aside, I picked up John Taylor Gatto’s audiobook to finish it.
In the final chapter of *Weapons of Mass Instruction*, the author tells the story of Barnaby, a student who defied the conventions of traditional education with the simple but profound declaration, “I prefer not to.” This phrase, which may sound passive, actually carries revolutionary power. For Gatto, Barnaby’s gentle refusal embodies the spirit of unschooling, the ability to question and reject systems that stifle curiosity and individual growth. It’s a reminder that the ability to say “no” — to exams, to standardized learning, to rigid systems — is a crucial tool in the journey toward true, self-directed education.
In the world of unschooling, we often talk about fostering intrinsic motivation, nurturing curiosity, and respecting the individuality of each learner. Barnaby’s story brings these values into focus. He was not lazy, unintelligent, or defiant in a traditional sense. He was, in Gatto’s words, a young person aware of his autonomy and willing to defend it. By choosing not to participate in exams and evaluations, Barnaby was reclaiming his right to an education that made sense to him. He was rejecting the idea that his worth or abilities could be boiled down to a letter grade or a percentile rank.
Barnaby’s “I prefer not to” resonates deeply with the ethos of unschooling. In an unschooling community, learning is pursued not because it’s mandated, but because it’s meaningful and relevant to each learner’s life. Rather than viewing exams and standardized tests as the ultimate markers of success, unschooling values a deeper, more personalized approach to learning. The pressure to conform, to achieve by external standards, is replaced by an emphasis on exploring passions, discovering strengths, and respecting the natural learning rhythms of each individual.
John Taylor Gatto understood that one of the most powerful things a student can learn is how to refuse what doesn’t serve them. This idea isn’t about shirking responsibility; rather, it’s about exercising free will in a way that aligns with one’s values and genuine interests. Exams, after all, are designed to measure conformity and compliance as much as they are meant to assess knowledge. The freedom to say, “I prefer not to,” is the freedom to prioritize one’s learning journey over the arbitrary demands of the system.
In many ways, Barnaby’s story is also a call to parents and educators. It challenges us to examine our own beliefs about education and question the value of the “academic hoops” students are so often forced to jump through. By encouraging our kids to question, resist, and reclaim their own education, we empower them to take control of their lives and learning.
So when people ask why we don’t send our children to school, Gatto’s response seems the most fitting: “I prefer not to.” It’s a simple yet powerful way to honor our right to an education that aligns with our values.
Barnaby’s journey demonstrates that learning is not a passive act; it’s something alive and full of potential. Through Gatto’s story, we’re reminded that saying “no” to what doesn’t feel right is often the first step toward saying “yes” to a life of authentic, joyful learning. And perhaps, that’s one of the greatest lessons we can give our children: the courage to choose, to think for themselves, and to reclaim the power of their own voice in a world that too often tries to silence it.

2024-06-08 22:01:29 UTC

Lachlan (27) hasn’t spent a day at school and is as bright, happy and successful as can be 🤜🤛
Tune in to the #fiatproof podcast to hear more about it 🎧
https://youtu.be/8FZ2OHZMMvU?feature=shared
#unschooling
#greenpill
#fiatproof

2024-06-08 21:48:25 UTC

Wheely?
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2024-05-30 22:44:06 UTC

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Thanks for a great idea 💡 on it 🤜🤛

2024-05-30 12:17:58 UTC

Super stoked to talk to our dear friend @npub1lel…kvyz who shot a documentary about APTB & #unschooling.
He's super cool, talented, lives an amazing life and is a true #bitcoiner. We can all learn a lot from him 🤓
#fiatproof
#bitcoin
#unschooling
#fiat-proofpodcast
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2024-05-17 15:30:37 UTC

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2024-05-17 15:25:04 UTC

Was that you who bought us "Cool Chemistry Concoctions" book? 🫵
Thank you 💥
We'll put it to good use @ A Place To Be trying all the 50 formulas that fizz, foam, splatter and ooze 🧪🧑‍🔬⚗️👩‍🔬🔬
If you want to support us, here's what else we need:
🔬🎨🪘📚📋🏓🐔 🔦 https://geyser.fund/project/decentralisedworldschoolinghubmadeira

2024-05-17 10:45:57 UTC

We recently bought a car, and I'm very pleased with it, especially since it's a 7-seater, allowing me to transport lots of friends. However, there is one thing that bothers me a bit...
It has an inbuilt 'annoying co-pilot' that tells me what to do, advises me to be careful, and even controls the steering wheel sometimes!!!
Can you imagine?! 😲
When I get 'too close' to a car in front, a big red circle flashes up on the display saying BREAK!
The first few times I saw it, it distracted me quite a lot.
When I don't hold the steering wheel stable at all times, a little orange sign pops up, reminding me to drive in a straight line.
And when I was on the motorway and a second lane opened up to the right, which I wanted to take, the car blocked the steering wheel slightly to let me know I shouldn't leave my route.
From then on, I was very wary of how I was driving, whether any light or sign would appear to warn me, and I was getting nervous about making the car—Silver, we called her Silver—not like my driving.
Crazy, huh?! 😕
For a while, Silver was actually making me doubt my decisions, my way of driving perfectly fine (My dad taught me how to drive at the age of 12, and I have driven in Germany, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and Portugal). I was second-guessing myself until I became aware of the crazy situation:
The car is like an adult telling a child what to do, advising them to be careful, and interfering physically with the kid's actions when they think they might be in danger, even though the child is in tune with their instincts, being aware of the risks and dangers around, and making sound decisions.
A complete no-go at APTB! 😈
Having distracting signs popping up made me nervous and not focused on the road for seconds, which could have made it more likely for me to create an accident!
The same applies to adults telling kids 'be careful,' 'danger,' 'stop,' 'you're about to fall,' 'let me take over,' 'you don't know,' etc. Too much of this and not letting the child set their boundaries will lead to the kid second-guessing their decisions. Studies show that this leds more more accidents!
I've gotten used to all the flashes and signs warning me, and I can ignore them, but maybe I will ask Alex to deactivate these settings 😉
Yeah, I'll get rid of this authority that thinks it knows best because I know better... because I'm part of the real world 😏
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2024-05-14 15:21:28 UTC

I just finished our weekly marketing/branding call with my team: 4 women brainstorming and working towards an outstanding business that offers our members the BEST environment for the whole family, but above all the ultimate learning opportunities for our children.
Something new I have decided for APTB is the following:
You already know that we won't be offering any classes in the beginning and that the kids will take over the structure and schedules for the Blocks bit by bit. What I also said is that we'll have containers available with different kinds of materials in it: tables, chairs, paper, books, a computer, tools, musical instruments etc.
However, today I have made the decision to provide empty containers WITH NOTHING INSIDE 😱 It will be like a blank canvas for the kids and Partners and give the optimal opportunity to go back to the state of just Being (A place to BE), spend our time in nature, getting to know the other people around, and then at some point, kids will ask for things they want and need, like tables, chairs, paper, a book about a specific topic, maybe some tools and material to build something. I don't know what. And that's the beauty about it 😇
A story I told my team to make my point clear is the following: I heard of this Russian unschooling group of kids of different ages who spent their days in the forest among themselves, no adults, no tools or materials available. They started bringing stuff from home that they needed to build things and they created their own environment learning along the way.
2 other mantras I keep telling myself have reinforced my decision:
1. Less is more
2. Do the opposite of what the system would do.
Call me crazy and leave my list, if you don't agree or call me crazy and come along on this incredible journey 😊

2024-05-12 08:09:45 UTC

Sunday at 10am EST time, I'll be on the Bitcoin Daily Show, a 2 hour live podcast. The audience can ask questions so if you'd like to listen in or raise a question 👇https://x.com/i/spaces/1ynJOywnlzOKR

2024-05-06 15:34:08 UTC

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2024-05-06 15:33:29 UTC

Was that you who bought us a circular saw? 🫵
Thank you 💥
We'll put it to good use building A Place To Be 🌳🌲🪵🪚
If you want to support us, here's what else we need:
📚📋🏓🐔 🔦 https://geyser.fund/project/decentralisedworldschoolinghubmadeira

2024-04-26 19:34:59 UTC

I ripped my diplomas to pieces 💥💥💥
https://youtu.be/cHii0WNF6oQ?feature=shared

2024-04-20 15:56:07 UTC

Proudly representing APTB https://files.sovbit.host/media/bbb722a99aa8f6f1cbc35f46bc607ebfda19f363d81426a8f449da4d71f2b4cd/999c7cf3c28204fbc65a210b8a89e329c6669d5f6c79766a563b8ff47933c9d6.webp & Madeira in the first SAT @npub1jr8…wwnw in Epoch V 4/20 😎
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2024-04-18 16:56:15 UTC

Meet Jacob @npub1jr8…wwnw a hiking-loving APTB member.
We met Jacob on the Bitcoin Atlantis conference in Madeira in March 2024 and we green-pilled (turned him into an unschooler) him within a couple of days. This year he, his wife and 2 kids will be moving from Scotland to Madeira to be part of APTB.
In this podcast he explains what sold him so quickly on unschooling, what he'll be doing at APTB and his journey.
https://youtu.be/yYSLDZWshKs?feature=shared

2024-04-16 14:20:49 UTC

This goes out to all the Bitcoiners who still send their kids to school:
You show the government your middle finger saying 'You're not going to control MY money! I'm not letting you choose what you think it's worth or devalue it! Money should be decentralised and it works best like this.'
But at the same time you give your kids into the government's schooling system where they control, manipulate, abuse, indoctrinate your kids with nonesence that enslaves them into the fiat world.
Why don't also show schools the middle finger saying 'You're not going to control MY children! I'm not letting you choose what you think she's worth or devalue her! Education should be decentralised and it works best like this?

2024-04-16 14:08:11 UTC

I received a reply to my email about school being like a life sentence in prison that contains some powerful messages and I would like you to read them too:
Hi, Sylvia
I enjoy reading Your newsletters :)
Regarding your comparison of the school/school system to a prison/sentence
From my school experience and almost 10 years of homeschooling my children, I can say that the school system approach stays with a person for long or even forever.
Maybe even more so in the one who fits well into the school system( easy learning, good grades, being good in all subjects without looking for their strengths and passions) than for those who flunk the system, barely pass subjects that do not interest them, and have a life outside school.
This is my experience of good fitting into the school system. The process of de-schooling of myself is a ploughing ground for me.
Despite so many years of homeschooling my children, this school system approach still lingers in me and I sometimes fund it for my children unfortunately. It is almost impossible for me to unschool instead of homeschool. Not only because of Polish school law, but also because my mostly good experience with school. Some kind of paradox I think ;) I have freedom to do different but choose to do the same as I was schooled.
Please, continue Your work :) It is important for people to know, that there are other options than school system, or if they have to put kids to school, they can use it as a help but not the deciding factor to raise Your kids well.
I appreciate messages like this very much. It shows that we're all just humans doing our best. I think whether you decide to send you kids to school, homeschool, unschool or do anything in between, the most important things are:
1. Looking within and unraveling the layers of conditioning
2. Giving our children as much unconditional love as we can
3. Finding what works for your family
What do YOU think and what is your experience?
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2024-04-15 20:56:26 UTC

Hey Plebbles,
On Saturday, I graduated from a white to a blue belt in BJJ 😎 I must admit that it feels good but I can also see the relation to a school's grade system as a motivation to do better and keep going. I suppose the difference is that I made the choice to practice BJJ, nobody sends me there 4 times a week, I do it because I like it... I'd go every day if I could 😏 Those days will come once I've set up a tatami area at APTB 😀
Anyway, a teenager there who also got a new belt was very upset and when I asked a friend of mine what's up with him, he said 'His mom prohibited him to go to BJJ classes because he's not doing well at school.' This triggered me and I said 'F...g schools!' Although I know it's not the school who denied him his passion...
SUPPORT STRENGTHS, NOT WEAKNESSES
I went on a 5min rant saying to my friend 'Never put school before your children!' and so on. My friend told me about his 5 year old son who will be starting school this year and when he tried to sit him down to teach him something, the boy wasn't interested and didn't want to do it so he left him alone and didn't try again. He could see what I was talking about...
He's concerned about sending him to school but knows that when you want to take your kid out of the system, social services come knocking at your door. Therefore I told him that the important thing is to know that the system is effed up and even though his son will have to go through it, he mustn't be afraid of bad grades and should always remain on his son's side.
After this conversation I realized that it's almost like his son will be serving a 10+ year prison sentence that he will just have to endure and make the best out of. But it can turn into a life sentence because if he gets caught up in the system, the conditioning received during this time, will be the driving force in the next decades, unless he undoes the damage. You can take the prisoner out of jail but it's not that easy to take prison out of the person.
What are your thoughts on this?
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