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🧠💔 “When Confidence Looks Like Rebellion — and Everyone Blames the Freedom...” 💔🧠 🌈Two years ago, we chose unschooling. Not to escape academics — but to embrace learning beyond limits, to raise a child who feels free to think, feel, question, and be. 🌈Back then, our son T was calm, polite, obedient — people admired how well-mannered he was even without school. They praised us: “Wow, so cultured, so grounded — and you unschool him?” But now, he’s 7. 🌈He speaks up. He back answers. He questions everything. He doesn’t agree at once. He sounds rude at times. Yes, it’s true — he’s not the “well-behaved” child anymore. And let me be honest — I’m not justifying bad behavior. I do correct him. I do guide him. But what I do see — what most don’t — is the confidence behind it all. 🌈He expresses himself so freely because he knows it’s safe. Because his emotions were never shut down. Because we’ve raised him to believe that his voice matters, even if it trembles, even if it challenges. But what most people forget — or choose to ignore — is that he’s going through a huge change too. 💔 Just when I stepped into the most tender and vulnerable postpartum phase... 💔 He stepped into the most difficult transition of his own — from being the center of our world to suddenly sharing that space with a newborn. He was trying to make sense of a world that changed overnight. And instead of seeing that, they pointed fingers. And the most bitter thing I heard — in my most fragile state — was: “This is all happening because of unschooling.”‼️‼️‼️ That one line... stayed. 💬 What they see as misbehavior, I see as unfiltered honesty. 💬 What they label as rudeness, I see as emotional release. 💬 What they call rebellion, I call a child who feels safe enough to be real. Unschooling isn’t the problem. It’s the mirror — it reflects everything: the joy, the struggle, the resistance, the raw growth. We didn’t choose this path to raise a “perfect” child. We chose it to raise a whole one. 💬 Do you also face these moments of doubt, blame, or judgment Let’s talk about it. Let's normalize raising emotionally honest children. #UnschoolingJourney

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This post was published on 12th June, 2025 by Nidhi on her Instagram handle "@diariesofts (Nidhi Shah)". Nidhi has total 17.6K followers on Instagram and has a total of 499 post.This post has received 33 Likes which are lower than the average likes that Nidhi gets. Nidhi receives an average engagement rate of 0.54% per post on Instagram. This post has received 6 comments which are than the average comments that Nidhi gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile. #UnschoolingJourney has been used frequently in this Post.