Are There Monsters In Your Groove?

Posted 2015-11-14

R E V U E

Are There Monsters In Your Groove?

This is the first Revue in the new format which includes summaries of recent blog posts, interesting tidbits, and a list of the past week’s Classic grooves (below). But first...

BIG THANKS to everyone who sent encouraging replies to my announcement last week (The Groove Awakens). The positive feedback really energized my week!

FYI, when you reply to a Daily Groove email, it goes directly to my Inbox, and although I don’t always respond, please know that I read and appreciate every single one. (If you want my advice about something, please send your questions to This Email Address [error] instead of replying to a Daily Groove email.)

Daily Groove Goes Social

One of you asked if The Daily Groove is on Facebook. The answer is yes, sort of. I’ve started posting “GrooveCards” (the quotation graphics at the bottom of the weekday emails) to the Daily Groove page on Facebook. You can “Like” that page if you want to get notified of new grooves on Facebook.

You can also follow @DailyGroove on Twitter, or follow my GrooveCard board on Pinterest. The cards are intended to make it easy and fun to share the Grooves you like with your friends, so please do!

Freedom to Learn

A few of you asked for more info about the advocacy work I’m doing with the group led by Peter Gray. Our goal is to advance a societal shift toward non-coercive, self-directed education for young people. A big part of our efforts will involve informing the public about alternatives to conventional schooling, such as free-schools and “unschooling” (which we are going to start referring to as “self-directed homeschooling”).

I summarized my thoughts on the main problems with conventional schools, and the importance of self-direction, in this post. You can see who else is involved in this project here.

Monster Child?

My latest article is about making sense of a common scenario that leaves many parents mystified: children who are reportedly happy and well-behaved at school turning into “little monsters” the moment they reconnect with their parents. Check it out: The Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome (Read time: 5–8 min.)