I'm That Mum: Sue Patterson

With me this week is Sue Patterson a self confessed, highly involved, Mum of three who loves her children as if today is the only day she’s going to have with them. She knows she raised them differently from other people and she wanted them to unfold naturally without unnecessary peer pressure or authoritarian squashing. She went from soccer Mum in the suburbs to radical unschooler wherever she happened to be since she was a Air Force wife and they moved a lot. Sue wasn’t interested in establishing her authority or catching her children doing something wrong she wanted to be a guide, someone who had been there before, who wanted the best for them and who would love them and listen to them. Now that Sue’s children have flown the coop she blogs about her life and her “Motherhood in Transition” at Lifelong Learning and is a columnist for the new national publication at, The Homeschooler. She also runs the Unschooling Blog and Pintrest Carnivals. Bring some tea and join me on Friday to take another look at enjoying our young adult children.