When a major bullying incident proved to be the last straw, this mom from British Columbia took her daughter out of mainstream education and turned to “unschooling” for answers. Three years later, her daughter is thriving and is even running her own candle company.
Nine-year-old Lily Harper, who describes herself as a “minipreneur,” has shipped over 2,000 candles worldwide in 2022. She lives with her little sister, dad, and mom, 30-year-old hairstylist and homeschooler Chloe Greatrex, in the Canadian town of Surrey, Vancouver. The budding entrepreneur has already won a Youth in Leadership award from Vancouver’s A Woman of Worth.
“The bullying started when Lily was in grade one and 6 years old, from 2019 to 2020,” Chloe told The Epoch Times. “There were so many incidents. There were rocks that they would throw at her; one actually cut her right above the eye. It wasn’t just physical bullying, there was also emotional and mental bullying, like pretending to cut her hair or threatening to lock her outside in the cold.”…