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The Children's Community

The Children's Community is a liberation-centered, mixed-age, agile learning community practicing connection, consent, & autonomy.

Young people 5-18+ unschooling together on a farm & in the forest. STL’s first ALC!
This space is dedicated to sharing about the experiences of children at TCC as well as our values as a learning community. This is not a forum for any dialogue that is harmful to children & other marginalized groups. This includes, but is not limited to: racism; homophobia; adultis

m; COVID denialism; & oppressive commentary, bigotry, & trolling of any kind. Harmful comments will be deleted & folks causing harm blocked.

05/29/2026

🗣️ Do you know that CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE and want to tell the world?

⏳ THIS WEEKEND ONLY, grab a tee or tank and let everyone know you’re an accomplice to young people! With sizes ranging from toddler to adult, there’s something for everyone. You can have it shipped right to your doorstep, to boot. 📬

🌱 Want a lightweight summery tee in a gorgeous color that also happens to have our logo on it? We have those, too! Big thanks to local makers Tiny Little Monster for working up these custom shirts for us.

🗓️ This short, limited run ends at MIDNIGHT, Monday, June 1.

🏃🏻 Link to purchase is in the comments, or at tinyurl.com/tcctees. ⬇️

✨ For every shirt you buy, we’ll receive a small profit - each dollar will be invested right back into our relationship-centered programming and the children here! Thank you for supporting our community, and young people everywhere.✨

Don’t need a shirt? No problem! We’re grateful for your likes and shares.

YouthLiberation

05/28/2026

🌈 Pride month is right around the corner and we are thrilled to be joining Pride & Joy again this weekend to kick it off! We’re grateful to , , and the folks at for conjuring up this (so very much necessary) event and bringing it to life. 🌌✨

📍Find us at The Living Room in Maplewood this Sunday, May 31

⏱️ 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

🎨 🖌️ Join us to co-create a community mural, make some art, and spread joy!

Let’s create, share in celebration, and practice a future in which q***r young people are free, affirmed, and thriving. We can build this world together, right now! 🌎

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨🪩🤸‍♀️🎊🌱

05/26/2026

📸 Spring snapshot: FORAGING!

In a place with no curriculum, grades, or “educational benchmarks,” some folks wonder how we learn. The notion of emergence comes up here often as one of many responses to that question, as does our connection to the land.

We notice when the violets blanket the ground, we greet them, and someone here inevitably says, “It’s time to make violet lemonade again!” They make a plan, find a recipe, calculate how many lemons and how much sugar we need, experiment with the ratios of syrup to water to make the best-tasting version. When the chickweed is coming up, and we’re excited to find the juciest plants, to transform them into a pesto (or something else!). When the first morel mushrooms pop from the soil, we squeal, and we plan. This year we harvested, cleaned, and sautéed them in butter and salt, and mixed them into a fluffy quiche seasoned with garlic from the gardens. Smoked gouda and a couple other cheeses rounded out this year’s experiment to rave reviews.

The ways the land teaches us are explicit and implicit both - like a reliable friend, showing up with wisdom and gifts around the same time each year, we greet her with a resonant knowing and warm gratitude, tending to the soil and the trees and beyond. Some of what we learn we could perhaps name, but most of it is transmitted less noticeably, into our senses and cells. It’s in the recognition of the smell of the violet syrup as it steeps, and the fuchsia it turns with the addition of a splash of lemon juice. It’s in the way we know which chickweed to harvest by the curl and color of the delicate leaves. It’s in the awareness of exactly where and when to scout for morels, based on the curves of the spaces we traverse each day, each year.

What are we all learning? Who’s to say. We really can’t know exactly, ever. But we can feel that what happens in these experiences matters. It eludes being captured in words or metrics or grades or “learning goals” and yet it’s also everything, at once.

✨ Relationship, relationship, relationship. ✨

05/15/2026

✨ Together. ✨

Yesterday was our last day of the year with one another before summer camp begins in a few weeks, and our hearts are full with all the ways we’ve practiced being together.

As we reflected on our year and shared highlights, several young people offered that the best part of the year for them was welcoming new people to our community, alongside deepening their existing relationships, and “spending time with each other.”

We do this work together. 💜✨🌱

04/24/2026

🎙️ The moment you’ve all been waiting for (maybe it’s the moment WE’VE been waiting for…!)!

Anyway, the first episode of the TCC Radio Show is HERE!

During our first conversation together, we connect around the question, “How do we learn?” in a place with no grades, curriculum, or conventional schoolishness of any kind.

Give it a listen here! 🎙️⬇️

https://www.thechildrenscommunitystl.com/tcc-radio-show

04/13/2026

Starting our week with this new life, first thing.
Name: Tortellini. 🐢

04/08/2026

How many young people are in this tree? 5? 6? 7? 🌳

04/04/2026

🌸 This week brought another annual ritual to fruition: foraging for spring redbuds and transforming them into a Redbud & Lemon Cornmeal Loaf Cake (a delicious mouthful)! 🌸

This seasonal treat is one that most excites us about the start of spring, among a few other culinary joys. As the land wakes up and begins to green, we start hearing murmurs…”It’s going to be time for (that dessert with the long name) again soon!” We check the trees, we walk the forest. We wait. And when it’s time, and the redbuds announce themselves, many hands come together to gather, forage, mix, combine, fold, and bake. To create another rendition of this community favorite.

Each year our senses become more attuned. We reflect on earlier versions and what we might do differently - and the same - this year. The bakers sometimes shift, though some young people here have made this cake each year we’ve enjoyed it. Four, five times? We can’t remember. Each time has been special in its own way.

This year’s rendition was the most exquisite yet, we agreed - perfectly baked, extra lemon icing, garnished gorgeously with foraged redbuds, spring beauties, and violets. A tether to the land and one another, this is something we treasure creating together and sharing each year, here and then gone again, until spring comes again. 🌱✨🌸

04/01/2026

This Trans Day of Visibility is a call to get not only visible, but to be moved into action.

The time for setting aside a day for “celebration” of trans visibility has passed.

We’ve seen over this past year, and very recently in particular, the ways trans visibility both threatens power and is weaponized. This is especially true for trans kids, trans women and femmes, and most especially Black & Brown trans children, women, and femmes.

Cis accomplices: the call now is to meaningfully and VISIBLY protect trans lives. “Protect trans kids” must evolve into changing their material reality from the status quo into one that affirms their existence.

Trans folks ARE very much visible - and so is their plight. If we can see that, and want to move into being accomplices, that requires we move beyond intention and into visibility, and action, and in ways that threaten power.

What will we commit to making visible, and ACTIONABLE, in the creation of a safe world for trans folks and ensuring that they can not only live, but thrive?

03/26/2026

“This is the place I learned to skip rocks.”

We took a walk in the forest today to check to see if the redbuds were blooming in a particular place we call Redbud Grove. It seems they bloomed early this season, and were frizzled by a late frost, and are now dropping their blossoms, creating a lovely pink litter on the forest floor. We detoured to an area nearby where the creek bends and widens, a spot the young people playfully named “The Pelinsula.”

One young person was immediately struck by a memory from around this time last year, when her peers taught her how to skip rocks. She had tried many times before, but something about this place and the people she was with helped it finally click. Compelled by her recollection, this young person picked up some small flat stones and went to skipping, stones hopping across the water on her first toss.

Our experiences and the learning that they inspire are not incidental to the places and spaces we experience them in. We are, always, living in dynamic relationship with the spaces where we spend our time and the land and stories that shape them. When we return to these spaces after time away it’s like reconnecting with an old friend, and the experiences we’ve shared come rushing back to us.

“I’m realizing as we’re walking how good it feels to be in the forest - all the memories I have in all the different places here.”

The forest holds many stories, we agreed, with many more to be told. 🌳✨

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Mae Lynn Drive
Fenton, MO
63026

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 3:30pm

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+13142827407

Website

http://www.thechildrenscommunitystl.com/

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