Author Archives: Amanda

I’m a mom, a wife, a knitter, a gardener, and often a crazed lunatic. (But I try not to let that show on my blog. I said try.) I blog at http://crunchychristianmom.blogspot.com.

Unschooling Reading

May 19, 2009 – 5:53 am

After four months of avoiding our late fees at the library, we finally headed back to the land of abundant knowledge two weeks ago. I love, love, love that I can check out our library system’s offerings online, request the books I want, and have them waiting for me at the front desk.
I realized after [...]

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Does interest-led learning promote ignorance?

August 19, 2008 – 1:55 pm

Well, I’m half-way through the book! Would be farther, but it didn’t arrive until almost dinner yesterday. Needless to say I didn’t end up cooking. And now UberDad wants a turn, so I thought I’d finish a reply to a little comment about unschooling posted the other day. I rarely get questions from random visitors, [...]

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Definition of Radical Christian Unschooling

August 18, 2008 – 12:30 pm

Someone posted this fabulous definition on the Radical Christian Unschooling yahoo group I belong to, and I thought I’d share since not everyone who reads this blog is familiar with the idea.
“Radical Unschooling is the Trust that a child will seek out and learn what he needs to know, when he needs to know it, [...]

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