October 7, 2008 – 1:16 pm
Click here to read the comic first then come back. My kids used to always complain about how serious I was and how Daddy was more fun. I would forget to spend time playing with the kids because I get caught up in other projects. I didn’t spend much time just being with them, playing. [...]
October 2, 2008 – 12:15 am
I’m a missions junky. I’ve wanted to be missionary since I was a teenager. When it was time to decide what to study in college, I figured teaching or nursing would be the most useful on the mission field, and I didn’t like blood, so it had to be teaching. We have never actually moved [...]
September 17, 2008 – 3:44 pm
I run into this question often from friends, family members, forums, and even unschooling friends. Many are fearful enough that their children won’t naturally attempt to learn things they deem boring or important (often both) that they specifically purchase a curriculum for just that subject–regardless of whether the child has shown interest in it. Issac [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged curriculum, education, family, interest led learning, kids, learning, math, questions and answers, Unschooling
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September 16, 2008 – 1:23 am
Mandy of MandyMom.com posted the following and I asked if I could share it here. Please pray about this and if you feel led, then give. You can read more about their experience with Hurricane Ike here and here. As I previously mentioned, I wanted to create a paypal account for people to send donations [...]
September 10, 2008 – 1:19 pm
This was written a year ago. It is rather rambling and the pictures I originally had here are gone with my old blog so these photos are from the last year. I had always considered myself an eclectic/relaxed home schoolers–especially compared to my friends who were all very structured, curriculum bound home schoolers. We [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Special Needs, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooling
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Tagged home education, how I got here, interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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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, [...]
August 15, 2008 – 12:55 pm
This is the only time of year that I get antsy and start worrying about unschooling. I’d be so interested in hearing about how you encouraged learning with younger kids. Or did you just let them play until they came and asked? I find mine haven’t been asking much lately and I worry it’s something [...]
By Jena
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Also posted in Application, Books, Encouragement, Favorite Resources, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooling
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Tagged interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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August 13, 2008 – 12:13 pm
God is everywhere working all around us, just as learning is everywhere, and with both all we have to do is open our eyes to see so we can join in. Photo: Trees in bloom. When God really wants us to learn something He speaks to us through our circumstances exactly where we are. Photo: [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged child, Christian, education, God, interest
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August 10, 2008 – 12:52 pm
One day I was looking at a website devoted to classical education. We’ve dabbled in this philosophy, and in fact, Peter’s 9th grade private school describes itself as giving a classical education. So I asked Peter, now three years out of that and on his way to the University of Chicago, what he honestly thought [...]
