Lately, I have gotten some very thought provoking questions and I wanted to share them and my response and give you an opportunity to respond as well. Matthew asks: I’m curious: What is the attitude of Christian unschoolers to religious education? Do you think it is important for children to be taught about religion, or [...]
It has been a while since I have shared some of the wonderful posts around the web– this whole life learning things gets awfully busy. By now everyone knows about Good Morning America’s segment on unschooling . The good news is that it has prompted some brilliant responses around the web. For instance, How Monkey [...]
October 19, 2009 – 12:12 am
First-year college performance: A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates Okay Kids, Time For Bedlam unstructured structure
September 22, 2009 – 1:50 pm
A typical day in the life over at All About (My) Boys: tossing a few things A lovely photo journal of what looks like an incredible educational trip over at Growing Urban Wildflowers: “…or, there and back again” A great post about a duck and a boy over at Life-Led-Learning: Wild Duck Rescue A review [...]
August 13, 2009 – 3:30 am
Now that everyone else is gearing up for the school year those of us who unschool are finally starting to slow down. I know that we personally have had a busy summer full of all sorts of educational opportunities which have kept me from blogging, and I am sure many others are finding the same [...]
August 11, 2009 – 1:09 pm
This post I found over at Peace on Dark Nights is one of the best posts I have seen in a while on the difference between unit studies (and traditional homeschooling) and unschooling. And my kids find it just as frustrating as I do that all the 5 year old and up kids in books [...]
It’s nice to have children’s books, but far too many of them have too much in the way of pictures. When children see books, as they do in the family where the adults read, with pages and pages and pages of print, it becomes pretty clear that if you’re going to find out what’s in [...]
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 [...]
A pair of researchers, Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas, are conducting a survey on how children learn to read at home. From the site: ‘In “How Children Learn at Home” we concentrated on how children learn school subjects informally at home. Our aim was to build up a general picture of learning at home. This [...]
I wanted to pop in and share a great article I ran into today on raising kids to really be successful and not just follow others: Raising Kids with a Wild Streak. Definitely a great read.
