September 19, 2008 – 9:27 pm
I stepped into a crowded but quiet library on a weekday morning with two antsy boys, one sweet girl and one ornery two year old who wants to walk “myself!” bypassed the computer directory (to save time) and headed straight to the librarian to help me find a book on the Atkins diet. What I ended up with [...]
September 18, 2008 – 2:53 pm
(a repost of a blog entry from February) After weeks of freezing cold temps and above average snow and ice, this week feels like spring. It’s been really beautiful – high around 60, sunny, not too much wind – just my all-time perfect favorite weather. So, since the kids and I have been stuck inside, [...]
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, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, 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 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, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, 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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September 7, 2008 – 12:37 am
The above video is long but well worth the watch. I recommend taking it in small chunks because it is full of very interesting information. My husband described it as running through an art museum trying to see everything. What does a video by an anthropologist about media literacy have to do with unschooling? Mike [...]
August 22, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Peter and I had an interesting conversation yesterday after a friend told him why she didn’t like homeschooling (at least the way we do it). She said she thought homeschoolers aren’t challenged enough, that if something is hard, they just don’t do it. He wondered what I thought. We had a great conversation, and I [...]
By Jena
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Also posted in Application, Encouragement, Learning Styles, Personality, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged definiteions, education, interest led 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 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 [...]
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, Character development, Encouragement, Favorite Resources, Learning Styles, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooling
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Tagged interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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August 15, 2008 – 12:34 pm
In a recent discussion, Marnellie asked me what I did at the beginning of homeschool. She was surprised when I mentioned never teaching my children the alphabet. Our lessons have not included A is for Apple worksheets, or practicing the alphabet song. So how did my children learn letter names and ask others to sing along? A is for [...]
