Category Archives: Day in the Life

What our days look like.

Unschooling Question: What about math and the other boring stuff they need?

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 [...]

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faith to believe

September 11, 2008 – 1:39 am

My daughter T loves animals, and she enjoys training them as well. She’s specifically fond of horses, birds and dogs, and even more especially the ponies she rides, she and her brother’s ferrets (one of which she’d entered into a 4-H show last year), and our German Shepherd dog, Samson, whom she’s been “training” for [...]

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Confessions of a Homeschool Mama

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 [...]

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