December 11, 2009 – 8:00 pm
A few weeks ago, I’d posted an interview with a 13yo homeschooler (my son), who is now an avid reader, on my blog. I received this comment from a reader, Lindy:
WOW, what a great kid you have there. And you know great kids come from great parents. Good job!!! I am trying really hard to [...]
By Beth
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Also posted in Books, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, Favorite Resources, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Video Games
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Tagged books, delight-directed learning, homeschooling, reading
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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
August 20, 2009 – 10:20 pm
Rainbow Sticks: About siblings and how they grow.
A New School Year: About, surprisingly, a new school year as unschoolers.
I know there are some others out there that I missed–if you see a great one post it in the comments please (including if it is your own).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Every once in a while we have a day that can be described as nothing short of educational, which we usually call “edumactational” to make it more fun. These are the sorts of days that I dreamed of when my children were still babies and I thought about homeschooling them as they were older; [...]
December 19, 2008 – 11:38 pm
First, for those who don’t know the above is an xkcd comic. Perl is a programming language with many uses. The comic reminded me of my husband and got me thinking about the really important things and the things that are not so important.
As most of you know my husband is a self taught programmer [...]
November 18, 2008 – 10:20 pm
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the facilitating of that passion to learn, to build and to creatively express ones self; that desire to grow and to become something great that’s within us all, my own children specifically, manifesting itself in so many various talents. As a parent and my children’s primary [...]
By Beth
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Also posted in Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Personality, Struggles, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids
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Tagged delight-directed learning, eclectic homeschooling, education, inspiration, Unschooling
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November 10, 2008 – 10:45 am
Recently at our monthly home school meeting there was a discussion panel on styles of home schooling and different curriculum used. There were 4 mom’s on the panel. One (L) was to talk about being fully aligned with the Province, one (J) was to talk about using a specific curriculum, another (C) about [...]
