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, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Special Needs, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts
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Tagged home education, how I got here, interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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September 7, 2008 – 9:40 pm
Now YOU can! Want to share Christianunschooling.com with your friends? Feel free to use the button below, or make your own. <a href=”http://christianunschooling.com/” target=””><img width=”160″ alt=”christian unschooling” src=”http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/hmariey/cubutton.jpg” height=”180″ /></a> Just copy and paste it into a text (or on blogger n html/javascript) widget in your sidebar and you should be all set. You could [...]
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, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids
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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 16, 2008 – 1:22 pm
At three thirty every afternoon a dingy yellow school bus rambles past our house. My oldest and I are invariably working on math lessons while the little ones sleep, or, at least, are in their room supposed to be asleep. My son gazes wistfully out of the window wishing he could be finished. Then I [...]
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, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts
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Tagged interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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August 13, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Last week, the Heart of the Matter Homeschool Conference became my talk radio. Fellow homeschoolers encouraged while I taught lessons, dressed dolls, washed dishes, folded laundry, and skipped around the internet. There were so many helpful ideas. So many passionate speakers. So many foundational truths. How do I sort it all? Even encouragement becomes cacophony [...]
