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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Posted in Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Personality, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids
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Also tagged delight-directed learning, eclectic homeschooling, education, inspiration
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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 [...]
October 9, 2008 – 4:16 pm
The other day the antique appraiser I help out, remembering how in the past I have needed to work less in order to spend time teaching the kids, asked when I needed to change my schedule and be less available. It caught me off guard because I have gotten so used to our lifestyle of [...]
By Heather
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Posted in Application, Character development, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Also tagged children, Christian, education, interest led learning, learning, life
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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 waiting [...]
By Heather
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Posted in Application, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Struggles, Testimonies, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Also tagged curriculum, education, family, interest led learning, kids, learning, math, questions and answers
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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 [...]
