Pirate Parties, Relaxation, and Messes
The thing about unschooling is that no two days look the same. Sure, we are doing more “schoolish” stuff around here these days but that doesn’t mean all (or even any) of our days look like school. In...
View ArticleStrewing vs. Self-Discovery
Strewing, or finding interesting things to leave in your child’s path in hopes of sparking an interest, is a fabulous thing. But there’s no denying that it is also sometimes a superfluous thing. There...
View ArticlePassionate Peeps Up in This House
There is a lot of passion in this house. Every member of this family is passionate about something, and often times many things. We aren’t ordinary boring people by any stretch of the imagination. Many...
View ArticlePassions Without Labels or Stigmas
Recently I wrote a post series on my blog about strewing. For my final post, I told how my middle daughter Denna followed her passions, with me strewing along the way, through so many topics and...
View ArticleSMILE! It’s a Book Review!
Today my two oldest children and I held our first book club meeting. The idea was my daughter Ronin’s, but I thought it was a great idea too! You see, a week and a half ago she found a graphic novel...
View ArticleAutodidactism Is Contagious
I took this photo of my son, helping his grandmother learn a software program to remind me: my children are and always will be autodidacts. He had no knowledge of this software Grandma wanted help...
View ArticleUnschooling Happens: Impromptu Astronomy
Tonight at about 10:00, I got a text from a friend that said, “I remember The Squirrel went through a planets phase a few months ago, I thought you might want to know tonight Jupiter is super bright...
View ArticleHow We Fund Our Unschooling Life
Our daughter was 11 when we unenrolled her from public school. For the first 11 years of her life, I worked full-time-plus, in an office, and for several of those years, I was also a full-time college...
View ArticleFrom haphazard to awesome: When God provides learning ‘coincidences’
We don’t have any required subjects in our house. We discover and learn about things we’re interested in, and we follow our passions. And when we start to “fade out” of one topic of interest, we often...
View ArticleAlmost Anything Is Better Than A Workbook
I know that unschoolers don’t use curriculum, but what if your child is asking for it? Is it wrong to give them a workbook and let them go through it? This questioned is posed a lot in our Facebook...
View ArticleTechnology and Unschooling
Technology, and giving our children unlimited access to it, plays a big role in their learning. It has provided wonderful opportunities for our family to connect and strengthen our relationships....
View ArticleGaining Perspective On “Unproductive” Days
When I think of a typical unschooling day, I tend to start blending all the awesome things that have happened over several days into one amazing experience. There are days for us that are filled with...
View ArticleWhat can they learn from _____? A Candid Conversation
What can they learn from ______? <insert video game or tv show or whatever most people consider “not educational” – pick your favorite non-educational thing and talk about what YOUR kids learned...
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