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what does "radical unschooling" mean to you?

Someone expressed it well to me the other day "living life as if school doesn't exist"

how long have you been unschooling or homeschooling?

I took my oldest son out of school after just 7 weeks of it - in 1986. I was attracted to the unschooling philosophy from the start but it took a long time for me to really get there, and even longer to get to RU. I am now "retired" and my sons have all grown and left home.

names and ages of children

Greg 28
Steve 26
Simon 22
Jeff 19

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At 8:28pm on September 4, 2008, Ruth said…: Hi Cally,
lol, I know, it was a massive compost heap. We had this new idea to get even more of our circle gardens prepared instead of creating another chicken dome so decided to do a big compost heap enclosed with hay bales. It worked really well and got all the material from our garden and weeds from our ponds and horse poo from a side of the road somewhere...
Anyway, that compost has been used now and we don't have one like that anymore. I decided it was just too much work to maintain a compost - the chicken dome just works so well, especially when I have no time to be digging compost all the time.
We are getting to the time now where the garden is about to explode with life, this year I'm more organised, hooray!
:) Ruth

At 9:44am on July 23, 2008, Johanna K said…: HI Cally - great to see you here too! I loved reading your blog by the way!!!

At 4:20am on July 23, 2008, Pippa said…: wow Cally that is a huge compliment considering you are something of a mentor to me. (A female mentor has been a very rare thing in my life)

At 5:56pm on July 21, 2008, Ren said…: Hey Cally,

I was a regular at Unschooling Discussion back in the day...no longer though.

I know you from IT..you sent me a very sweet woven ATC, Maori style.:) We were both part of the first circle journal too.

At 4:30pm on July 21, 2008, Shell (in NZ) said…: Good morning :0)

At 1:10pm on July 21, 2008, Shell (in NZ) said…: lol- I pretended to be J yesterday while he was on the computer...this is what he does to me atm. I'm "allowed" 5-10 mins every so often, and then while I'm trying to concentrate...he hovers. He'll say, "Is it my turn now?" 50 times, and when it;s not working, and I'm feeling exasperated because I can't think properly, he'll lie on the floor, kicking the chair (gently), and asking the same thing over and over.

He didn't appreciate it being done to him, but seemed to not recognise that that *might* be how I felt about the matter.

I hope you get a "normal" day today :0)