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April 2012 Blog Posts (3)

Unschoolers Can Fly

We started unschooling almost two years ago now, after my son attended a few weeks of first grade in a local public school. Unschooling-- which my son describes to people as "not following a curriculum and just doing whatever we feel like--" been pretty awesome. Awesome for him, which I expected, but also for the whole family, often in ways I…

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Added by Robin Stevenson on April 26, 2012 at 1:20am — 4 Comments

My little girl is nearly five years old. She has never been to school, kindergarten or any other “educational” establishment. She is growing up “at home”, with lots of friends of all ages and gets al…

My little girl is nearly five years old. She has never been to school, kindergarten or any other “educational” establishment. She is growing up “at home”, with lots of friends of all ages and gets along marvelously with older people, children and young adults. She is not familiar with the idea of “separating people according to their age, color or cultural differences” nor does she expect people to fit into her own perspective of “how they or things should be”. I marvel at her ability…

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Added by xristiana on April 6, 2012 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Unschooling them

http://unschoolingourselves.blogspot.com/2012/03/unschooling-them.html

unschooling them

Whether we decide to school, homeschool or unschool our children, we need to understand that schooling does not happen in the school establishment anyway. By the age of five or six, our…

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Added by xristiana on April 2, 2012 at 5:30am — 4 Comments