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WE ARE UNSCHOOLERS

(Disclaimer: I respect all parents’ educational choices. There are many alternatives to education. This article is not meant to be critical or even persuasive, it is simply our personal journey. Enjoy.)

“Unschooling?! Isn’t that just for the liberal, atheist, hippy type of homeschoolers?”

Or, at least, that’s what I asked myself the first time I heard…

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Added by Morgan Hancock on January 11, 2013 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

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

Fall Reading

They each have magazine subscriptions they have chosen and an important event each day is the walk to the mailbox to see if anything has come for them. Which one is in charge of this task is rotated, but both of them almost always go together regardless of whose turn it is. When a new issue comes, often they don't manage to return to the house for some hours. Here is where I found them this evening.…

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Added by Scott on October 7, 2010 at 4:27pm — 4 Comments

Hair Issues

Many unschooling families eventually face the issue of children's hair choices. Should they comb it, wash it, braid it, shave it, color it, cut it? One's hair style does project a message and there are many assumptions that…

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Added by Scott on October 3, 2010 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Getting Beyond the Age Factor

I have read many stories of home-schooled children accomplishing beyond what is expected of young people at young ages. I want to give my daughter a chance for developing this type of confidence - something neither my husband nor myself received when we attended school at her age. There is much we have had to teach ourselves! We have been encouraging her natural creativity, and her curiosity expands in all directions. Yesterday evening she noticed that there were rain droplets… Continue

Added by Karen S Gault on March 15, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

JOY

Joy! Joy is what brings me here. Freedom is the touchstone of life in our family. And we love it. Each day is an exciting adventure into the unknown...

THAT, is the business of truly living!

We chose out of the institutionalize way of life as a family several years ago.

I, person.ally, have chosen a life of wholehearted devotion to LOVE. Love, therefore, is the center-point from which the perspective, attitudes and subsequent actions of my life unfold.

This True point of… Continue

Added by Danét on December 5, 2009 at 6:24am — 2 Comments

Letting kids be themselves

I have been letting the kids figure out for themselves what they need to do without interfering in their process.

Funny thing is that I thought I was already doing this, however when i REALLY let go, I discovered something pretty incredible ,,, how much I DID interfere! lol.

So, for instance going for a walk used to mean that we all had to go, as it was best to get outside and get some exercise. But this past winter, I was met with Such resistance, that the giant pit in my… Continue

Added by inspiredej on March 25, 2009 at 8:34am — 2 Comments