CafeMom recently posted “7 Reasons I’d Never Homeschool My Teen” by Ericka Sóuter. It’s not mean-spirited or anything, but it is ignorant … almost willfully so, since the points made are so well-refuted in so many places it seems like Read More
Reading is a deep and abiding passion in my life. “Read early and read often” is pretty much my life’s motto. So teaching my children to love reading has always been very high on my list of homeschooling priorities. Thankfully Read More
Shamus Young, author of How I Learned, was labeled “learning disabled” back before that was a trendy thing. He was sent to special ed classes and heavily medicated for much of his childhood. On his own time, he discovered an Read More
There are lots and lots of right ways to unschool … as many as there are unschooling families! And there aren’t many wrong ways to do it, except one I can think of: unschooling until it hurts. To understand what Read More
Have we been BUSY around here! Okay, mostly me, the chauffeur. The four kids get to rotate activities, but I have to take at least a small part in each and every one! 1 ~ First we have our speeches. Colter Read More
Do the words “unschooling schedule” constitute an oxymoron? No! Sometimes a schedule is the only way for an unschooling mom to survive, especially when her unschooled children choose to participate in a wide variety of what might be called extracurricular Read More
1 ~ “This is so cool.” [40 seconds later] “Okay, this is SO cool.” [30 seconds later] “This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!” This AND MORE LIKE IT from my ten-year-old son, after I referred him to CodeAcademy, billed as Read More
“Strewing” is the practice of leaving interesting things in your children’s path to spark their interest. Unschoolers tend to swear by it! Over at the Christian Unschooling blog we’re exploring the topic of strewing this month. Aadel discussed how strewing is like sowing Read More
Here’s how we unschool lately! 1 ~ Time … okay, past time … for Noa to learn to drive! She will be 17 this fall, and earlier this week she finally went in for her learner’s permit. I gave her the first driving Read More
There are a lot of varied opinions about homeschooling, but one that persists is a belief that unschooling is not something good Christians would or should do. The claim is that it is unbiblical somehow. Apparently because God is a Read More