Unschooling Till It Hurts
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
How We Unschool: Singing, Dancing, and NaNoWriMo
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
What the Best-Dressed Daleks are Wearing
So my adorable nine-year-old daughter decided to be an evil, soulless killer robot for Halloween. Specifically, a Dalek, one of the most feared creatures in the Whoniverse. (That is, the Doctor Who Universe.) Turning Dalek How do you turn this … … Read More
Can Unschooling Be Scheduled?
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
How We Unschool: Mining, Building, Exploring!
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
When Strewing Is Successful
“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
Saying Yes: DIY Cake Decorating
Mica is having a (much delayed) birthday party and instead of a decorated cake or cupcakes, she wanted brownies and ice cream. But the brownies had to be baked in cupcake papers! Plus we needed plenty of icing and paraphernalia Read More
Wordless Wednesday: Sunset
Got this one with my phone, y’all.
Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly and Colorblindness, Oh My!
My father wears shades of blue almost exclusively. That’s because my mother always bought his clothes in shades of blue. And that is because neither of them wanted her to have to dress him every morning – she didn’t much want to Read More
Just Wing It: Being Colorblind
Colter is colorblind and is pestered by his friends who want him to identify colors for him. Okay, and we his family do it sometimes too! My previous post discusses colorblindness.