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Park Day with friends!

Filed Under: cleaning, fussing, playing

Yesterday we enjoyed a steaming hot day at the park with a local homeschooling boy and his mom. Here are some of the sights that greeted us there: Babies! Sweet babies! “Cheeseburger Happy Meal, please!” I don’t even know what to say about this one. He looks so sweet and yet devilish at the same time! The weather here has…
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Unschooling Resources

Filed Under: griping, unschooling

I belong to a Yahoo group called Unschooling Resources and one of the topics of discussion today was about another Yahoo group to which I belong, Unschooling Basics. One member, we’ll call her “Lucy” was advising another to stay as far away from Unschooling Basics as possible. They’re letting their children run wild and watch porn, for heaven’s sake. At…
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Natural Science Center day

Filed Under: fun, unschooling, zoo

After spending the morning watching “Wishbone” episodes on DVR and waiting for the rain to stop, we made it out to the local Natural Science Center in the afternoon. It’s an awesome place chock full of things to do. They added a zoo this year and, while I really get sad seeing animals locked up, it IS cool to be…
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New things to learn

Filed Under: projects, unschooling

In addition to having a desire to make their own video games, the boys have suddenly developed an interest in movie-making as well. The idea was inspired by a boy named Ricky on You Tube who has filmed his Mario and Luigi toys on all kinds of adventures. Iain and Ryan have watched these so many times that they know…
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Park Play!

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We went to a park today and had so much fun! Iain went all the way across the monkeybars and was so proud of himself! Ryan got to play in the sandbox and had an absolute ball. I got to play with my camera so I was happy as a pig in you-know-what. Great day!