I’m SO excited! Today in the mailbox were two books that I ordered a couple of days ago upon recommendations from some unschooling boards to which I belong. The first is Freedom – Not License! and it’s written by a man who was a headmaster of a school in England and explains how to give your children freedom without allowing…
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Deep breath in….exhale
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Ok, so in the substantially more than 30 years that I have been on this earth it has been said that I tend to make things more difficult than they need to be and indeed, it seems as though that is what I have been doing with the concept of unschooling. After taking a few days to clear my head…
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Should it be this hard?
Filed Under: parenting, unschooling
Well, I have to admit that lately I have really been struggling with unschooling. It’s so much harder to do because it’s not the original intent I had when I became a parent. Moments with my youngest son really tend to test my committment to this way of life as well. He’s so excited that he doesn’t get yelled at…
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Stomach bugs!
Filed Under: sick, unschooling
A couple of weeks ago we all suffered through a stomach bug and were so glad when it was all gone. Well, imagine my surprise today when Iain woke up with another stomach bug! We had to reschedule a dentist appointment that had already been postponed once because I sprained my ankle and couldn’t get him there. Now Iain has…
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A New Beginning
Filed Under: parenting, unschooling
Yesterday and today have been really good days here. Sean listened to the “audio book” I made for him and we’re both totally in agreement that Radical Unschooling is they way we want to live and parent. We both also feel that it’s not going to be easy to release the years of training we received from our own parents…
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