On days like I’ve been having lately, when I feel like unschooling is the craziest thing I could do with my children, it really helps me get back on track when I read other unschoolers blogs. There are so many out there and it’s tons of fun to hop on the unschooling blog ring and jump from site to site….
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Panic Attack!
So I’ve heard of the phenomenon but had not until today, experienced it for myself. Veteran Unschoolers often describe moments of panic, feeling that one should drag out all the textbooks and worksheets, that one’s child is not keeping up with the Joneses educationally. That’s exactly how I’m feeling today. I think it’s tied to periods of time that are…
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Continuing the story
Well, it sure has been a while since anything was posted here! I guess it doesn’t really matter because I’m the only one who reads this anyway! This morning a post came into my mind and I jotted it down on paper to post here later. Here is what I wrote: At first blush, unschooling to many people seems like…
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Super Mario Bros.
Have I mentioned that the boys are big video game fans? They LOVE Sonic, Mario, Luigi, Link, Harry Potter and they are always begging me to make them costumes like their favorite characters. Well, a seamstress I am not and unfortunately we haven’t been able to locate too many kids costumes in the form of the video game characters. So…
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Learning Can Happen Anytime
This morning when the boys woke up and came downstairs, they were commenting on the fact that their noses were stuffed up. I told them that springtime can make that happen and they wanted to know why that was so. We had a lively conversation about pollen and it’s effects and I told them that as spring progressed they would…
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