Archive for category unschooling

night night baby bagel.

this woman unschooled. it looked a little different than my unschooling with one of her kids…because all unschooling is different–as different as the children involved–but…she unschooled. go watch it. seriously.  i have to go write quarterly reports. (what? they were only due a month and a half ago. jeez.)(ugh.)

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play.

more unschooling thoughts…there are always more, of course, but…in an effort to keep you up to date with my thinking…today my friend Ralph referred me to this article. Dr. Peter Gray, research bio-psychologist, has some wise, wise words. and while my children may be out of the official “play” stage as one would think of […]

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purpose.

in the past three weeks, i have challenged my kids to think pretty deeply about who they are. what they like. what they love. who they want to be some day.  i have encouraged them to dream. picture their lives 5 years from now. 10 years from now. think about the people they know whom […]

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so far.

so. we’re a week and a half in. we are still alive. i feel this, in itself, is an accomplishment. here is what my kids are doing:   Bryson is spending a lot of time building. and, umm, building some more. yesterday, he found the supplies on Garry’s Mod to build a hovercraft, figured out […]

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reaction.

this morning, as we puttered around the kitchen over breakfast and baby and dog interruptions and simmering stir fry, Bryson commented, “it feels like Saturday.” he sat finishing up his chocolate chip pancakes and laughing about how sore his abs were from the pull-ups and push-ups he did on Monday (out of his norm, but […]

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conversation.

some interesting things happen when you open yourself up to (mostly) uninterrupted time with your kids. time when you’re not nagging them to finish science or hounding them about the math assignment they’ve been putting off, or scolding them for not completing their chores when it’s 8:30 and time to sit down for class. all […]

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controversy.

there is this little part of me that really enjoys stirring up trouble. it’s actually kind of funny to think that’s true, because i was always the good girl. always the one my parents didn’t have to worry about. my grades were above average, i didn’t push the boundaries, i didn’t break curfew or talk […]

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processing.

with any research endeavor, the biggest job of getting from what you know now to what you want to know involves sifting through the vast enormity of information available on the topic. as with any Google search, i am overwhelmed by the amount of information found where i started–the very broad topic of “unschooling” (also, the […]

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