Two Canadian sisters, nine spectacular kids, no school.
Guys, I've been writing/complaining lately about how my homeschool group has been shrinking and becoming lame. Well, I've been pumping myself full of vitamin D and I finally feel ready to come up with some solutions instead of just feeling sad about it. Today's post has 2 problems and 2 solutions. Problem 1 The free... Continue Reading →
I wish their were a better word for the lifestyle we live. Unschooling is the most widely known and used term, but the word has some PROBLEMS. For one thing, it already had a meaning before John Holt used it to describe the educational philosophy we follow and it was NOT GOOD. Check out this... Continue Reading →
So, my second son who's almost eight is figuring out arithmetic and it's pretty fantastic. Here's how it looks: Earlier in 2017, this little boy couldn't count to twenty without getting lost in the teens, but within the last couple of months he has become really fascinated with numbers. I noticed that he began to... Continue Reading →
If you choose not to send your kids to school, one aspect of your success as an unschooling family will be to find a community. In big cities this isn't a problem. There are tons of homeschooling and unschooling families. But I live in a small town, and while there are a number of homeschooling... Continue Reading →
I think a lot of people have a hard time imagining how a day works when you're an unschooling family. I thought I'd tell you about my day today. This is how a Tuesday works: 6:00 am: Seven year old son comes into our room and wakes us up. Husband goes downstairs to spend some... Continue Reading →
Dear stay-at-home parents who send their kids to school, You're doing it backwards! If you think about it, by the time your kid is ready for school, you've done a lot of the hardest, most tiring work of parenting. Your four or five year old is walking, talking, and has pretty good hand-eye coordination. They're... Continue Reading →
If you don't teach your kids to read, will they be illiterate for life? There has been a lot written by other unschoolers addressing this topic. Sandra Dodd has a good little collection of anecdotes here. And Dr. Peter Gray wrote this article on the subject. Here's how it worked for us: My oldest is... Continue Reading →
Throwback to the year 2008 when I was living in Edmonton and I only had two kids: a two year old and a baby. I had just found a new playgroup that met down the street from me which was run in the cheerfully decorated downstairs of a small house. This playgroup was different from the... Continue Reading →
The Unschool Sisters 