With the world at their fingertips, what child has time for school?
Unschooling+Technology=RULE THE WORLD
Is School Math a Waste of Time?
How long does it take a ten year old who’s done almost no curriculum to “catch up” with her schooled peers? Turns out: not long.
5 Things I Tell People who Are Considering Homeschooling
As an administrator of the local homeschooling group I often talk to people who are trying to decide whether to take their kids out of school. Many of these parents enrolled their kids in public school expecting that their child would make new friends, gain an education, and learn how to function in larger society... Continue Reading →
5 Things I Appreciate During “Back-to-School” Season
This week is the ninth anniversary of the day I decided not to send my oldest child to Kindergarten. Where do the years go! This year she would be going into grade 7, and my youngest, who wasn't even born yet at that time, would be starting grade 1. At this time of year, when... Continue Reading →
Flowers
Amy and I will have to give ourselves a collective slap on the wrist--not a single post in all of July! Summer does that to you, perhaps: a big jumbled mess of busy, languid; travel, lounging; visiting, reading--in a hammock. Always in a hammock! Today I biked to a provincial park in oppressive heat, then... Continue Reading →
Lemonade
Let's get schooly for a moment. Not that I think spending your life comparing yourself to others is a great plan, but when you're living alternatively, occasionally getting schooly has its benefits. It can help to validate one's own choices, and help others to understand said choices, by speaking their language. I come in peace.... Continue Reading →
Hypocrisy and All of It
Here's a thing about unschoolers: we are an incredibly amorphous group. You can't even fairly call us a group--we have no leader, no rule book; we're all over the map. All we have are ideas. Sure, those ideas started with one man, who put them into some great books, but there's still about a million ways to... Continue Reading →
The “Down” Months
I've felt a little AWOL lately, but with good reason: we bought a house. And we didn't just buy a house, we bought a house that needed a few (what seemed like a few when I listed them in my mind before actually doing them) upgrades before we moved in. Our possession date was February... Continue Reading →
Strewing
Today I got the first Life of Fred math book, "Apples", back from a friend who'd borrowed it, because five-year-old L had asked to start reading them together. I haven't read them at all since November when I finally noticed I was killing the joy of math in E by pushing it. I think the... Continue Reading →
5 Year Old Scientist
"Every kid starts out as a natural boorn scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact." -Carl Sagan Last week my 5 year old came in the house with a brown, dry ball of dead hydrangea flowers from last summer.... Continue Reading →
The Unschool Sisters 