DIY Field Trip

Leave kids to their own devices and they’ll come up with some great stuff—like a trip to the local police station!

The Incredible True Story of: UNSCHOOLING on a BAD DAY

Unschooling has taught me this much: it’s not all about me—the kids are alright.

We Cannot Teach our Kids to Compete with Machines

I remember watching a video of Chinese entrepreneur, Jack Ma, speaking a couple of years ago and the message has stuck with me. He was criticizing the education systems of the world for being too focused on teaching kids to do tasks that a computer could do much better. He said that if we want […]

Unschooling+Technology=RULE THE WORLD

With the world at their fingertips, what child has time for school?

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.

Photo Journal

Another quick post, because I took a picture this morning, and then took a few more. So for you today I have: a photo journal of unschooling on January 11th: This morning, L asked to do yoga, which means following along Cosmic Kids on YouTube. G and F and even the baby joined in. They […]

This Week in Unschooling

This is unschooling this week: Recently I really got into the soundtrack of the Broadway musical Hamilton, and after lamenting that I wish I could just see the storyline so I’d understand better what was going on when I listened, my husband Brad found this this video, and we watched the whole thing. Since then, […]

Observe, Act, Observe, Reevaluate

I was talking to a friend the other day about changes that have been in the works in our local school system. I didn’t know this, but apparently for a few years now the elementary schools have been working under a new grading system, where they don’t rank the children by numbers or letters. Instead, […]

My Kids Don’t Have Chores, Here’s Why:

So in general I am a laissez faire type of mom. I started out that way beginning with my first pregnancy and have become even more so as time goes on and I see with hindsight how many things were not worth the worry I put into them. One of the things I don’t […]

I Was Unschooled and I Didn’t Know It

The weird thing about unschooling is that the name is kind of terribly misrepresentative–unschooling isn’t about school at all. It’s about believing that learning happens naturally, all the time, and that if natural learning is fostered, then it continues unrepressed forever. So “unschooling” isn’t just a thing that children do in lieu of school. It’s […]