Last night I saw my eldest son do something I never thought he would do. I was so proud!
He has just joined Civil Air Patrol, so he could learn how to fly. Well, last night they had a creative thinking exercise where they had to write 2 paragraphs describing how they thought the slinky [...]
I signed on a couple of months ago. I have a young son who has type 1 diabetes, he is 9 and I have been homeschooling 11 years.
I am burt out on homeschooling. Wanted to explore the unschooling world.
Someone (don’t remember who!) from this list told me “Just enjoy your son. If by the end [...]
My boys, 10 and 6, are keeping themselves so busy these days, I’m beginning to wonder if we are doing all this unschooling the right way?</B> I know, there is no exact right way, but you know what I mean. I read about people playing games with their kids and mine just as soon play [...]
To all those who worry that their teenagers, who sleep half the day away, will never learn to get up early to get to work, etc. Roya called me this morning (she’s 21 and recently moved in with her cousins into a big house, while we are living in a small apartment and waiting for [...]
My oldest daughter had a hard start in life starting with delivery. Preschool didn’t improve anything. She used to hide in cubby and wouldn’t come out. She didn’t play with the other kids. Stayed to herself. Her teacher recommended I keep a close eye on her and get her more involved with kids her age. [...]
Does anyone ever get to a place where they say, “Okay, I’ve *got* it. I’m a total unschooler, now.”?
Its starting to seem like this isn’t a “certain amount of learning to do and then you’re *there*”, but more of an ongoing, constantly evolving, changing process… and possibly different for each family, maybe even each member of said family? This is coming from someone who got very entrenched in rules and [...]
How is that home to college transition working for your daughter — unschooling to structured schooling, any problems we should be aware of?
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The unschooling to structured schooling was easy for her. She got her 4-year degree in 3.5 months with a number of extra classes thrown in for fun. She graduated summa cum laude in [...]
Here’s an interesting topic my 10 year son has raised. He brought it up again last night for about the 3rd time in the last month. He is perplexed. His question was basically this. “Why is that I don’t have any real rules, you don’t make me do things and you don’t punish me and [...]
Hello, I’m the mom of three happy unschoolers ages 13, 15 and 18.
I have VERY much appreciated this list and the inspiring insight of its leaders, (Thank you!) although in the past few years I’ve had less and less time (and less and less need) to read it regularly.
But I had to come in this [...]