What can they learn from ______? <insert video game or tv show or whatever most people consider “not educational” – pick your favorite non-educational thing and talk about what YOUR kids learned from it. :D->
Tag: how unschooling works
Just Another Ordinary (Extraordinary) Day
Some days just seem so ordinary – but if we have eyes to see, the extraordinary will appear.
- Miss 9 was awake watching television when I got up …
… She was also looking at a diary and last year’s calendar, and was using her new blue clipboard (a longed-for acquisition). She seemed deeply engrossed but slowly managed to raise her head from her paper world, and the questions began: “Mum, how do you spell February?” “Mum, how many days are in March?” Which naturally progressed to discussions about leap years, the history of calendars, and a little rhyme I learned as a child, to help with remembering how many days were in each month. Continue Reading
Our Unschooled Friday
We’ve been unschooling since the last millennium. (Wow, that sounds impressive, but really isn’t.) When my second son was born in 1999, I decided I didn’t want to miss any more of the daily discoveries of my two boys, so I left the corporate world and embraced an entirely new lifestyle.
Our unschooling day in 2012 of course doesn’t look like it did in 1999. Actually our unschooling day today doesn’t look like it did yesterday. Unschooling means we meet our needs at the moment, and our needs are constantly changing. Continue Reading