Thoughts on rules
As a parent, I put a lot of thought into rules, maybe more than most. This may surprise many of my friends and family, since what they saw from the Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: learning
Unschool Parenting 101
It’s August. School is either about to start or has already started where you are. If you’re unschooling, life doesn’t change much except for the reappearance of school buses and Continue Reading →
Librarians
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. –Willard Scott Libraries have always held a special place for Continue Reading →
One Smart Apple
Yesterday afternoon, I felt hungry and wandered into the kitchen for a snack. I grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl. It not only looked appealing, but that sweet, crunchy, Continue Reading →
Year-round freedom
Lots of people would ask me if I gave my kids the summer “off”, which always amused me. This question gets right to the heart of the difference between schooling and child-directed learning. Continue Reading →
Proofreading hope
A few weeks ago I found Pat Farenga’s blog and read through a few of his most recent posts. Pat worked closely with John Holt at Growing Without Schooling, the newsletter Continue Reading →
Strategies
Recently I was playing a board game with four elementary-school-aged kids each teamed with their volunteer Big Brother or Big Sister. I noticed at each turn that three of the Continue Reading →
Love of learning
A child who is learning naturally, following his curiosity where it leads him, adding to his mental model of reality whatever he needs and can find a place for, and Continue Reading →
Choice words
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose Continue Reading →
Visions
While volunteering with some young girls recently, we were given an exercise to create a vision board. Materials provided were colored construction paper for our “board”, scissors, glue sticks and Continue Reading →