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 →
Start with the simple
First do no harm. I’ve been asked to share some accumulated wisdom that I have used over the years with my own and my family’s health. Since my view of 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 →
I am enough.
All I am saying can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn Continue Reading →
100 years from now
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. This quote comes up for me each time I’m thinking about my Continue Reading →
Working backwards
“I wouldn’t have any idea what to teach without a curriculum.” A friend made this comment after I explained that, as unschoolers, we didn’t use a curriculum with our kids. Continue Reading →
Unschooling: learning naturally
“… the human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we are good at it; we don’t need to be shown how or made to do it. What Continue Reading →
Holding Space
I’ve been thinking a lot about holding space lately. No, it’s not a sci-fi term. Holding space means making emotional room for another person without filling up that room with Continue Reading →
How’s the water?
As David Foster Wallace reminded us, fish swim all their lives in water that they remain completely unaware of. We, too, are immersed in oceans of unconscious norms and beliefs that Continue Reading →