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 →
Tag Archives: happiness
Bargain Benefits
If you want to feel rich, count the things you have that money can’t buy. Soon after our daughter was born, I chose to leave my 14-year corporate career to stay at 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 →
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 →