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 →
learning without boundaries by Jean Nunnally
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →