Elsie, at Elsie and Joe Deluxe, wrote a post called Keep Those Systems Off My Kids. I enjoyed the topic and it reminded me of a VERY important point about how I homeschool my children. She says this at the very end of the post:
But I am equally sure that there are teachers […]
Warning: Not for the faint of heart
How could a good unschooler resist documenting the birth of kittens? Not us! We decided to take in a pregnant mother cat that had been hanging around our church for a while now. She is really sweet, and a good mommy.
The children were SO […]
Over at Woodstone Prairie, Maura wrote about the discrimination of the mentally disabled, as well as the common word usages in the same category used flippantly to describe negative attributes. Interestingly, both just recently were part of a conversation as well as an experience today (again).
I was gone for the weekend with four of my […]
I came home yesterday and heard some instructional talk coming from behind the couch, which is William’s “quiet time area”. Hhmmm, what’s going on? I was excited to discover this:
I was excited for several reasons. First, there was a time when Eli eagerly sought out “pupils” for Lego instruction (and […]
At the beginning of the year, when I was reading various blog posts, I came across some great thoughts over at Loving Him 4 Ever. Interestingly, as I went to look up the reference, it appears a break has occurred for the blog author since writing this post. I hope there is more […]
I currently have two adult children, by society’s standards and their age identification process. My oldest recently turned 21, and my next will be 19 at the beginning of summer. Both have been unschooled all their lives. Both have found their passions. Both are working out their purpose.
Abbey, my only daughter, […]
Christine over at Thinking Things Through wrote a post about how she started to realize that she was still being parent-vested (or motivated) versus trusting that what emanates from within the child will be worthy of the time and space necessary for the process to evolve into what we are so conditioned to strive for: […]
Here I go trying to get my blogging habit going . . . again. Only time will tell when my efforts will stick I thought it would be fun to target various children in my focus for my posts if I don’t have a personal inspired thought for the day. Today, […]
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