Archive for October, 2008

“Senior Pictures” for Abbey

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Abbey laughed when she saw my previous post with the words “senior pictures” in quotes.  That’s because our “senior picture” timing is quite different from the mainstream tradition.  First, it seems to happen around 19 some time because that’s when the shift seems to occur for my children in moving away from the home-based lifestyle.
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Mother/Daughter

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Abbey chose to have me as one of her “special things” as part of her “senior pictures” portfolio. I’m so blessed to have a daughter who is my best friend.  I believe it is because of both how I parented her and the relationship I put first and foremost, as well as the beautiful spirit […]

Resistant Learners - LWOS Post

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

I am one of the authors over at Life Without School and the blog post I wrote went up and gone before I noticed to make mention of it.  This was one of those posts that wrote itself.  In my passion for the right-brained, creative learner, I have an adage that says:  They love to […]

Builder Art

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I have shared on this blog here and here how my artist son used this creative outlet as part of his process toward writing.  I also used drawing samples from my builder son in a traditional comic book format as well that depicted some of his process toward writing.  On my Homeschooling Creatively list, we […]

Learning vs. Schooling

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Does anyone else have a bunch of saved posts in the Post Writing section that you started and didn’t finish?  I do.  So, I decided to go through some of them and see what I found.  Apparently, I had taken a blurb from a post I had written on a list somewhere and copied it […]

Unschooling Transcripts

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

To continue from my previous post about my daughter’s natural path to attending college, I thought it would be interesting to share my responsibilities as the administrator of our homeschool as it pertains to the application process.  When my children were younger and we were just still in the young years of unschooling, I would periodically […]

A Natural Process to College

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

My hubby and I decided to continue trusting our philosophy with the natural stages of learning as our children transition into adulthood.  As noted in an earlier post, it did require that we continue our deconditioning of our current society’s expected “shoulds” at this stage.  The biggest one, obviously, is the college path.  Initially, my […]