Archive for the 'Beginnings' Category
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
I’ve been so blessed to have an amazing journey of learning through understanding and supporting my children as they find their passion and purpose in life. As I matured in this knowledge, my friend Rebecca (who I met on an on-line forum!) from Illinois and associated with the In-Home Conference for their state, asked if […]
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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.
Let […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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, […]
Posted in Interests, Adulthood, Transitions, Beginnings, Right-Brained/Visual-spatial Learners, Homeschooling | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Wow! 2007 has been a blur for me. So much has happened that has kept me from blogging as faithfully as I did the year before. And now 2008 approaches. I wonder what it holds!? I have hardly had a breath to consider my thoughts, goals, or desires for the […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
My hubby and I are about to leave later today to bring our oldest, firstborn son out West to serve as a full-time missionary for two years in declaring the good news to those in the northern Utah, southern Idaho, and Star Valley, Wyoming areas that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to […]
Posted in Transitions, Beginnings, Family | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Over at Thinking Things Through there is a post called Product vs. Process which talks about Christine’s dilemma as a homeschooling parent over feeling a strong need to have a product after every learning experience, whether because of her teacher training or proving to others an education is happening.
This is a battle I’m constantly having […]
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
Usually when a title with product and process is involved, there is a “versus” in the middle. Product OR process is what the versus implies. I don’t think that’s how people work, and I know it’s not how I work. There is a product AND a process. There is always a product involved . . […]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
This is the “final chapter” on my thoughts on the post that JoVe from Tricotomania wrote called “Contemplations on the School Year.”
In her post, JoVe considers how the impact of the school schedule can possibly migrate to the way we look at progression and grade classification with this comment:
I suspect that this calendar pressure also […]
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