It’s been almost three and a half years since Zeb has been out of school. And it’s been five years since he decided – with the negative encouragement from some very poor art teachers at the age of five – to believe he wasn’t an artist. In fact, until last week, there were three truths [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Deschooling’
A Quiet Aha Moment
. I had some thoughts last night as I was falling asleep. Nothing too remarkable to anyone but me, I’m sure, but ones that I want to get down in print anyway. I’m not sure what jogged my mind but I suddenly remembered an incident from two years ago. We had gone on a vacation to [...]
Juggling Emotions, His and Mine
A week and a half ago, Zeb had a pretty scary fall. He and Justin were rough-housing, Zeb jumped onto his dad’s back, and Justin started swinging him around. Within seconds Zeb went from laughing to screaming as he fell about 4 feet onto our concrete floor. His arms and shoulder mostly broke the fall [...]
I thought this was an unschooling blog?!
I just looked through my most recent (and not so recent) posts and realized that for a supposed unschooling blog, I’m certainly lacking in inspirational posts about my child. Heck, I’ve barely mentioned him! Bad mama! I do have a reason though. And it’s not that he’s been up to “nothing”. It’s actually that he’s [...]
On Our Own Today
Zeb made the choice last week to quit our local Life Learners (unschooling) groups. I’m sorta the leader but I didn’t worry about the logistics when my son was talking. He’s been making a lot of maturity strides and running into some walls along the way. Some of it seemed to be labels he was either [...]
