Posts Tagged ‘Deschooling’

A Quiet Aha Moment

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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 the beach [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Are we done deschooling now?

I remember holding onto the false idea that “deschooling” should take one month per year of schooling, doubled if they went to Pre-K. What a load of sh*t. That’s my first advice to any new home/unschoolers. Forget a timeline for deschooling. It’s crap. Take your time. You’ve got plenty of it. I doubt we’re done yet. But [...]