My husband Ted did not come to the unschooling life as quickly or as easily as I did. It was kind of a long road for him, with some serious doubts and struggles along the way. So it’s been very cool to watch as he has become increasingly confident in the unschooling philosophy and his ability to practice it. In fact, there are plenty of times now that I find I’m the one learning from him. Like the time he talked to Thomas about being a work in progress. [Read More...]
Unschooling: A Man of Few Words
June 29, 2012 by 6 Comments
Beatrix Potter on Originality
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. -Helen Beatrix Potter [Read More...]
Can Unschoolers Learn to Read?
June 24, 2012 by 12 Comments
When I was just hours old, I did something truly astonishing in my mother’s opinion. I managed to fill my diaper. Enthralled as only a first-time parent can be, my mom promptly called up her entire family. “She works!” my triumphant mother exclaimed. [Read More...]
Holt: What Schools Should Be
June 18, 2012 by 3 Comments
Schools should be a place where children learn what they most want to know, instead of what we think they ought to know. The child who wants to know something remembers it and uses it once he has it; the child who learns something to please or appease someone else forgets it when the need for pleasing or the danger of not appeasing is past. [Read More...]
They Sleep WHERE? Family CoSleeping in Middle Class America
June 17, 2012 by 4 Comments
Ask people what comes to mind when they imagine a family that sleeps all together in one room, and you basically get three images. Some envision a family living in a foreign country. Others picture the poverty-stricken – those reduced to sleeping together because of their financial woes. Still others see a post-hippie, super-alternative type of family. You know, fringe types who are quite possibly feeding magic brownies to their toddlers. [Read More...]
