Okay, tell me if this rings a bell… My kids are all playing happily as I head to the shower. In under five minutes, I’ve got one in the shower with me, another keeping me company perched on the potty, and the other two hovering just outside the bathroom door. I can’t remember the last […]
Happy Birthday! Academics Unschooling Style
Unschooling parents don’t set out to teach academics. But that doesn’t mean academics is missing in action. It shows up in some pretty unusual places. At our house, it recently put in an appearance at a birthday party. When Thomas, my oldest, turned one I planned a fabulous duckie party. For my twins, it was […]
Real Life Learning: Project Tie-Dye
If you’ve read my post about contagious enthusiasm, you already know that my family had a bit of a tie-dye adventure a while back. What began as a simple activity grew into a major project. This is where following a child’s passion can take you! After a morning of tie-dying their own stuff, my kids […]
Unschooling: Contagious Enthusiasm
I love when a seemingly ordinary activity takes a serendipitous turn. Last week, it turned out to be tie-dye. I’ve had a tie-dye kit in our bin of activities for over a year. Now and again we toss around the idea of trying it out, but have never actually gotten to it. That’s partly my […]
Cooking: Finding the Academics in Everyday Activities
Unschoolers are learning all the time. They learn because they are hard-wired to do so. Whenever they are engaged in an activity, you can be sure learning is happening. It’s a natural side-effect of doing something we’re interested in. The longer I practice unschooling, the easier it gets to see the academics my kids are […]