Unschooling Blog
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Trusting our Children
Trusting our children is the opposite of controlling our children. Trusting our children is enabling them and empowering them. Providing them with a safe place that they can try out their ideas and practice making decisions. For example: We trust them to make...
It’s Playtime
It’s okay to let our children play all day. As a seasoned home educator and unschooler, I have been faced with the reality of having my children at home all day, every day and being responsible for their learning. Of course, there are some differences between my...
Living a joy-filled life
You might be forgiven for thinking that our household is without it's miserable moments. That, dear friends, would be unrealistic. Any household with humans in it is likely to experience moments of discord, either experienced individually or corporately. However, they...
Choose Joy
Why do we choose joy? Why do we choose to do things that make us happy? Why do we choose to allow our children to spend all day, every day playing? Why do we allow them to have so much fun? It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless...
Support Joy
Comparison is the thief of joy Theodore Roosevelt When we begin Unschooling and move purposefully into a life without school we can easily find ourselves wondering what our children would have learnt if they had been at school today. When my children were younger, we...
Seek Joy
It seems strange to have to say it at all but it needs saying, repeatedly. Seek joy. It's okay to do things that make your children happy. The thing that makes them laugh, do more of that. The thing that makes them smile, do more of that. The thing that makes their...
Unschooling Reading and Maths: Challenging our Fears
Unschooling, in its most basic form, is living a life without school. It challenges us, as adults, to consider what learning looks like without school and whether conventional methods of tuition are necessary for learning to occur. Often our deepest assumptions are...
Fostering Relationships in Our House
In our house putting our relationships first looks like: Making sure that I spend 1:1 time with each of my children, if they want it. This week I have researched how to detangle doll hair and create a Barbie salon with my five year old. We conditioned and combed out...
Trusting the Learning Process (Part Two)
Trusting the learning process is essential to Unschooling success. Shifting our perspective on what learning looks like and challenging our experiences and often deeply held beliefs on how children learn will help us move towards being able to better support our...
