Unschooling is so far removed from societal norms that it’s hard to comprehend unless you are doing it. No. It’s impossible to comprehend unschooling unless you are doing it. I will take that a step further and say it is not possible to understand unschooling unless you have been doing it for a long time….
Category: Happy Unschooling Life
How Unschooling Works in Our Family (and Not Back to School)
I just spent almost an hour sitting here with Sydney talking about the She-Ra reboot (It. Is. AWESOME!). We are about to finish season 4. People might have a hard time understanding that we are Unschooling while we watch the show, even though all we are doing is watching with joy. No teaching. No “teachable…
Big Little Unschooling World: What Can Happen When You Learn to Unschool Well
When you learn to Unschool fully -and well- there is a place you live where there is nothing to prove. No explanations are needed. No descriptions. Both suddenly and slowly, you notice that a week has gone by and you haven’t thought about learning separate from life. You’ve spent those days asking your son to…
Unschoolers Don’t Know What They’re Missing and Isn’t that the Point?
I was sitting in the living room in front of the fire tonight on one of the last really cold nights of winter. My daughter was snuggled in the corner seat next to me. My husband was on the other side of me and my son was on the chaise next to him. We were…
Video Games are as Important to Learning as Music, In My Experience
Currently, my kids are big into music. They listen to it, play it, read about it, watch it, and talk about it. My son plays his guitar for at least five hours a day, usually more like eight. He has never had a single lesson. My daugther plays the drums every single day. She takes…
One Specific Way Home/Unschooling Learning Has Changed Since March
The museums, library, park days, music lessons, riding lessons, time with friends… we homeschoolers lost those along with everyone else. Today though, I got some serious and specific clarity about how our life is lacking since March. Today our guinea pig was at the vet. As we sat in the parking lot waiting for Daisy to…
Please Call it Pandemic Schooling, School at Home, or Remote Learning, Not Homeschooling, Here’s Why:
As we start off the weirdest school year in our collective history, I want to share an important differentiation. At first, you may wonder why it’s even worth noting. I will explain why it matters to me. Remote learning, in person school with masks and physical distancing, a hybrid model, and parents joining the ranks…
Living Without School and Learning All the Time
We don’t do school. Ever. Not during a pandemic. Not before the pandemic. We won’t when this is all over. We live life together. We play, explore, and indulge all the curiosities we want. We have fun. We prioritize happiness. We sleep when we are tired, eat when we are hungry, and veg out when…
This Homeschool Mom Can’t Help you Pandemic School, Even if I Wish I Could
Over the past five months I have found myself crawling under a rock. I was laughing with a friend last week saying I think I have talked less about homeschooling in the last five months than ever in our homeschool lives. When schools first shut down I tried to be as helpful as I could…
5 Things I Appreciate About Unschooling from a Mom of Tweens/Teens
When we first decided to homeschool I didn’t even know what it was. I pictured families in matching denim jumpsuits with super conservative and narrow minded values. I had no idea that there are all kind of people who homeschool for all kinds of reasons. The reasons we started out homeschooling were so simple compared…