unschooling

  • “Do The Next Thing”: A Curriculum

    Image: Neil Cooper “Classical relaxed unschooling” sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But it describes our CURRENT style of homeschooling so well. Notice I said CURRENT; I’m not the same homeschooler I used to be when we got started 18+ years… Continue reading

  • How I Didn’t Teach Science

    A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, “How do you teach science?” I told her the truth. “I don’t.” There was a time, years ago, when I would have been embarrassed to say that, because I would… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, October 2015

    Curriculum “after the fact” What Nino read the past couple of months or so. He’ll be 7 in December, so I guess this is around first grade? Right now our 13-year-old does a combo of unschooling/homeschooling/co-op schooling, so whenever I’m… Continue reading

  • Help! We’re having a baby! How do I homeschool the toddler/older child(ren)?

    [I wrote this post a year ago because a friend who was new to homeschooling AND was expecting a baby wanted to know how she could possibly homeschool when the demands on her time potentially could be endless. Reposting it… Continue reading

  • How I Didn’t Teach Science

    A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, “How do you teach science?” I told her the truth. “I don’t.” There was a time, years ago, when I would have been embarrassed to say that, because I would… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, October 2014

    Religion The Monk Who Grew Prayer New Catholic Children’s Bible – he reads this on his own Catholic Children’s Treasure Box Books – he now reads these on his own, and asked me for sacrifice beads, though he hasn’t used… Continue reading

  • Nino’s Kindergarten Curriculum, 2013-2014

    WHAT WE DID AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO At the beginning of the year, I thought of putting together a Kindergarten curriculum for Nino (4 1/2)…. I had bought a really neat book using 26 letters, but… Continue reading

  • How I Didn’t Teach Science :D

    A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, “How do you teach science?” I told her the truth. “I don’t.” Read the rest here. Continue reading

  • Unschooling Resources

    From the 4Real Forums: What Is Unschooling?: ” We choose to live in ways that keep us conected and involved in each other’s day to day lives. ..We believe that learning will happen in its own time and is not… Continue reading

  • “In-Spite-of-Mom” Schooling

    A friend at our Catholic Filipino homeschooling forum asked, “What is unschooling?” In years past I’ve shied away from answering this question because the pioneers already have, and I didn’t feel I had anything to contribute. Of course this was… Continue reading