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Category Archives: Homeschooling
The lazy myth
Anyone who is unschooling and has spoken about it with someone whose kids are in school has heard this one: “Oh, that would never work in our house. [Name of child] would never do anything but play video games and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Parenting, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, boredom, cleaning the office, education, excel spreadsheets, goals, lazy, learning, life learning, Maya, motivation, should, the lazy myth, unschooling
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Liberal? Conservative? Who cares?
Dana Goldstein believes that when children learn outside of school, it violates progressive values. You can read her article about it on your own, if you wish. I have no desire to print quotes from it here. Let me … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Dana Goldstein, dept. of education, education, education reformers, entrepreneurs, flooding the system, greater good, homeschooling, jobs project, John Holt, learning, life learning, progressive agenda, santorum, self-directed, unschooling
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Am I doing enough?
It’s the question that lurks in the back of every unschooling parent’s mind. Am I doing enough? Am I paying enough attention to my kids’ interests and doing enough to facilitate them? Are days spent playing on the computer, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling, math
Tagged approved, art, doubts, education, fractions, homeschooling, learning, life learning, lurking questions, music video, panic about math, physics, show and tell knowledge, standardized form, unschooling
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Unschooling parents
As a kind of follow up to yesterday’s post, I want to talk a little about parenting in an unschooling family. First of all let me say there is no one model that all unschoolers follow. Since unschooling … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Parenting, Unschooling
Tagged do unto others, Golden Rule, homeschooling, learning, life learning, parenting, privacy vs secret, unschooling, unschooling parents
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When anything is possible
You’ve probably all heard the phrase, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It would be more appropriate to say, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?” The first phrase looks nice on posters … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged anything is possible, education, Fear of failure, homeschooling, lack of fear, learning, life learning, unschooling
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Rebellion on the brain
You know how you’ll be going along, living your life, not thinking about any specific subject, and then a certain topic will be EVERYWHERE? Every place you turn, someone is talking about it? Right now that topic is teen … Continue reading
Broaden those horizons, stat!
What is the most important thing for kids to learn? After today, sitting next to two very nice but completely clueless college students, I’ve decided the answer to that question is: As much as possible about the world they … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged Bahamas, bahamian money, bohemian money, brazil, china, columbia, education, experience, homeschooling, india, learning, life learning, planet earth series, redwood forest, semester at sea, stanford, the amazon, unschooling, world as classroom
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Laughter IS the best medicine
No, it can’t cure everything. But it can make you feel a lot better along the way. The week has been kind of heavy, to put it mildly, so on this cold and windy Friday the 13th, some laughter … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, dooce, geekblush, humor, joy, laughter, learning, life learning, Maya, mom-101, suri's burn book, twitter
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What we focus on
I’ll make this short. It is my firm belief that whatever we focus on is what we create. Our focus manifests itself as reality. Focus is not the same as observation. We can observe a thing without making … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged cheating teachers, education, failing schools, focus, learning, life learning, long held beliefs, tougher standards, unschooling
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