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Monthly Archives: November 2011
The latest fad in high end, high cost education is….?
Hey, you know what’s a great toy? Blocks. Just wooden blocks of all shapes and sizes. What, you knew that already? Did you know that many kids really like to play with them? That some kids can come up with … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Parenting, School, Unschooling
Tagged aesthetics, architecture, Ben, block consultant, blocks, education, learning, life learning, math, NY Times, play, science, test, unschooling
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Peter Gray on Why Kids Protest Going to School, & some other great stuff
I found out about Peter Gray’s article from some of my new friends on Twitter. Twitter has put me in touch with a much larger homeschooling/unschooling community than ever before. For a long time I kind of groaned when anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged All Over the Map, Buehler Education, education, homeschooling, Iggy Jingles Crafts, learning, life learning, Peter Gray, podcast, The Homeschool Coop, tweeps, twitter, Unplugged Mom, unschooling
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Hanging with history – Guthrie style
Arlo Guthrie would probably brush off any mention of his music being a part of the fabric of America as an exaggeration. He would defer to his father Woody’s influence, or that of his friend Pete Seeger. And while I … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Abe Guthrie, Amy Nelson, Annie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, Cathy Guthrie, folk music, Folk Uke, G'Babes, history, Johnny Irion, learning, ledbelly, life learning, Maya, Pete Seeger, Rising Song Records, Sarah Lee Guthrie, unschooling, Woody Guthrie, Xavier
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Carnegie Hall & Arlo Guthrie
It’s that time of year again. Tonight Maya and I are headed to that cathedral of great music, Carnegie Hall. There is a scene in the movie “Music of the Heart” where Meryl Streep’s character is welcomed to Carnegie Hall … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Arlo Guthrie, Bernstein, Carnegie Hall, family, gordon lightfoot, Guthrie Family, Heifetz, Isaac Stern, learning, life learning, Meryl Streep, music, Music of the Heart, Rachmaninoff, sweet honey in the rock, Tchaikovsky, unschooling
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Real life experience trumps school….again
As I was getting caught up on the NY Times (3 days’ worth that had found their way to the couch where I write in the evenings) I came across this article in yesterdays’ Home section about 19 year old … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Learning, Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged education, FIT, interior design, learning, life learning, NY Times, Sam Allen, school, school brain, unschooling
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I had a lot of stuff I thought about writing tonight – Thanksgiving as a tradition and all the ways it is celebrated, but after a day full of food and friends, I find my brain just wants to rest. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling, holidays
Tagged family, friends, health, learning, life learning, New York City, thanksgiving, unschooling
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Life choices and Breaking Dawn
Yes, you read that correctly. Breaking Dawn. As in the 4th installment in the Twilight franchise. Breaking Dawn is the book (and the film) in which the lead characters Edward and Bella marry and while on their honeymoon Bella gets … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling
Tagged bella, bill condon, Breaking Dawn, dan quayle, edward, ew, family values, juno, learning, life choices, life learning, Lisa Schwarzbaum, murphy brown, stephanie meyer, twilight, unschooling
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Unschooling is not a methodology
One of the problems in discussing unschooling with people is that they expect it to be a ‘method by which we educate our children’. And such an expectation is not unreasonable, because the idea that children can grow and learn … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged books, cooking, education, frankenstein, homeschooling, kitchen, learning, life learning, literature, math, methodology, science, unschooling, wendy priesnitz
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Blame it on Mercury
Ok, so I now have an explanation for why my friends have been flaking out, my Nook seems to have disappeared into thin air (seriously – like it was part of a magic trick in my apartment; there one minute, … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Parenting, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, learning, life learning, Maya, mercury, nook, unschooling
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