ElementalMom

Aaaaaaaaaaaand here we go again!

The Lesson of Failure

This one was about an event that happened over 20 years ago. How weird, the little things that stick in your head…

Tags: LWOS, school

It’s clear I haven’t been blogging much by how my LWOS announcements stack up. And lest anyone harangue me for working on those posts instead of Aurora’s birthstory, I wrote the LWOS posts up while I was still pregnant. So there. Anyway, this post is a fun one, about something astonishingly cool that Rowan did.

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/07/upside-down-and.html

Tags: dyslexia, LWOS, Reading, Unschooling

Because it really does work this way. An unschooling post not about the boys, but about Jason and Marc.

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/06/history-sucks.html

Tags: 300, Frank-Miller, Life-Without-School, LWOS, Thermopylae

The Amazing California Health and Happiness (Homeschooling) Roadshow

This was a fun one to write, having to do with the insanity of trying to make homeschooling illegal in CA.

More fun tirades from me about Digital Natives!

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/04/digital-natives.html

Enjoy!

Here we go:

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/03/the-boys-projec.html

Lately, I’ve been looking more at underlying assumptions, and less at the actual mechanics of learning, and what I see out there is pretty scary.

Tags: Boys_Project, Life_Without_School

This one was really really hard to write. Mostly my essays about unschooling are pretty organic, and roll from whatever we’re experiencing, but lately I’ve been spending some time thinking of the larger cultural implications of the schooling process, and trying to focus on that. And in the interests of full disclosure, I’m also trying to help out some friends who are still arguing with their spouses about whether or not this is an option for them, and trying to encourage a few artist friends of mine who are struggling to continue to create within a culture that so sorely undervalues them. So this one’s for you, guys.

The Natural Products of Our Training

I‘m a titch late on this, but a new post went up on LWOS a little while back, part 2 of my Digital Natives discussion.

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/01/digital-natives.html

Go read! Leave comments! Increase my clickrate! LOL!

I had a ton of fun with this post. Entitled “Farmers’ Market“, about our weekly shopping trips, and how quite a lot of education about a really huge array of topics happens inbetween the apples and the lettuce. Check it out.

Check it out, here. This is a reprint of a piece I wrote for LWOS, “Unschooling and the Digital Native”. I’m happy to see it there. It’s posted alongside one of the most moving posts I’ve ever read on a blog, Missy’s brilliant “Chasing Bananas“, which still makes me cry every time I read it.

Wheeeeeee! You’ll find it here.

The clever amongst you will note that the post references a four year old, and Rowan is now five, so clearly that post has been sitting in the queue for a while. ::shrug:: It happens like that sometimes.

YAY! Another post up at LWOS. Robin, the editor, asked me to write something about why we unschool, in a big-picture kind of way. So here it is:

It’s About Trust

Enjoy!

It seems I post more here about posts over there than I do actually write them, but I’m working on it.

Unschooling Nurture:

http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2007/08/unschooling-nur.html

Anyone paying attention will see that the above post is about me being pregnant. I’m not any more. Which is one of the big things happening that I’m not ready to blog about that I mentioned in the prior post. =) Thanks.

This post, “Day of a Thousand Charms“, was originally posted here, and Robin, the excellent editor of LWOS, asked for reprints. So here it is!

I had a lot of fun with this one, and it’s been approved by a few bona fide Digital Natives. Enjoy!
http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2007/06/unschooling_and.html