Archive for the tag 'Unschooling'

Unschooling Nurture — A Progress Report

So yesterday, a friend of mine and I took my kids out for ice cream. There was a family there, mom, dad, brand new (I’m guessing 4 months or less), in a baby bucket. Midway through our eating, the baby starts crying. Instantly, all three of my kids start squirming uncomfortably. Aurora kept looking at [...]

Support Zenschooling

As many of you know, I’m the editor for a micro press, Hunt Press. We’ve published quite a few cool titles over time, and plan on publishing many more before we’re through. The next awesome piece through the pipe is a fabulous work by Tammy Takahashi, called Zenschooling. It took me longer to edit than [...]

I’m That Mom — Say Yes

…a blog carnival started by Ronnie Maier, inspired by this post. More and more, the kids all show up at my boat. My kids ask if they can go play on the other boat, and are told that no, they have to be quiet, or no, someone’s busy, or no, someone cleaned, or or or… [...]

Rowan’s Eight — A Lego Birthday

Rowan is very nonchalant about his birthdays. He wanted a cake. Not three cakes like I made his brother, or two like his sister had. Just one. Vanilla, please. Nothing fancy, just cake. He wanted sushi. Just the regular order; he didn’t want, say four whole Lion King rolls to himself. No. Just the usual; [...]

Walking in the Park

No big deal. Just a walk on a day when everyone needed to be outside.

What About College?

Ah, the question every homeschooler gets asked over… and over… and over again. I’m going to print this piece out and start handing it to folks… Dear Students: Don’t Let College Unplug Your Future I’m about to say something a college professor shouldn’t say to his students, but I care about you a lot so [...]

Sprouting

We eat a lot of sprouts, on this boat. Not only are they little nutritional powerhouses, but they’re yummy finger food, they lend themselves to recipes well, they’re easy to store in the tiny storage space available on a boat, and, well, they’re fun. Just recently, the Sproutpeople, my favorite supplier, ran a sale on [...]

We’re in Do Life Right!

An interview I did a few weeks ago got published today! Hurrah! 20 Unschooling Questions: Laureen from San Francisco Bay, CA Enjoy, and please leave comments there. Photo Credit: Zen.

A Short History of Compulsory Schooling

This just slays me. But then again, we all need a revolution we can dance to, yeah?

Is School Necessary?

With the demise of the Life Without School blog, my homeschool rants are now going to all be right here on ElementalMom. So don’t say you weren’t warned. Also, without the lovely Robin’s moderating influence, I’m free to revert to my normal bombastic self in these issues. Thus, this link to a lovely article in [...]

New post on LWOS

The Knowing of Practical Things I wrote this post one day when the demons of doubt were out and large, and one too many people had asked me what the boys were learning. You know, actual school learning. And I snapped.

New Post at LWOS

A fun post, about the effects of the family’s Jackie Chan obsession on Rowan’s education. http://www.blog.lifewithoutschool.info/2009/01/ali-i-needed-to-know-about-pe-i-learned-from-jackie-chan.html

New Post on LWOS

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. [...]

Unschooling the Music

A mom on a local unschooling group I’m part of recommended a singing program, boy’s choir, that was gearing up to do auditions. She has two sons, one not much older than mine,  one 14, in the program, and they were both loving it. Sure, some schoolish aspects, but both the boys were learning tons [...]