Continuing with this month’s theme that unschooling encompasses the whole range of learning that goes into being a person, a human being, let’s look at relationships. Supporting our children as they learn about themselves and explore how they relate to others will help them immensely as they interact more and more with the world. Note […]
Think, Think, Think …
Learning is at the heart of unschooling—learning and living are beautifully intertwined. As human beings we want to make sense of our world; it’s uncomfortable when we don’t understand what’s happening around us. That learning process, as we all strive to build our picture of the world and how it works, has two basic parts. […]
How Does Your Child Like To Learn?
Conventionally, there is a separation between academic skills, taught by schools, and life skills, taught by parents. Yet more and more parents are feeling a time crunch and are encouraging schools to take responsibility for teaching their children life skills beyond academics, like health, character, and sex education. As unschooling parents, we choose to retain […]