When your family decides to move away from school-based learning there is usually a period of transition, commonly referred to as deschooling. It's a time when the kids, having spent however many …
Math is More Than Arithmetic
Continuing with this month's theme of digging into how unschooling is different than school, and with reading and writing under our belts, let's tackle math. Because unschoolers don't slice the world …
Learning to Write is About Communicating
Writing is another of those basic skills that many parents are wary about not teaching when they are exploring unschooling. Let's look again at the bigger communication picture from the Learning to …
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Learning to Read Without Lessons
Last week I explored some of the fundamental differences between unschooling and school. But even if it sounds interesting and makes some logical sense, it can be hard to loosen your grip on the …
Unschooling Doesn’t Look Like School At All
Unschooling looks like life. Like an endlessly unfolding summer vacation, minus the warm weather (unless you live a lot closer to the equator than I do!), but with one big difference: the kids …
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