Are we unschooling yet? I’m not sure, but I do know that I’m not worried about this. I had previously planned to deschool until the end of 2014 (mostly for me) and that I would have this moment when unschooling would start. I even thought this after reading several other blogs, most notably Pam Laricchia’s […]
Category: In my head – thoughts on the process of deschooling
Following up that overwhelming future
I’ve been feeling the weight of my task. The responsibility! Whilst I believe that I still have deschooling to do, I have made a few mini steps this week. I’m glad I see this as a huge responsibility, the futures of my children and their happiness is top of my lists (I love lists!). It’s […]
An Overwhelming Future
So I haven’t long started the blog and already I’m not adding as much as I’d like! Summing things up a little at the moment – overwhelmed! There’s a number of things, I’m not really sure what direction I want this blog to take. (And why do I feel the need to categorize it, being […]
Backlog blog – letting go of limits
As I’ve said before, we’ve practised gentle parenting and so there has not been a huge paradigm shift. Our two areas of control had always been TV and food. We never announced that we would be dropping limits, it soon became obvious. Instead of saying ‘No, you’ve already had a juice today’, we left Alex […]
How we got to unschooling
We had always intended for our children to go to school, a school that was good for them. Not for its reputation or location, but that would fit our boys. After retraining from an engineer to a teacher, I began to see that this was not achievable. This time last year, we had paid […]