So, Alex has successfully kept the garden millipedes that are now container bound alive for a whole week! Well, one kind of got broken my chubby fingers… Anyway, we have found out why they need to be in a damp environment from books from the library, have discovered details about their anatomy, and successfully fed […]
Category: Deschooling
Counting and books
Alex has been counting to 100 lots lately, especially carriages or engines on the model trains he watches on Youtube. Today we went to a freight train yard, he was ecstatic. Alex is also close to earning his 100 badge for karate. He’s been asking “how many more” for a few weeks now. I think […]
Pocket money, food, TV
These three things (consumerism rather than pocket money exactly) are the ones we struggle with as unschoolers because they are the things we have had to release control over as we moved from our previous existence as natural, gentle parents. I’ll explain where we are at with each now. Pocket Money – When Alex turned […]
Back to journaling
With all of my recent thoughts on deschooling, I backed off of the connection making for a while. With the advice of Pam Larrichia after I posted a comment on her blog, I’m just going to play. this comes pretty easy to me as my kids don’t like to play by themselves! needless to say […]
Let it be
I have terrible trouble coming up with post names. This one is because I have been too concerned about doing unschooling right and transitioning from deschooling that I know more deschooling is necessary. My kids are young, and even though I get the very occasional heart-stopping, breath-taking, wide-eyed “am I doing the right thing” moments, […]
Overwhelmed… again!
So this week has been our first as official homeschoolers. I know many in the homeschool world will tell me I’m not official yet as I don’t have to register till Alex is 6, but he *should* have been somewhere this year. Whether it was the planned early(ish) entry to school or else kinder. Last […]
Are we unschooling yet?
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 […]
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 […]