Incorporating Unschooling into a Project Based School

So, with the help of the children, I have chosen all our curriculum and am continuing to pursue project based learning whenever I can.  Yet everything which pulls me towards unschooling is still pulling, whilst everything in me which rejects unschooling is still rejecting it.  What's a girl to do?  A while ago I read…

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Precious Memories

So, last Saturday we went aboard the ferry home, crossing from Belfast to Liverpool overnight.   Gary slept with the older ones in a cabin, I slept with the littles in another cabin.  It was a stormy night, which the little ones slept dead to the world the whole way through.  Unlike their mother and…

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What Type of Homeschoolers Are We, Anyway? Part 4

Unschooling has evolved from simply not being in school (John Holt), to life learning in the 1980's, to child led learning in the 1990's.  These days there is a plethora of radical unschoolers, who to be honest make me feel a little uncomfortable. I am glad I have been looking into unschooling from a place of homeschooling confidence…

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What Type of Home Schoolers Are We, Anyway? Part 3

There is another reason, other than the older ones maturing, for me looking for an alternative method of learning for my guys.  My first four children have been incredibly lovely, easy-going, easy to train and well-behaved children.  I have never really needed to question too much what I was doing.  If they were unhappy they…

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What Type of Homeschoolers Are We, Anyway? Part 2

Over the past month or so I've been trying to organise my messy thoughts.  This is nothing unusual.  Everything about me is usually in a state of disarray.  But to me, this was more important than my usual scatty mumblings. When we first started home schooling, my children's eagerness to learn knew no bounds.  We…

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