Unschooling myself.

On the path from public schooling to homeschooling to, finally, unschooling, I realized that what started out as a chance to educate my kids became a chance to reeducate myself. It started when I read the “Principles of Unschooling” by Pam Sorooshian, who completely rocked my world. And what was my world at that time? [...]

Life is a classroom full of socialization.

Oh people! I’ve been doing laundry/cleaning out my minivan/sorting through piles of stuff, now that we’re back in California. I’ve always suspected that housework makes me lose brain cells, and tonight I have proof! Because I’ve been sitting here looking at a blank computer screen unable to put two words together, let alone a whole [...]

Math Monday::Beach (or Pool, or Bath) Physics!

If I organized a school, kinda like what Emerson and Alcott and Thoreau did (all of them transcendentalists…I’m mad for transcendentalism and their impact on alternative education in America…) then I’d make sure to set it up on a coast where kids could play in the surf and sand. To children, play is the fastest [...]

Our Unschooling Life in Video.

The interest is still high over what exactly us freaky unschoolers are doing all day, thanks to the heightened media coverage the past week. There’s not much I can say about the way it’s being portrayed on TV, but lots of us unschoolers are writing about our lives and what unschooling is to us and [...]

Hey George*, You Know What I Think Is “Crazy”?

I think it’s crazy that so much of the fallout from the unschooling report on GMA has centered on how important schools are for exposing kids to things they wouldn’t get anywhere else. Uh, that was probably true in the 1800′s, when news from overseas took 2 months to get here by ship, there were [...]

GMA opened up a big can of unschooling worms!

The flurry of activity after GMA aired a segment on unschooling has been amazing, coming from both sides of the schooling fence. Mainstream public schoolers were appalled at the idea of raising kids without ‘normal’ school, unschoolers were appalled at the extremely biased slant the ‘interview’ took as a whole. In one day, my first [...]

Unschooling on GMA

I have no internet or TV, and have been outside the mainstream news for a while now, so didn’t realize there was a tiny segment about Radical Unschooling on GMA. You can watch the video here. “Imagine No School, Parents Let Kids Go Free!” was the caption under most of the segment, which made me [...]

Conflict Resolution–Useful Skill in a Tiny RV and in Life.

A side effect of unschooling 3 kids while in an RV is that we are really learning to work together. I mean, there’s only 35 feet of space for all of us to exist in. We go everywhere together. And if we’re not going somewhere together, we have to coordinate everyone’s schedules so that all [...]

The Great Vomit Date of 2010.

I warned you I was not done talking about the date Sassy and I had in Santa Monica…the one where she spewed about 5 gallons worth of grossness all over me. So if you don’t do well hearing about public displays of disgusting bodily functions, maybe go all the way back to 2007 in my [...]

The World Is My Home.

So, being back in our lovely house for the first time in 2 months is….interesting. I love this house. We’ve spent 5 years making memories and living here. It’s got the best kitchen I’ve ever cooked in! It has wood floors that are perfect to ice skate around in socks! It has Rocky Mountain views! [...]