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 […]
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Work-home conflict
As an unschooler I find it hard going to work in a school as a teacher. Aside from being away from my kids, I become the person that I don’t want my kids around to other people’s children. Whilst it’s their choice to send their children to school, I do feel like a hypocrite. BUT I […]
Card games
The other day I decided to show Alex a deck of cards and asked if he’s like to play a game. He was actually a little resistant (surprisingly to me), but I pushed a little as I was pretty sure it would be something he’s like to do with me. And it would be something […]
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, […]
Back on track!
The love of trains is back. Though we’ve realised it’s more than just trains… it’s length. Alex has always liked building long trains. The number of carriages was his pleasure. It got hard when there were other kids around, we just thought he was not ready to share and similar preschool issues. But we’ve since […]
What we got up to – February 2015
Here’s a few piccies of what we got up to (WWGUT) in February 2015. Alex’s annual bday shirt picture Image 1 of 17
How we spend our time
My kids are night owls. It’s 8am. they’re still sleeping. Because of this, I choose to get up early. By 6am if possible. This gives me a chance to exercise (snigger – doesn’t happen as often as I’d like!), do some work, do some research, write blogs. You get the point. When they do […]
What am I doing?
Ok, so 2015 is not as I’d imagined. I thought I’d be deschooled – an indication that I needed to deschool more! I thought I’d have more time. Yet it seems that time is something I am wanting more of. I’m working part time, granted it’s not much maybe the equivalent of 2 days per […]
What we got up to – January 2015
Here’s a few piccies of what we got up to (WWGUT) in January 2015. Handling a baby python as a VHS member Image 1 of 15
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 […]