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 […]
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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 […]
Backlog blog – snakes
This is Alex with Darci – his ‘pet’ snake. She comes with us to many places. We got her when I noticed Alex playing with snakes in the ‘Keeper Kids’ section at Melbourne zoo and spending hours in the reptile house as we are regular visitors. Since getting Darci, we’ve been exploring snakes – […]
Since Kinder
We withdraw Alex from kinder in August. Since then we’ve seen a few changes. The most noticeable for me is the way he socialises. There were times in the past where he seemed overwhelmed in groups, and would often end up positioned as an aggressor. This rarely happens now, and I don’t think it is […]
Short one – A word of thanks
I’m not sure if we would have chosen to homeschool (more specifically unschool) our kids had I not retrained from engineer to primary school teacher. I had thought about homeschool, and went down the path of project based homeschooling for a while (I even compared Alex’s knowledge to Australian Curriculum Foundation level). This didn’t last […]
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 […]
First post!
Testing, testing! 1 2 3! I’m excited and nervous about this blog. Our family is currently deschooling, I’ll talk about how and why we got here in forthcoming posts. But my doubts have long gone. I’m reading about unschooling when I can, and a lot of my posts over the next few months will probably […]