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Follow homeschoolers Nadia and Aidan as they travel the USA! Each book in this series explores a new state and a new research topic. Along with their parents and pet turtle, they find adventure and learning everywhere.

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Topics: Unschooling,Webkinz,mindful parenting

What Not To Say To Children

  Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. — Anonymous Consider your words carefully, your words define who you are. What is your goal from your [...]

Month Day
Topics: PCRM,Unschooling,art,saguaro,travel,vegan,zen

Support Local Artists

Next time you are on the market for a new painting, sculpture, or other artistic gift, check out your local artists. I keep being pleasantly surprised at the wonderful artwork that is created in and around my community. Some of my recent finds include: Diana Madaras — canvases, prints, calendars, art tiles, and more (I [...]

Month Day
Topics: Barnard,McDougall,PCRM,curing diseases,empowerment,food,lowfat,vegan

What about protein?

This is probably the most frequent question I receive when I tell people that I am vegan. “Don’t you just feel weak all the time?” the questions continue… [They are usually asked by an extremely unhealthy looking person, too. One that has just spent the previous 30 minutes talking about his/her ailments and plans to [...]

Month Day
Topics: projectors,television

Bigger Screen, Happier Budget, More Space: Projector Televisions

Dream of a big screen television, but don’t have the money or space? Have you considered a projection television? We have and we wrote up a little something. We’ve had a projector television for several years now and we couldn’t be happier. It costs less than current alternatives and the size is significantly larger. It [...]

Month Day
Topics: Unschooling,photographs,space,travel,zen

Land of Enchantment

New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment for a very good reason. This huge state has desert, high mountains, lava fields, white sands, and much more. Our goal on this latest adventure was to explore space and the white sand dunes. First, we went sledding in White Sands, using regular domed sleds. My daughter [...]

Month Day
Topics: Star Trek,Unschooling,space,vegan

Space, the Final Frontier

Here are my daughters at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. We are huge Star Trek fans. While we’ve chosen to not purchase or use a curriculum for our children’s education, we’ve been known to joke and say that we use the Star Trek curriculum (afterall, we’ve been averaging viewing [...]

Month Day
Topics: art,photographs,travel

Keep Family Up-to-date with Photos

In order to keep our family and friends up-to-date on our lives, we like to send them photographs. We enjoy sending digital photos to Ceiva digital frames. We first gave frames to family over seven years ago. The frames have held up well and for the most part, we’ve been extremely happy with Ceiva and [...]

Month Day
Topics: music

Free Radio

Looking for new ideas on what to listen to? Check out Pandora’s cool (and free) internet radio. You can type in one of your favorite artists and it’ll give you recommendations, then start playing!

Month Day
Topics: Unschooling,food,space,travel,vegan

Eating Vegan While Traveling

My daughters and I are currently on a road trip, checking out famous (and not so famous) space exhibits and sites in New Mexico (more on this later). We knew from the get-go that eating a healthy vegan diet whilst traveling was probably going to be challenging. It is, but we’ve got some suggestions on [...]

Month Day
Topics: Unschooling,music

Amy Steinberg’s New CD

Amy Steinberg’s much anticipated new CD, Fall Down to Fly, is out as of yesterday. Her song Exactly is a favorite of many Unschooling families. We really relate to the lyrics and enjoy her beautiful and soulful voice. I’m extremely excited that she is playing near me this year. Check out Amy’s music on her [...]

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