Do Life Right

My Always Unschooled daughters and I have been making up a lot of words lately. It’s fun and it’s evolutionary. This is how words are created. Sometimes current existing words cannot convey the particular meaning we are trying to get across, so we mix and match words that already do exist until [...]

I’ve previously written about the Webkinz Crown of Wonder here:

“Crown of Wonder“
“Second Webkinz Crown of Wonder“

After 8 months of playing on my daughters’ Webkinz accounts, I finally decided to get my own account. My first Webkinz was a reindeer and I opened my account on December 19, 2007 (my dad’s birthday). Without missing [...]

Here is a recent view out our Southern Arizona backyard window. We have several bunny friends that enjoy our prickly pears and hanging strings of chili peppers. I wasn’t able to get a photograph of the rabbit on his hind legs reaching up to the chilies, but he’s happily munching here and we [...]

To be to the point, I’m a vegan food advocate. I’ve been asked several times now what I think of the raw food movement, so here is my response.
There are many health benefits to a vegan raw food diet. However, the benefits can also be seen by simply converting to a low fat [...]

My daughters have been extremely interested in caves and mines lately, so we’ve been touring as many as we can find. This is an important part of Unschooling that is often misunderstood. As Unschoolers, we parents are the facilitators of our children’s learning. When they are interested in a particular topic, no [...]

My younger daughter’s Girl Scout troop (I’m their Leader) recently went hiking at Gates Pass, on the West side of Tucson, AZ. Here are some photographs. All the little green vertical lines are saguaros. Many are hundreds of years old.

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The following post is a guest post from my 11 year old Always Unschooled daughter, Zoë. This is her very first written report and she’d like to share it with the world. She wrote it for the Harry Potter class that I wrote about in my “My Unschooled 11 Year Old — Right [...]

Yesterday was Pi Day, one of our favorite days of the year. We ended up making seven pies to celebrate — all vegan, of course: two Chicken-less Pot Pies, one Creamy Strawberry Pie, one Chocolate Pudding Pie, one Blueberry Pie, one Apple Pie, and one Cherry Pie. Here are photographs and recipes of [...]

It’s exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I’m not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don’t follow instructions, those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what’s important to them. –Michael Dell

We are super lucky today; scientific studies aren’t [...]

I was recently reminded with the chaos regarding homeschooling legalities in California how many people have the misconception that homeschooling families are putting their children into artificial bubbles and not allowing them to be in the “real world”. Talking about this topic on an Unschooling list, a friend of mine, Kim, said,” And yes, [...]