Do Life Right

Are you enjoying having your kids home from school? Do you consider your children the coolest people in the universe?
Did you know that you don’t have to send them back to school? It is possible to legally homeschool in all 50 U.S. states and many (most?) countries around the world.
Homeschooling comes in all shapes and [...]

Since before my family was officially a homeschooling family, I’ve heard the stories of “poor stifled homeschooled children”.  Who hasn’t?  It’s these poor kids (well, actually their parents) who give homeschoolers a bad name.  I’ve met them, they absolutely exist — so I’m not about to tell you that they don’t.  I will say though [...]

I recently heard a homeschooling mother say that her family unschooled during the summer and Christmas vacations.  I’ve also heard parents of schooled (public and private) say similarly.  The homeschooling mother’s reasoning was that she believed that nothing can be learned during those times anyway since the kids are distracted by other things, plus she [...]

While Arizona does get snow (quite a lot in the mountains — especially in the north part of the state), here in the lower altitudes of southern Arizona snow is a rare thing.  To liven up our living space and to make the place feel more wintery, we’ve made snowflakes out of coffee filters.  They [...]

I’ve been asked the above question (or similar) hundreds of times since I started telling people that we were a homeschooling family.  Just about every kind grandmother at stores or check-out personnel ask me this when I go out shopping with my kids in the middle of a school day.  Very few are rude about [...]

On this day of thankfulness, I am reminded of the thousands of things I am thankful for.  Many of the most life-altering ones revolve around our decision to become whole life learning Unschoolers.  I never would have come to this without the birth of my oldest daughter.
Here are my Top 10 Reasons why I’m thankful [...]

We recently hosted a tie-dyeing party for our local Unschooling group.  Since we’ve tie-dyed a lot over the years, my older daughter wanted to do something a bit different.  We decided to “double dye” a few items.

First we dyed the items as usual using Procion dye and directions from the Dharma Trading Company (both the [...]

We have an approximately 70 foot zipline in our yard that we’ve been playing with a lot lately.  To make it even more fun, we’ve recently added a ramp at the far end and a step at the beginning plus platforms at both ends, handles to climb up onto the first platform, and a fishing [...]

Should elementary school children be sent home with over an hour’s worth of homework every night? Should that work count for something? Is an elementary school child’s opinion worthy of respect? Is “green”ness an issue we are forcing schooled children to think is not real and worthy? Are school administrators and [...]

Carrot cake is my absolute favorite kind of cake.  Problem is, I’ve only had one great one since I became vegan (although I’ve tried a bunch).  So, as a birthday surprise my daughters and husband made me a homemade carrot cake.  It was, by far, the best carrot cake I’ve ever tasted.  It is dense [...]