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What compels you to get out of bed in the morning? What drives you to do great and amazing things? For me, it’s the people in my life and the projects we create. I need to be constantly creating, expanding, and forging ahead in order to feel fulfilled. Without that, I feel empty. I also [...]
I’m so excited to announce that my Do Life Right, Inc. publishing company, specializing in fiction about realistic homeschoolers of today, has just started a crowd-sourcing KickStarter campaign. Please check it out, pledge at least $5, and tell all your friends and family! With your help, we’ll have dozens of amazing books about realistic homeschoolers [...]
This post was inspired by the “I’m THAT Mom” blog carnival started on July 26, 2010 by Flo and Ronnie and many other wonderful bloggers–I know of over 40 posts in the carnival and they are all wonderful and inspiring. I’m the mother who, after being told by her three year old daughter that she [...]
On Friday, July 16th, Jennifer Waddell and her cameraman Jimmy came to my family’s house to interview us about our Radical Unschooling lifestyle. Since it’s been asked: Opening our home to the interview was a big decision that my family made together. If even one of us had decided not to, the answer would have [...]
My family was recently interviewed about our unschooling lifestyle. While I didn’t answer all the questions exactly like I do below, nor were the same questions asked, I thought you might enjoy reading some answers to questions that have been asked of me and my family lately. Q: What is Unschooling? A: Unschooling is a [...]
The great thing about living an unschooling lifestyle is that we come to truly appreciate our children’s (and our own) passions. My daughters have never been required by myself, my husband, or anyone else, to learn things on a particular timeline or schedule. We’ve never given them tests, quizzed them on their knowledge, or sat [...]
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them. If I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert Heinlein In a conversation about rules and principles in a family life, [...]
I was recently asked in a round about way what items I felt were essential for homeschooling success. This is the IN ORDER list of tangible purchases my family couldn’t live without in 2010 and still be a successful homeschooling family: High speed internet and at least one household computer that all members of the [...]
When people find out that my family considers ourselves to be Radical Unschoolers, they almost always become confused and then angry–in that order. The confusion comes when they hear the definition of “radical unschooling”. I state, calmly and succinctly, that it means living without school, artificial rules, or others’ definitions of what we should or [...]
Since every unschooling family I’ve ever met has been seemingly completely different than all the others, it made me wonder: just what do these people all have in common? How is it that they all call themselves unschoolers? Just what is this unschooling philosophy about if it can draw so many people from such diverse [...]
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