Unschooling is Just as Much About the Parent as the Child
Want to Be Part of My Podcast?
Epic Plans for My Podcast and Blog (and Other Things)
My Next Epic Unschooling Adventure
Do Our Kids Know Themselves Better Than We Know Them?
A Simple Way to Make Coloured Background Templates for Evernote Notes
Does the World Need Unschooling?
Helping Each Other Become Better People
Teenagers, Friends, School and Unschooling: An Interview
Another 24 Evernote Coloured Background Note Templates
My Unschooling Teenagers’ Typical Days
An Active Approach to Radical Unschooling
Unschooling and University: Learning from Our Own Experiences
When Rules for Teenagers Aren’t Necessary
What to Do When Unschooling Kids Reach the Teenage Years
Dragon Mothers and Parenting Mistakes
The Trouble With Being a Perfectionist
Christian Unschooling and Other Things
Bringing God into the Unschooling Picture
How to Customise a Basic Evernote Planner
Creating Personal Planners Using Evernote
Why It’s Important to Allow Kids to Follow Their Interests and Passions
What if You Disagree With My Unschooling Ideas?
Being Honest About Unschool Maths
Blogging, Social Media and Unschooling Books
Spreading the Radical Unschooling Message
Should Parents Be In Charge Because They Have Experience and Wisdom?
Babies and Toddlers and Unschooling
Unconditional Love: An Essential Ingredient of Unschooling
How Unschooling Isn’t About Doing Whatever We Like
Should Unschooled Kids Live Balanced Lives?
Should Kids Finish Everything They Start?
Approaching Unschooling From Different Directions
Changing Our Ideas About Unschooling
Are We Incomplete Without Our Interests and Passions?
Unlearning What We’ve Learnt About Education
The Truth About Our Unschooling Journey
Unschoolers and Schooly Type Subjects
Unschooling: What It’s All About
Unschooling: What It Is and What It’s Not
Overcoming the Temptation to Doubt
What Gives Me the Right to Write About Unschooling?
About Me: A Former Dragon Mother
An Unschooling Conversation Between Friends
My Unschooling Book Blogging Challenge
Why it’s Dangerous to Insist Our Children Have the Same Opinions as Us
An Interview with a Teenage Radical Unschooler
Why You Should Consider Radical Unschooling
Why Becoming an Ex-Unschooling Blogger is a Bit Scary
Why This is the End of the Line for Me
Is it Really Okay to Give Unschooling Kids Unlimited Access to Screens and the Internet?
Social Media, Internet Addiction and Screen Time
Is the Internet Addictive or is There Another Reason I Waste Time Online?
Disentangling Myself from the Internet
How Do I Turn Unschooling Life into Homeschool Records?
What is Unschooling? A Transcript
Accepting, Respecting, and Loving Unconditionally: An Unschooler’s Thoughts
Podcasting Breaks and Unschooling Books
Miles’ Model Munitions Germination
Ideas for Starting Unschooling
A Podcast Transcript: Passing on Our Values and Beliefs to Our Children
Sharing Our Values and Beliefs With Our Unschooled Children
How I Gave Up and Started Unschooling
Adult Peer Pressure, Clothes, Rules, and Compassion
If We Collaborate Could We Light a Gentle Unschooling Fire?
My Unschooling Podcast Adventure
Real Life Family Unschool Maths
A Gradual Approach to Unschooling
Unschool Maths and Uncomfortable Ideas
When New Ideas Make Us Feel Uncomfortable
Unschooling Imposters and Difficult Days
Fitting Facebook, Podcasting and Blogging into a Busy Life
An Evernote Workshop (8): Recording the Weather
How an Unschooling Life isn’t Perfect and Why That’s Okay
Turning Unschool Learning into Homeschool Records Notes
An Evernote Workshop (7): 50 Coloured Background Note Templates (to download)
Unschooling Siblings and Other Stories
What Do Unschoolers Do All Day?
An Evernote Workshop (6): Images and Icons
An Evernote Workshop: (5) Digital to Paper, Saving and Printing Notebooks
An Evernote Workshop: (4) How Many Notebooks Do We Need?
Does My Trust in Unschooling Ever Waver?
An Evernote Workshop: (3) Notes, Notebooks, Tags
How Unschooling is About Being Connected with Our Kids
An Evernote Workshop: (2) The Basic Options
An Evernote Workshop: (1) Creating Family, Personal, and Homeschool Journals
Why You Should Consider Keeping an Evernote Homeschool Records Book Even if You Don’t Have to
I Might Be Different But I’m Okay
If It’s Not on Facebook Did It Really Happen?
Wanting to Be the Star and Other Stories
An Answer to the Chores Problem
Can We Force Kids to Exercise?
The Catholic Radical Unschool Cheese and Other Stories
Why Unschooling Isn’t Just Another Method of Homeschooling
An Unschooling Experiment
My Perfect Christmas Present Secret
Bob Blogosphere Discovers Imogen Elvis
The Difference Between Radical Unschooling and Unparenting
Making an Aussie Bush Christmas Tree
Are You an Unschooling Multipotentialite?
Not The Usual Reason for Playing Board Games
A Very Resource Full Week: Rescued Paintings, Graphs, and Expensive Cats
The Extraordinary Ordinary Things of Life
Are We Living a Second Best Kind of Unschooling Life?
How Introverts Aren’t Necessarily Shy
Do You Live in the Best Place in the World?
How to Start a Great Art Conversation
How NOT to Be Your Child’s Worst Nightmare
A Day in the Life of an Unschooling Teenager: Miles Brack
Will All Unschoolers Do Amazing Things?
Are You a Daring and Adventurous Parent?
Unplanning Notebooks for Strewing and Unschool Record Keeping
Of Babies and Bombs
Parenting Teenagers: Why I Don’t Make Rules
A New Series of Unschooling Videos
Would You Like to Be My Guest?
How to Turn Movies into Homeschool Records Notes
Grateful
How Sharing Interests Strengthens Family Bonds
Radical Unschooling
Learning from Life, Record-Keeping, and Strewing
How Children Learn When They Have a Need
Go Out There and Make a Difference!
How to Make Evernote Unschool Records look Impressive
What We Need to Film Imogen’s Music Videos
A Triple Celebration
Cold Piano Fingers
Waiting
Telling the Same Story in a New Way
Dreams
Unschooling: What About Socialisation?
Some Thoughts About Proper and Not So Proper Unschoolers
The Not So Proper Unschoolers
Another Typical Unschooling Day
Unschooling Siblings Working Together
Is Play Important for Both Adults and Children?
Helping a Child Discover Her Talents
It’s Not a Periscope 4: Morning Tea and Library Books
Choosing Not to Worry About What Other People Might Think
Facebook: So How Did That Happen?
It’s Not a Periscope 3: A Bushwalk
It’s Not a Periscope 2: Pictures
Tired and Difficult Days
It’s Not a Periscope: Introduction
Trust, Respect, and Love Unconditionally
Unschool Cemetery Maths
Ideas, Passions, and Earning an Income
Love and a Mother’s Heart Stories
The Dead Body and Other Stories
Dealing with Our Fears and Other People’s Critical Comments
Learning about Fashion and Other Friday Afternoon Stories
The Joy and Love of Living an Unschooling Way of Life
Choosing Not to Look for a ‘Real’ Job
10 Discoveries of a Hallelujah Unschooling Week
Wasting Time Watching Too Many Movies?
Young Adult Unschoolers, Dreams, Love, and Marriage
Maths, Chores, and Thanking Our Kids
Thinking Critically about Unschooling
More Sibling Rivalry: Another Unschooling Interview
Sibling Rivalry: An Unschooling Interview
Responding to Unschooling and Other Critics
What’s Stopping You From Unschooling?
Why My Children and I Share Our Evernote Notebooks
Fan Mail and Lots of Unschooling Thoughts
Our Typical Unschooling Mornings
Why Some Kids Are Willing to Help with the Chores
Our Unschooling Morning Routine
Talking About Exercise with My Unschooling Teenager
How to Podcast: Editing an Episode
How to Podcast: Recording an Episode
Evernote Homeschool Records: How Many Notebooks Do We Need?
Should We Buy Kids What They Need to Fulfil Their Passions?
One-On-One Times: Are They Important?
Making a Music Video in the Australian Bush
What Shall I Write About in the New Year?
10 Reasons Why You Should Read My Blog
Life after University: Following Dreams
Attachment Parenting and Unschooling
Unschool Maths Records: 20+ Ideas for Evernote
Unschool English Records: 20 Ideas for Evernote
The Awesome Teacher and Other Stuff
From Around the Web: Unschooling and Learning to Read
If You Haven’t Got Time to Listen to a Whole Podcast…
Why We Don’t Have to Push Kids to Work Hard
Getting Older, Unschooling, and Moving On
Fabulous Christmas: Gift Ideas and Traditions
When Amazing Things Aren’t Happening
Letting Our Writing Imaginations Go Wild
Real Life Maths: Designing a Dream Home
Stolen Paintings and Real Life Maths
If You Think Computer Games Are a Waste of Time
Is it Necessary We Agree with Each Other’s Ideas?
Do My Unschoolers Mind Being Different?
The Tricky Business of Recommending Resources
When Our Help and Strewing Are Rejected
Liking, Tweeting, Pinning, Aching…
How Registered Homeschoolers Can Unschool
The Most Powerful Motivator of All
One Way My Blog Might Be Useful
On Holiday: History, Geography and Record Keeping
The Angels of Abbey Creek Paper Dolls
The New Mr and Mrs Elvis and Other Extraordinary Week Stories
Mothers and Daughters-in-Law and Love
How I’m Gaining a Sixth Daughter
Chores and Our Typical Unschooling Day
Perhaps I Shouldn’t Have Told You about Our Typical Unschooling Day
A Bit of a Murder in Our Typical Unschooling Day
How I Made a ‘Huge’ Mistake and Was Forgiven
How I Ruined My Chances of Having Thousands of Facebook Fans
Is Unschooling Just Living Life?
Getting a Bit Carried Away with Fotojet
Books, Weddings and Lots of Passion!
Being Part of the Helping Team
Encouraging Kids to Write (and the Youngest Child in the Family)
Popularity, Learning to Read and Shakespeare
Acquiring Bucketfuls of Unschooling Trust
Can We Say We’re Unschoolers if We Require Maths?
Learning from My Daughter and Other Unschool Stories
Why Picnics Are (Still) Important
Deciding to be Positive about Homeschool Record Keeping
Why Kids with Families Don’t Need Workbooks to Learn Basic Maths
Regaining Her Enthusiasm for Learning
From Unschooling to University
Real Life Maths Resources: Some Thoughts and Links
Preparing Our Children for an Unknown Future: Can We Do it?
Elevator Pitches: Unschooling and Faith
When Excitement for Learning Appears to Disappear
Evernote for Home Records: Which Version?
Creativity: Why Classical Music Isn’t Enough
What I Think Unschooling is All About: The Podcast
Misconceptions: Unschooling Children are Self-Centred and Inconsiderate
Misconceptions: Unschooling Children Will Choose Not to Do Difficult Things
Misconceptions: Unschooling Parents are Lazy
Misconceptions: Unschooling Parents Have to Step Back
Dreams, Talents, Working and Unworking
The Power of a Few Encouraging Words
Changing People’s Minds about Unschooling
Maybe We Should Have Listened to the Critics
Using Evernote to Record Unschool Maths
Registering as Homeschoolers Using Evernote Unschool Records
A Successful Evernote Homeschool Registration Visit
Young, Beautiful Avatars & Other Discoveries of My Week
Forcing Kids to Learn and to Eat, and Should We Test Them?
Blog Post Ideas & Other Lurky Week Stories
The Inflated Can of Baked Beans
Our Reluctance to Trust and Other Croaky Thoughts
Time for New Adventures? Maybe? Maybe Not?
Why I Like Empty Weeks & Other Busy Week Stories
Can Unschooling Be a Christian Thing to Do?
Why Sophie is Glad I’m Her Mother and Other Dusty Week Stories
Questioning Our Decision to Unschool
If You’re Looking for the Perfect Example of Unschooling
Being Honest: Talking about Mistakes and Perfection
An Australian Bush Birthday and Bush Books
Protecting Children from Outside Influences
My Head is Overflowing with Ideas, Music, and Lots of Questions!
Keeping Teenagers Safe from the Dangers of the World
Resolutions, Reading, Writing and Coarse Language
Under the Spell of the Australian Bush: Books, a Movie, a Walk
Unschooling Resources: Discoveries of 2014
How Jesus Was Stolen & Other Christmas Tales
Why We Are Rotten Parents and Other Stories
So What’s Happening With Facebook and My Blog?
Chores and Kids: What if We Said “Yes”?
Books, Music, Burnout and a Mystery!
Pi and Tea, and Our Dog’s Tea Bag Collection
How to Talk and Save Lives, and Can I Mention the Weather?
About Me, About Podcasts, About Adventures!
A Baby’s Birth and Death, and Christmas (Again!)
Teenagers. Rules and Rebellion
The Problem with Being an Introverted Blogger
Should a Child Be Given the Freedom to Choose?
Too Short Skirts and Other Stories of My Week
Mothers, Unschooling, and a Lazy Way of Life
How We Unschool Despite Strict Homeschool Regulations
Maths and Other Wild and Yummy Stories
Beginnings and Endings, and a Simple Christmas
More About an Unschooling School Teacher Father
Approaching Classic Novels the Other Way Round
Unschooling Children, a School Teacher Father, and Tea
Bits and Pieces, Some Hard to Believe
Unschooling Experts, Criticism, and Radical Chore Rosters
Unschooling Interests and Random Word Novels
Bare Foot Unschooling and Comfortable Shoes
Unschool Writing, Essays and a Few Panicky Moments!
Squishy? Living in the Unschooling Moment
What I Discovered This Morning & Other Stories of My Week
Exciting Times, Slow Times, and Unschool Holidays
Five MORE Favourite Read-Aloud Book Series
Getting Older, Admitting One’s Age, Lines and Wrinkles!
A Camera, Photography Books and Playing the Ebay Game
Logarithmic Time and Other Old and Inappropriate Stories
Mistakes, a Teenager’s Love of Learning and Loose Change!
Adding Children’s Books to My Own Personal Reading Pile
Podcasting, Blogging, Books and Lice!
Teenage Daughters, Books, Movies and Love
Homeschool Meetings. Talking and Turkeys
Seven Revealing Facts About Myself
Creating Evernote Reading Notebooks
Five Favourite Read-Aloud Book Series
The Writing Game: No Shortage of Writing Ideas
The Right Kind of Home Improvement
Deciding to Get Rid of Our STUFF!
Some Big News and Not So Big News
Yelling at Maths Games and Other Stories of the Week
From Unschooling to University and Work (Part 2)
What About My Perfect Homeschooling Success Story?
From Unschooling to University and Work (Part 1)
My Draft Posts File is as Fat as Our Cats, and Other Stories
So Why Do I Blog About Unschooling?
Interviewing Charlotte (16), an Unschooling Teenager
Interviewing Sophie (13), an Unschooling Teenager
Becoming Real Life Maths Detectives
Have You Been Thinking About Visiting Me?
What is it Like to Be an Unschooling Parent?
How to Have an Unschool Adventure, No Camper Van Needed!
Five Minutes on Friday: What is Unschooling?
Unschooling, Strewing and Unplanning
Rainbow Loom, More Rainbow Loom, Yet More Rainbow Loom
Chatting about Passions and Other Stuff
What My Girls Did This Week and How I Recorded These Learning Experiences
Pondering Some Ideas about How to Prepare for a Homeschool Registration Visit
Why I Refuse to be My Child’s Worst Nightmare
How Homeschooling Children Can Use Evernote
A Look Inside Our Evernote Unschooling Records Notebooks
A Perfect Method for Keeping Unschooling Records
Unvlogging: Writing, Video Making, Record Keeping…
Sipping Tea with Friends While Answering Liebster Questions
Becoming a Vlogger: So What Am I Going to Talk About?
Becoming a Vlogger: Can I Do This?
About Writing and Clothes and Camping
About Me, About Being Different
Watching TV, Playing on the Computer, Doing Nothing Much at All
Encouraging Children So They Get Excited About Learning
Some Thoughts on Unschooling and Experts
When Time and Blogs Are Our Own
When a Child Wants to Read the Same Book Again and Again
Helping a Child Go Where She Wants to Go
Glimpsing the World Through a Child’s Eyes
The Problem with Disguising Maths Practice as Fun
The Reading Out Loud Experiment
REAL LIFE Junk Mail Catalogue MATHS
Why My Unschooler Isn’t Going to Learn Any More Maths
A Typical Unschooling Day at Home
Engines, Muscles and Spending Time with Dad
Everything is Educational, Even Disney Princesses
Facing the Fact We Are an Introverted Family
The Problem with Being a Younger Sister
Lots of Interesting Stuff for Children to Do on the Computer
When Unschooling Spills Over into Parenting
The Changing Seasons of the Unschooling Year
How I Removed an Engine from a Car
Following My Mothering Instincts
Gemma-Rose (9) Talks about Novel Writing
Another Invitation to Come in and Meet My Family
Reclaiming an Unschooling Sense of Adventure
Encouragement, Example and the Fun of Sharing Passions
Sharing a Few Ideas with My Unschooling High Schooler
Why I Am My Children’s Number One Fan
Imogen Talks about the Role of Parents in Unschooling
Free Youtube Classical Movies and Mini-Series
How to Have Demanding Children Who Rule the House
Imogen Talks about Unschooling and University
Counting Down to the Biggest Writing Challenge of the Year
Why it”s Not a Good Idea to Read Carefully and Slowly
Bushrangers on Our Local Roads?
Suzie Andres’ Unschooling Books
The Problem of Applying Sunscreen to Wet, Sandy Bodies
Do You Know What’s at the End of Our Road?
Bite-Sized Pieces of Unschool Maths
Enjoying an Unexpected Little Adventure
Interviewing My Children and Other Family Movies
Giving Up My Perfect Start-of-the-Year Plans
Live Life to the Full, Have No Regrets
Memories of an Inexperienced Mother
Confessions of a Former Hot-Tempered Mother
When Worry Gets in the Way of Love
What Do Children Need for a Happy Childhood?
How the Girls and I Take a Weekly Trip Overseas
Aiming for Love Not Perfection
Nothing is More Important than Love
When a Child Has Only One Interest
The Opportunity to Discover, the Freedom to Choose
Guiding My Children Responsibly Without Imposing Rules
Making Children Learn What They Don’t Want to Know
Falling in Love the Jane Austen Way
Watching History as it Happened
What a Day Without Rules Looks Like
Why I Wanted to Delete My Blogs
Imposing Rules on Children: Is There a Better Way?
Igniting a Child’s Love of Learning
How to Get Children to Do Their School Work
Getting Children to Help with the Chores
Restricting Children’s Time on the Computer
The ‘Risky’ Business of Trusting Children
Rules, Responsible Parenting and Radical Unschooling
Unschooling: No Hippie Way of Life Needed
If You’re Thinking About Unschooling…
Favourite Books for Girls Aged 7 and Above
Strewing Astonishing Apples on the Wall
Writing, Blogging, Sharing and Enjoying
A Whole Month of Writing Challenges!
Can Catholic Unschoolers Teach Their Children About the Faith?
Sharing Some Thoughts on Children and Writing
Sharing Some Thoughts on Learning to Read
Sharing Some Thoughts on Unschool Maths
Is it Possible to Unschool Part-Time?
How My Daughters Are Organising My Education
Blogging about Unschooling in My Non-Expert Way
A Non-Super Mum’s Approach to Creative Arts
With So Much Freedom, Will an Unschooler Choose to be Lazy?
Why Do Some Children Love Writing?
Why it is Essential I Love My Own Ideas
What Happened When I Strewed a Painting on the Wall
Thinking about Maths Creatively
How to Get Our Children to Trust Us
An Unschooling Way of High School Science
Imogen’s Unschooling Plan to Get into University
From Unschooling to Successful University learning
Paintings, Jigsaws and other Art History Ideas
Chess, Sudoku, and Lazy Summer Days
Encouragement from a Super-Hero Sister
What I Think Unschooling Is All About
My Unschoolers’ End-of-the-Year Reports
When Will I Use All This Maths Mum?
What to Do When Strewing is Rejected
Independent Learners. Toast and Heavy Washing Baskets
The Tricky Problem of Giving a Child Unasked-For Help
Nurturing Independent Learners
Having the Confidence to Ignore the Opinions of Others
Giving My Unschoolers a Maths Test
How the Girls Are Going to Write Novels in Only One Month
Tired and Cranky and Lacking Enthusiasm
Forcing a Child to Do What He is Afraid to Do
Resolving to Go on More Adventures
A Better Way to Get into University
My Unschooling Highschoolers and Writing
A Main Course of Reading Out Loud
How Do You Feel on a Monday Morning?
Some Maths to Share on One of Those Tired Mornings
Comparing Homeschooling Styles: a Child’s View
Why I’m Not a Good Homeschooling Teacher
Online Maths Courses: Maths Online
For Snail Mail Writers and Bloggers
Learning About Punctuation the Lewis Carroll Way
Cool Characters and Cartoon Strips
Priest Holes, Persecution and Catholic History
How My Daughter Turned into Skye Penderwick
Lots of Jane Austen Paper Dolls
Motivated to Learn the Times Tables
Entertaining Chemistry (with Explosions!)
My Place: Australian History Series
Learning the Principles of Computer Game Design
A Famous Artist: Historical Fiction
Videos About Numbers and Stuff
In God’s Garden: a Book of Saints
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Tomie de Paola’s Saints’ Books
Lure of the Labyrinth: an Online Maths Game
A Grave Digging Nun and Art History
A Great Catholic Novel for Adults
The Power and Fun of Mind Maps
Education Doesn’t Have a Use-By Date
An Absolutely Wonderful Book on the Apostles’ Creed for Children
Great Australian Historical Fiction
A Homeschooler’s Thoughts on Her First Exam
The Rose Round: Children’s Fiction
Smiling over Unschoolers and Maths Text Books
A Little Unobtrusive Help with Reading
What about My Perfect Homeschooling Success Story?
How Children Learn According to Sophie
A Few Deaths, an Epilogue and Heaps of English
Handwriting Matters or Maybe it Doesn’t
How Younger Siblings Learn By Listening In
What Do Children Need to Learn?
How to Make Children Do Their School Work
Planning the Next Term’s School Work in Half an Hour
A Little Way of Homeschooling Cartoon Style
Billy Tells the Story of the Three Wise Men
A Doctor’s Waiting Room Education
Turning Famous Paintings into Jigsaw Puzzles
Lots of Questions about Resources
Resisting the Temptation to Interfere
Drawing, Geometry and a Happy Girl
Yikes! Do They Know About Filtration?
The Photography Girls Head into the Bush
An Adventure Hiding in Every Moment
Warming My Homeschooling Heart
Babies, Toddlers and Unschooling (Part 3)
Babies, Toddlers and Unschooling (Part 2)
Babies, Toddlers and Unschooling (Part 1)
In the Kitchen with a TV Chef Dad
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do…
Dear Sue,
I accidentally found your blog and absolutely love it! Been reading your entries on My Homeschooling Stories.
We started homeschooling this year and as you know, with all new beginners, there's lots to learn, especially for the mother. We are slowly moving more towards unstructured approach. It's exciting and scarry at the same time. So, reading your experiences here really help! Thank you very much also for your honesty because it makes me feel that what I'm experiencing is normal. And with God's grace, I can do this very challenging job :).
Wei Yun,
I am so glad you found my blog! Thank you for stopping and leaving a comment.
Exciting and scary? I can understand that! Have you read "A Little Way of Homeschooling"? Here's a quote I really love about trusting God and having confidence we can homeschool our children:
"God will give each of us the time that we need to learn everything He wants us to know; this applies to both ourselves and our children. Why do we expect we must teach it all to our children in our homeschool? And why do we automatically assume that this burden of prospective learning will be painful for them, arduous for us? There is a less frightening way….
… In the spirit of St Therese, we as Catholics ought to realise that Jesus has set us free. If we believe His words, if we strive to believe Him more and more, we will start by living one day at a time, letting tomorrow take care of itself. Already we will have made progress if we refuse to see the whole future of a child contained in today’s accomplishments, successes and failures…
…Spend time listening to Him, and let Him tell you what He desires for your family. It may be unschooling… Whatever it is, you will recognise it by the peace it brings to you and your children. Do not settle for anything else."
Did you see the free giveaway for this book? Perhaps you'd like to enter. I could add your name…
I hope you'll feel welcome to return and share more of my posts, and stop and discuss… I'm always happy to share my experiences and offer any help.
God bless!
Hi Sue, yes I would like to enter for the free give away. How do I go about it?
Believe it or not, I'm actually going through all your entries under Homeschooling stories because I find them SO inspiring! And since you have so highly recommended Suzie Andres book, it's on my must-read book list now :).
Somehow while reading your posts, I find it very comforting because they speak directly to my concerns, things that I have yet to find answers to, somehow your experiences help bring the message home for me :). Thank you! Your blog is already on my favorite list to visit :).
Wei Yun,
I feel so honoured that you're reading all my homeschooling stories. Thank you! We are all different as families but it can be good to share and encourage each other along. I guess the details of homeschooling may vary from family to family but we can still share common principles.
I don't know if you have noticed but most of the links to these stories lead to my other blog, Sue Elvis Writes. The stories are also on this unschooling blog but I need to update the links. I must get around to doing that!
I guess we all have our concerns about homeschooling. We want to do the best for our children and not risk their education in any way. Perhaps the experience of having homeschooled 4 children all the way from kindy to university entry has given me the confidence I used to lack. I am really enjoying my younger children because I know unschooling works and is the right fit for us. I no longer worry about the little things and just enjoy my girls. I wish I'd been so sure about what I was doing with my older ones! But I don't think any real harm was done during my times of trial and error. Children are resilient!
I hope you also find the confidence and knowledge to overcome your concerns. I think homeschooling should be enjoyed!
I'm sorry Wei Yun, but the giveaway is over. I drew the winners a few days ago. I would still recommend Suzie Andres' book though. It's available as a paperback or Kindle book from Amazon.
Please stop by any time and say hello.
God bless!