Unschooling Voices (main page)

Unschooling Voices is a monthly collection of writings (mainly from blogs) on the topic of unschooling.Details:You can submit up as many posts as you’d like. They can be old or new posts. You can even submit a post that you read on someone’s else’s blog (don’t forget to ask their permission). While most of the submissions are from blogs, Unschooling Voices welcomes all kind of information of interest to the...

E-mail submissions to Unschooling Voices -# 7

These five contributions were submitted through e-mail and will be included in Unschooling Voices # 7. Karen:When we pulled our children out of school almost 3 years ago, I was aware of’deschooling, so we decided to give it 6 months and see how it went. Well, it ended up taking about a year before both girls got into the groove of homeschooling and then a little longer for unschooling. As a parent I think I still find...

Corners of my Home

Corners of my Home Originally uploaded by Joanne G.. Here is another submission to the “Corners of my home” Flickr group. This is in my kitchen. The walls are a sand color but they showed up more white in the picture. The top two shelves have waterfalls and the bottom has a snowman basket that holds our mismatched cloth napkins. Share ...

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Rue tagged me

But first, a little plug for Rue’s book, Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life., Okay, back to the matter at hand. I’m supposed to list 6 weird things about myself. That’s an easy one. LOL!! 1. I’ve had tourists take pictures of me. I was working in Greenich Village in NYC and some tourists from Texas asked if they could take a picture with me. They said they had never seen a punk rocker with a...

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my 44th birthday. Thanks mom. My daughters each made me a card and gave it to me with breakfast. My husband left me a note on my computer saying “You still look 29. I love you”. We’ll celebrate this weekend when everybody has more time. I asked for a memory card for my digital camera so we’ll see if I get it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep a lid on the way you feel and you will avoid...

Last call for Unschooling Voices (February edition...

The February edition will be out on February 1st so if you were planning on submitting something, please try to have it in before then. Here is the link for all the details. If you have a blog or website and can post a reminder, it would help get the word out. Thanks so much!! Share

Does this count as P.E.?

I’ve wanted to share a picture of our playset for a while now. My kids love playing, reading, talking and listening to music while on it. As I was uploading the pictures, I remembered something though. One of the weirdest homeschooling questions I’ve ever been asked was how my kids do P.E. because they’re not in school. Who in their right mind would depend on the public school system for physical activity?...

Day 173-Buddie’s great escape.

My iguana, Buddie ran away from home last week. It’s not the first time and I don’t think it will be the last. You see, this time of year is when she would be preparing an area to lay her eggs. Iguanas can produce eggs even without a male iguana, they just won’t be fertilized and Buddie has, when she was younger, laid as many as 50 eggs over a two day period. In the past, she has gone through great lengths...

Learning without school

Jacqueline (8 year old) attended “Thinking Day” with her Brownie troop (she’s a 4 year Girl Scout). The theme was “Friendships around the world”. Each troop created a display for their chosen country and Jacqueline’s troop did America. Her troop leader, Sharon (who we love!!) told Billy that Jacqueline knew more about the American flag than anybody else. Billy jokingly said “Hey-not...