Unschooling Chat With Sandra Dodd

Sandra Dodd is hosting a live unschooling chat this Thursday (1/29) and Friday (1/30) on AIM Chat. Check it out! Share Tags: unschool, unschooling, unschooling chat Related posts Why Whole Life Unschooling? (5) What Is, And Isn’t Unschooling (18) What Is Unschooling? (5) Valerie Fitzenreiter And Laurie Chancey Interview (2) Unschoo

Five Steps To Unschooling

This article by Joyce Fetteroll was a big help to me when I originally removed my children from school (in 2004, when they were in the 1st, 4th and repeating the 5th grade) and began unschooling. The link to Joyce’s wonderful website and the original article are at the end. Some people understand unschooling as soon as they hear about it. Others wander about in a fog of confusion, wondering how unschoolers can be so...

What Is, And Isn’t Unschooling

Unschooling isn’t so much a method, as it is a way of looking at learning. It’s seeing the learning in everything. To me, it’s much more than just dropping the curriculum, although that’s an excellent place to start. It’s changing the way you view learning and education. It isn’t leaving your children to find their own way. It isn’t brushing them off and doing your own thing while...

Rewarding (Bribing) Children To Learn

I’m not a fan of bribing children to learn. Even before I removed my children from school, I hated the message that rewarding them with pizza parties, candy and money (yes, money), was sending to them. These “rewards” were held out in front the students like a dangling carrot, with the promise that it could be theirs if they learned what the school wanted them to learn. The message? I believe it’s...

Unschooling Encouragement

A while back, a member posted to one of the unschooling e-mail lists I belong to, with some questions for unschooling parents, and she was looking for encouragement. Her questions are followed by my answers. I have several questions that I hope someone (many people – I would love to hear lots of opinions) would be willing to answer for me. 1- How old were your children when you took them out of school? I have three kids...

Ewww! Grossology!!!

If the Grossology tour comes to your local museum, I highly recommend it….if your kids (and you) enjoy learning about farts, burps and vomit. We went with our homeschool group and had a blast!! Here’s Shawna & Jacqueline outside…pretending to vomit. This was gross – you had to guess the smell…either it was feet, butt or armpit. lol Did you...

Win An Amazon.com Gift Certificate

We’re all moved into our new home here at An Unschooling Life….finally!!! It was sad to leave blogger after all the years there, but it was time to move on. The old unschooling blog will remain as is for now so people can find there way here. I still have a little unpacking to do around here (adding tags, updating links setting up the feed ,etc) but i will be back to regular posting and I want to come and visit...