Hobbies and Unschooling
Part of the subtle art of Unschooling is finding ways to inspire your children and to help them find their interests. As a result, part of the ongoing process of Unschooling is exposing children to new ideas, topics and pursuits, but also to model a lifestyle of pursuing interests and hobbies. When children see their parents learning even as adults, it has a couple of important effects. Continue reading “Hobbies and Unschooling”
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The Unschooled Lens – Week 4
Week 4 of my 365 photo project exploring our Unschooling life. Continue reading The Unschooled Lens – Week 4
Bread Day
I enjoy baking bread. I like every part of the process, from feeding my sourdough starter and building dough, to slowly fermenting and developing the gluten, shaping loaves, the actual baking, and of course eating. There’s nothing quite like fresh bread, and I firmly believe that the world would be a darker and less interesting place without it. Continue reading “Bread Day”
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The Unschooled Lens – Week 3
Week 3 of my 365 photo project exploring our Unschooling life. Continue reading The Unschooled Lens – Week 3
The Unschooled Lens – Week 2
Week 2 of my 365 photo project exploring our Unschooling life. Continue reading The Unschooled Lens – Week 2
The Unschooled Lens – Week 1
Week 1 of my 365 photo project exploring our Unschooling life. Continue reading The Unschooled Lens – Week 1
Motivation to Learn – The Dad Hatter’s Unschooling Primer Part II
Do you work hard and more effectively at a challenge when it is something you want do, or something you are told to do? It’s a rhetorical question of course, and perhaps a silly one. We all probably realize that our most productive times are when we are engaged and excited about whatever we are doing. Continue reading “Motivation to Learn – The Dad Hatter’s Unschooling Primer Part II”
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Define “Unschooling” – The Dad Hatter’s Unschooling Primer Part I
As Unschoolers, one of the questions we’re often asked, is what Unschooling really is. Sometimes it seems difficult to answer because of the preconceived ideas about education that nearly everyone brings to the conversation. It’s easy to offer disclaimers, qualifiers and justification for our choice rather than simply offer a succinct definition. Continue reading “Define “Unschooling” – The Dad Hatter’s Unschooling Primer Part I”
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2015 Reading Roundup
2015 was a great year for reading in our house. We listened to a lot of great audio books as we drove around, and in September we started a new bedtime routine that involves reading a chapter book together for half an hour or so after dinner. Unfortunately we didn’t start that sooner or the list would be significantly longer. So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the chapter books we read and listened to in 2015:
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To My Son
Hello Son.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am your father. Of course you’ve already met me, in your fashion, but you don’t know me, and you don’t know what it means that I am your father. In time you’ll learn, but for right now you spend most of your time sleeping and eating, and cuddling with your mother. It will be a long time before you read this, but there are some things I need to tell you anyway.
The Dad Hatter 