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Leonie
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Posted: Aug 31 2007 at 5:52pm \| IP Logged

A nice unschooling post at Life Without School.

I could relate to this quote -

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<<,Sometimes I feel like a failure as a homeschooler. I'm not doing it right. Heck, I'm not sure I'm even doing it at all. We call ourselves homeschoolers because we have to account for the fact that our kids aren't enrolled in school. So homeschoolers we are, but it doesn't feel like homeschooling is what we do. We don't play at teaching and learning, we just do it. The way I homeschool feels like an extension of household management. I notice what my children need, try to predict what they might like, and I do my best to provide it for them. It's like running your kitchen -- you notice when you're running out of milk and buy more of it. You can also see what's been sitting on the pantry shelf for months and donate it to a shelter or throw it away. Maybe you look through a cookbook and decided to try a recipe that looks good. How hard is that? Keeping a well-stocked home library is easy for me and shopping for workbooks or other "educational materials" is, well, shopping, and I like to shop.>>>

As I said on my blog ~
Pretty much the way I homeschool - like I shop or cook(and since I hardly cook, but do spend a lot of time with my kids and at the shops, - well, you get the idea! lol!).

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Posted: Sept 06 2007 at 7:26am \| IP Logged

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Very interesting! I could totally relate to the shopping part. Can't say that I unschool at all, but lately I've been buying a lot of Montessori stuff for my preschoolers. I was thinking about how some Mont. people call it "preparing the environment", but it could also be called a shopping spree.

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Posted: Sept 07 2007 at 5:32am \| IP Logged

Thanks, Leonie. I love the quote and I keep thinking about it. My mother-in-law and her sister are here this week. Her sister was involved in public school education for 20 years+, and got to watch us school yesterday. She said she loved the way it was going. She said it was like I was more a manager and support system! She said that the schools where she worked have been trying for years to run school that way...to make the kids more independent. She said the parents didn't want that. They wanted the teachers at the front of the classroom constantly teaching!

Again, I love the quote!

Blessings,

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Posted: Sept 09 2007 at 5:43pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Leonie I need this today. I am being slammed by feelings of doubts and failure to my dc. It would seem that everyone else is running around taking their dc to coops, soccer, ballet, science class etc, and we are just living life. We still need to harvest fruit, can tomatoes and applesauce. The animals still need to be cared for, gardens need to be tended, I cannot nor do I want to spend life in a car. I love watching my children grow and learn, yet there are days (today) that I fear I am depriving them of business. Filling the bucket does seem the way of most HS's never mind conventional schoolers.
Oh well no time to ponder I have a stage to build for our first home produced play. We have programs to write, curtains to sew, and costumes to finish up within 2 wks. I will have to feel sorry for myself later

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Posted: Sept 10 2007 at 3:02pm \| IP Logged

chicken lady wrote:

and we are just living life. We still need to harvest fruit, can tomatoes and applesauce. The animals still need to be cared for, gardens need to be tended, I

And this describes a learning lifestyle!

I think your kids are definitely learning while living life - and glad to see that this article touched a chord with several of us!

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