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I just ordered this book. I love personal unschooling stories and could do with a gentle unschooling fix right now! 
Just thought I'd share...
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Leonie -- let us know what you think -- you have such good taste and it does sound great, but I'm topped off for the budget for now 
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I would be especially interested if there are any large family stories. The one thing that has gotten me about the unschooling books I have read is the one and two-child families writing them. It is hard to relate. I don't have the resources to engage my 7 kids in the many great cultural experiences and activities that these folks in the books do. We are pretty much home-bound! 
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teachingmyown wrote:
| I would be especially interested if there are any large family stories. The one thing that has gotten me about the unschooling books I have read is the one and two-child families writing them. It is hard to relate. I don't have the resources to engage my 7 kids in the many great cultural experiences and activities that these folks in the books do. We are pretty much home-bound! |
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 home bound here too!
I was JUST thinking that very same thing the other night reading the latest "Life Learning" magazine. Not that the articles aren't relevant....I LOVE the articles, the focus, the philosophy, etc. But, it IS interesting that many are written by parents of 1 or 2.
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I'll let you know what it is like - hopefully, there will be families with a mix of ages and numbers of children....
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Huh. I'd be interested to read a few of those 1 and 2 child homeschooling stories. I find that a lot of the homeschooling stuff I come across is for large families!
Maybe we should just switch bookshelves!
Perhaps we each notice and recall the opposite as it is different from our lives and therefore has information we haven't heard before? Whereas reading stuff that alines with where we are in life is filed away in the same location as already assimilated knowledge and therefore isn't specifically memorable?
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marihalojen wrote:
Huh. I'd be interested to read a few of those 1 and 2 child homeschooling stories. I find that a lot of the homeschooling stuff I come across is for large families!
Maybe we should just switch bookshelves!
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I think that's why I didn't care for Suzie Andres book, Homeschooling with Gentleness -- when she wrote the book she had a 7th grader and a baby ... it'd be alot easier to unschool with a child who knows all the basics and can work independently!
Maybe someday
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Jennifer, I think it is more the unschooling books that tend toward smaller families. I have found plenty of more "generic" homeschooling books with larger families.
So, what's on your bookshelf?
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teachingmyown wrote:
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It does seem to be out of the norm for large families to be unschoolers...or at least, publically admit that they unschool.
There is a large family (9 kids between 16 yrs and 4 months) with whom we used to do things who unschool. They are out and about quite a bit. The mom seems to thrive on doing a lot out of the home...but that's not for me.
Her blog is here: Ramblings of an Unschooling Family. Most of her posts are usually a combination of announcements for field trips/activities that she has arranged and recounting how it all went/what the kids did and learned. It would be interesting to see an occasional post from an "at home" day.
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She's probably like me and not home much!
We have 7 unschooled sons - four finished homeschooling now. And we always went out a lot - still do. I think its my personality, I like outings and social and people and being busy....
That said, today I cancelled skating to hae a quiet morning at home. 
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Mary G wrote:
when she wrote the book she had a 7th grader and a baby ... it'd be alot easier to unschool with a child who knows all the basics and can work independently!
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But Andres did unschool her son when he was young - she talks about trying curriculum but always settling on a a little bit of seat work, a lot of reading and play...
Worked here, with our large-ish family.
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We are home alot, I need the quiet in order to create....not that there is alot of quiet with 5 under 12 And a new baby goat, that for some odd reason my dd thinks needs to be in my house bleeting away
We are busy preparing for our up coming play, in which I was convinced needed the baby goat to be more authentic What a sucker of a parent I turned out to be
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We have friends who are expecting #11 & they very much unschool. They have chickens & rabbits, a big garden & raise dogs to sell. They are mostly tied to the home but very, very busy with what's going on there. I suspect there are more big families unschoolers out there than we know but they don't have time to record anything for anyone to read! My kids and I love this unschooling blog about a family of 10 who homestead.
I'm feeling kind of "unschoolish" these days. Are there any titles for an unschooling family who insists on math, latin, and reading good books everyday ? How about RC-LC - Robinson Curriculum Latin-Centered
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I'd be interested to know rough statistics about how many families who unschool are rural families, versus urban/suburban families. It seems that so many of the unschooling stories which inspire me revolve around farm life and a close proximity to the natural world. It also seems to me that especially for a larger family, having ways for children to be outdoors and busy a lot of the time would make unschooling a more workable proposition, in that you could have children occupied while you did something special with just one or two; or that you could have a lot of children participating in something interesting and learning-fertile, like making and taking care of a big vegetable garden. That kind of thing is harder to do with less outdoor space. We're a sort-of-unschooly smaller family (4 kids) in a quiet older suburb where there is some outdoor space, and we do all right, but there's not room for kids to branch out into things like raising goats! I can understand a larger family's need for more formal order, and more structured learning, when there's less space for everyone to be doing something richly experiential all the time right there at home. Not positing a rule, just an idea . . .
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Good question Sally. The families I know personally who favor a unschooling approach do all live on farms. I am trying to decide if it is neccesary??? I think for us, it just fits my personality and interest. I was raised on a farm in No. Calif. and I am one of 10 dc. I am very grateful for my education living on a farm, learning to tend gardens, animals and home. I think it has served me well. My father was very much an intellectual, we had a rich hands on life learning as well as book knowledge. Although looking back I credit my real love of learning, not to my public school experience but rather by my father's example of always reading and learning.
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Yeah, I think it's a personality and interest thing. We are SO not country people - lived country twice, nope, not for us. But we are unschoolers. Or, perhaps, more correctly - we are unschool-ish.
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Well, because I'm curious, I posted a double poll (homeschooling style/living environment) at my homeschooling blog, Saint Daniel the Stylite Academy. Actually, it's a broader poll regarding homeschooling philosophy and living environment. I have no idea what conclusions I mean to draw from it, but stop on by and vote, anyway.
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