Child-led Projects Archives - Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/category/child-led-projects/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Thu, 15 May 2025 07:16:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 74338626 Don’t Squash Your Child’s Big Ideas https://happinessishereblog.com/dont-squash-your-childs-big-ideas/ https://happinessishereblog.com/dont-squash-your-childs-big-ideas/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:44:29 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=24234 When one of my daughters was about 5 years old, she wanted to make a robot. Not a crafted robot out of […]

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