Comments on: “I couldn’t homeschool, I wouldn’t know what to teach them!” https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:08:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Sara @ Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-111876 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:08:49 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-111876 In reply to Anna.

Oh yes we didn’t do many of the activities. They just go for it, like a box of loose parts πŸ™‚

]]> By: Anna https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-111532 Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:32:04 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-111532 Can I ask more about speilbagen? Do you just let your girls explore the materials as they wish? The website looks quite curriculumy and we are unschooling so just thinking if it’s worth it! My daughter is 4. Thanks!

]]> By: Everyday Parenting: The Sex Talk | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-77007 Wed, 03 May 2017 03:52:30 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-77007 […] approached it like I would with anything else they are learning, by encouraging them to discover the answers themselves and providing more […]

]]> By: Liz https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-75957 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:36:33 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-75957 πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ The term unschooling is like a swear word in our homeschooling communities, because the moment you mention that you are "unschooling", moms can just not fathom that your kids will and can learn without a set curriculum, but after my observation I am convinced that they will learn less if I have to force a subject on them. My oldest will "submerge" herself in a subject and we won't be done with it until she knows all about the subject. It AMAZES me how she retains the information and even months later can tell someone else in great detail what she has learnt about various interests. Mind blowing! I read an interesting thing that made so much sense to me - teach your children from your own passions and interests & your love for learning will ignite theirs for life. So true. I also feel that once children can read, then the world is their oyster! There can't be a "gap" in your education - if you don't know about it, then read up about it. What's the big deal??? Then again , at an unschooling convention we had recently, there were two brothers who can't read at all, yet their knowledge about nature and physics is on a level of that of top scholars and experts from all over the world ask their advice!! Ha! Imagine that. Amazing. (They are in their 20's I think. Was never interested in learning to read - too busy being outside) Anyway! Love our Spielgaben set - just a pity we don't use it as much as I imagined. Thanks for always posting what you guys are currently reading and favorite books - my kids enjoy the same themes.]]> “Unschooling” – surely we can come up with a different word for it! It was here way before the institution of schools was around….I guess I don’t like the word “school” in it. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
The term unschooling is like a swear word in our homeschooling communities, because the moment you mention that you are “unschooling”, moms can just not fathom that your kids will and can learn without a set curriculum, but after my observation I am convinced that they will learn less if I have to force a subject on them. My oldest will “submerge” herself in a subject and we won’t be done with it until she knows all about the subject. It AMAZES me how she retains the information and even months later can tell someone else in great detail what she has learnt about various interests. Mind blowing!
I read an interesting thing that made so much sense to me – teach your children from your own passions and interests & your love for learning will ignite theirs for life. So true.
I also feel that once children can read, then the world is their oyster! There can’t be a “gap” in your education – if you don’t know about it, then read up about it. What’s the big deal???
Then again , at an unschooling convention we had recently, there were two brothers who can’t read at all, yet their knowledge about nature and physics is on a level of that of top scholars and experts from all over the world ask their advice!! Ha! Imagine that. Amazing. (They are in their 20’s I think. Was never interested in learning to read – too busy being outside)
Anyway! Love our Spielgaben set – just a pity we don’t use it as much as I imagined. Thanks for always posting what you guys are currently reading and favorite books – my kids enjoy the same themes.

]]> By: Sara @ Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-75848 Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:44:37 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-75848 ❀❀ My pleasure. ]]> In reply to Maria.

❀❀❀ My pleasure.

]]> By: Maria https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comment-75847 Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:41:56 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410#comment-75847 You are so inspiring to me! Thank you for sharing with us!

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