Spielgaben Archives - Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/tag/spielgaben/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:28:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 74338626 Why Balance is an Unrealistic and Limiting Goal https://happinessishereblog.com/balance-unrealistic-limiting-goal/ https://happinessishereblog.com/balance-unrealistic-limiting-goal/#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2017 04:43:58 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=16880 The other weekend my kids spent about 12 hours playing with Lego. Seriously. They stopped to eat and that was about it. […]

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]]> https://happinessishereblog.com/balance-unrealistic-limiting-goal/feed/ 12 16880 “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/ https://happinessishereblog.com/i-couldnt-homeschool-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-teach-them/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:30:47 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=15410 There was a time when I was overwhelmed by the thought of having to ‘educate’ my children, as if it was something I […]

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