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8 Ways for Kids to Connect Online
  • May 3, 2020
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8 Ways for Kids to Connect Online

Our normal weeks see us meeting up with friends for two whole days every week. As you can imagine, things have been […]

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A Week in Our Life Without School
  • April 26, 2020
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A Week in Our Life Without School

These are strange times we are living in! We haven’t seen any of our friends for weeks and I am more thankful […]

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About Those Colour-Coded Schedules…
  • April 18, 2020
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About Those Colour-Coded Schedules…

The schedules. I see them floating around everywhere. Colour-coded expectations and tedium. Time for maths, time for writing, time for chores, time […]

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Isolation-Schooling? 7 Ways to Encourage Learning Without School
  • March 29, 2020
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Isolation-Schooling? 7 Ways to Encourage Learning Without School

I’ve written previously about the importance of not creating a school at home (if you haven’t read that yet, read it first […]

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Self isolating? Please don’t create a school at home!
  • March 25, 2020
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Self isolating? Please don’t create a school at home!

My children have never stepped foot inside a school. At 11, 9, 6, and 4 years of age, the most they know […]

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Top 5 Outdoor Resources for Kids
  • March 18, 2020
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Top 5 Outdoor Resources for Kids

Outdoor resources for kids that will encourage more time outside. As I write this I can hear the bangs from outside as […]

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If you're unschooling and you go through a period
If you're unschooling and you go through a period where it feels like nobody is doing very much... welcome lol. We're currently in the middle of that because of a virus.

In general though, not every week in our house is full of impressive projects, deep interests, and children enthusiastically researching things from sunrise to sunset.

Sometimes things are more quiet. At those times, I try not to immediately assume something is wrong, or unschooling isn't 'working'.

Instead, I just try to pay attention to what IS happening. Are they happy? Resting? Seeing friends? Reading? Gaming? Making things? Talking? Thinking? Recovering after a busy period? Enjoying having nowhere to be?

Or do they actually seem flat, bored, disconnected, and like they need something new? Those are two different scenarios.

If everyone seems content, I don't think we need to manufacture busyness just so our homeschool looks more reassuring. But if life is actually feeling a little boring, then I'll do something about it. Change up our routine, go somewhere new, invite people over, pull out forgotten materials, find an event, suggest an idea, or start something myself. 

There are lots of options, but a quieter season could also be totally normal and necessary too!

#unschooling #lifewithoutschool #homeschooling #homeeducation #homeschoollife #howtounschool


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