Comments on: Unschooling: A Day in Our Life (March 2017)

By: Paula

Paula — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:47:20 +0000

Hi Sara, Your blog is wonderful; beautiful pictures, engaging stories and a take on "education" that I am fast falling for. I stumbled across it when I needed it most it seems! Have been reading many of your posts, just wondered if you have any guidance on the legal aspect of unschooling? I am so keen and about to approach this with my husband (we have a miss 2 and a miss 4), but need some info to respond to the "how are we going to know they are keeping up" and "what about when they want to go to uni/tafe/apprenticeship/another vocation that requires some form of formal education certificate like high school certificate or UAI?" (Is it even called a UAI anymore?) Do you have any info or advice on where to research on this? P.s we are in NSW. Thanks so much, and well done on the blog and being such an awesome, loving and engaged parent

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:02:54 +0000

Hi,
I really appreciate that you share with us your day. In my case I descolarice my kids for 10 months ago and they play all the day, I really like it. It is like they are getting back all the time they lost with out playing at school. They don’t want to read, to paint, to write, to investigate … they only play.
There are 2 things that I all ready don’t like. It is:
a) that my oldest son, 12 years old, like to play minecraft all the time (for me, I think it is to much time in the computer, 6 hours).
b) that they go to bed at 11 o’ clock at night. And they wake up at 9am. I would like to be awake at 7 and to go to bed at 9. To enjoy v more the day.
Sometimes I despair.

By: Sara @ Happiness is here

Sara @ Happiness is here — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:15:05 +0000

In reply to Natalie. Hi Natalie! I just have that time if I need it. I'll just let them know I need to rest for a bit today and they can do something independently. They understand that :) I also find going out somewhere they can run and play relaxing. I can just sit and watch and they do whatever they like.

By: Sara @ Happiness is here

Sara @ Happiness is here — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:13:30 +0000

In reply to Sneha. Only when they decide to do it for themselves, which is quite often because it's everywhere in daily life :)

By: Sara @ Happiness is here

Sara @ Happiness is here — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:12:46 +0000

In reply to Heather. We just use washable paint, or no clothes haha

By: Sara @ Happiness is here

Sara @ Happiness is here — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:10:45 +0000

In reply to Jessica. They mainly decide themselves now! We have everything set up so they can see and reach anything they need. They know what's available. When they were younger I would set out paint and things for them because they couldn't do that themselves so I guess it just progressed from there and now they do the same kind of thing for themselves :)