The weather is getting nice and it's time to get outdoors. The children are ready to go with tons of energy! Let them bike or hike this energy away in a...
There are no free eyeglasses. Not even at Target. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/targetglasses.asp I've stopped one moderated post that said to please...
In the car, on the way to drop David off for basketball practice, we got stuck waiting for a train to pass by. It was a looooong one. Joseph asked me out of...
-=-"How can that one train engine pull all those heavy cars? I mean, even if there's another engine at the back of the train, that still so much smaller than...
Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference Early Bird Deadline is ending soon- April 30th!! Save by registering NOW! You know the vitality of feeling supported,...
Probably has something to do with momentum...once the engine gets going, the cars glide along the steel tracks. Starting will be the hardest, as pulling up...
Hi folks! This is a reminder that the Early Bird Deadline for registering for the Northeast Unschooling Conference in Wakefield, Massachusetts August 27 - 30...
Hello Sandra--I am a radical unschooling mom and I just started a new list dedicated to unschooling resources (apparently the old one no longer exists). I...
No, the Northeast Unschooling Conference doesn't have an organized Whale Watch this year, BUT there's an amazing opportunity if your family would like to see...
Hi, My family has been hsing for 9 years. I'm transitioning into unschooling this summer. I tried to do this before but my daughter freaked a little. I...
-=-It often takes her 3 weeks to complete a week of assignments. I obviously don't enforce the schedule. Have I ruined her?!-=- Whether people here say yes or...
If people want current discussions, that's happening these days at AlwaysLearning@yahoogroups.com , but because one or more of these might matter to people who...
Please read this. Who else plans to contact the National Guard to find out exactly why only those support groups associated with HSLDA are allowed to attest to...
The requirements page sounds like just about any parent, school, curriculum provider, or organization could provide third party verification of graduation or...
... I read the pages, and I thought that the info was worded to make it seem like membership ("in good standing") of HSLDA was not so much a requirement but...
... Here's what I posted elsewhere: Yes, I did read the entire list. Option a): Here in New Jersey, homeschoolers are not under the authority of the public...
I've had a note in my desk for years that says "Find that battleaxe thing." Today I found it. What "it" is is a post from 1998, on a forum that doesn't exist,...
***A battleaxe is a cranky old woman and a pike is a fish.*** And the old woman and the fish were named after the weapons. <g> I've never caught a pike but I...
***Deb Lewis Deb Lewis*** Apparently, we are two. <g> ***people gradually add to the details of their knowledge every day that they live.*** Not Middle ages...
This week is the first week on unschooling. All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook. Well, he did go to the fitness center today &...
-=-The lessons go alright, but on the times he's home, he's basically doing nothing.-=- Lessons aren't unschooling. -=- All my son wanted to do was to play...
... Undoubtedly he's deschooling. If those two were limited in the past, either by you or by time constraints, before he can let go he needs to fill up on them...
Please disregard this and the previous email sent from this email address entitled - hey~ Do NOT go to this website I don't know what it is or endorse it in...
I wont say I am completely THERE yet but some of the things that my boys 10 and 12 have shown an interest in include.... Making fossils, Freezing insects,...
-=-We are also making an effort to find somewhere interesting to go each week that will broaden their education and interests.-=- This is a good idea. -=-I...
-=- It robs them of the opportunity to do those things out of joy and desire. It destroys their chance of having learned them on their own.=- I meant to...
Hello, my name is Jeska. My husband and I have been unschooling our two daughters, ages 6 and 8 since they were born, I guess you could say. :) We live in...