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Posted by Azra Momin on Thursday, October 1, 2015

'School time'

One of the joys of unschooling is that

there is always time to follow your passion.

We usually do a bit of reading. writing and math in the morning,

and some history and geography is bound to happen

somewhere in the day, along with whatever interests us.

We research what takes our fancy that day.

There's lots of play time, sometimes we cook together.

And there's drawing. Lots and lots of it.

Life and Learning

Idzie, who writes a thoughtful and illuminating blog about unschooling, was one of the speakers at the Toronto Unschooling Conference this past weekend.  For those who couldn't attend (like myself), she has broken down her speech and is posting it on her blog in installments. 

I just read the first part, and I really like these words of hers:

Unschooling, at its heart, is nothing more complicated or simple than

the realization that life and learning are not two separate things. 

And when you realize that living and learning are inseparable,

it all starts to truly make sense.

There are many reasons why some parents choose to not send their kids to school.  For me, it's less about the cons of institutionalized learning than it is about the pros of learning from real life, and most importantly, playing an active part in that learning - it's so much fun to discover the world along with my LittleOne, why would I not want to be part of this wonderful journey?

Do you homeschool, or unschool, and why? 

Home schooling

Home schooling has always intrigued me, and now that I have the BabyCloud, I have been thinking of it more and more.
Note to self: Look into it!

Anybody here homeschool?