Freeschoolin' with NO Chores!
Hope has never had to do chores! It is common to hear that children need to do chores in order to gain a sense of responsibility for...
Peaceful Parenting an Energy Intuitive Child
This past Friday, our family volunteered at Big Curve Acres Farm and we decided to head the beach afterward for a cool down from the hot...
Self Directed Learning: Swimming
Our Unschooler is Teaching herself to Swim! We have been hitting up the beach since the hot weather hit over the past month. There's...
Rules & Boundaries
What's the difference between Rules & Boundaries? We are a radical unschooling/Freeschoolin' Family. This means we don't use rules in...
Parenting Without Punishment
We have never punished Hope. Not even once. When we ask the question, "Is there really such a lack of natural consequences in life that...
Kids, Kindness & Our Unschooled Week
A Better World Is a Kinder World 💫I recently read a post about explaining to kids the science of kindness. It was full of positivity and...
Scared of Santa!
Everyone loves Santa Claus! Right? I remember LOVING Santa. When I think about why, it has more to do with my abusive childhood than a...
Unschooling/Freeschoolin' A "Bad Day"
Last Wednesday we had a "bad day". We had 2 car appointments, shopping to do, a snow storm to drive through BEFORE we even got to town,...
Freeschoolin' Discusses: Education Styles
There are many ways to home educate! Radical Unschooling/Freeschoolin' Also referred to as whole life learning, Radical...
Freeschoolin' @ Canada's Wonderland
What's educational about an amusement park? We're excited to share! Our family was gifted tickets by an amazing family to the biggest...
Freeschoolin': Coping with Stress
What A Week! Between a field trip I had been planning for months, running LARP games, a comic con, socializing with friends, harvest and...
Freeschoolin' A Field Trip!!!
This week we went on a field trip to St. Marie Among the Hurons village and museum with our un/homeschool community! It was a really...
Re-Parenting for Peace Part 2
Parent/Child relationships are different from others. There is a potential deepness, an intensity and an automatic responsibility that no...
Freeschoolin': Re-Parenting For Peace
What is Re-Parenting? A fancy term for re-writing negative, obsolete coping skills and patterns learned through childhood that prevent us...
Up All Night with Freeschoolin' !
Last night Hope didn't sleep. It was the Full Moon, so she was up all night while it shone brilliantly in the night sky. After being up...
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