✔How We KNOW Unschooling Works
It's no secret that life is learning...
...but how do we KNOW that Unschooling/Freeschoolin' allows for the education of all a student's necessary subjects? "The things I have needed most in my life, I've taught myself. I KNOW unschooling works."
-Wendy Elizabeth Hart This goes for both myself and my spouse/bff Jaze.
Both of us knew how to read before we went to school. We taught ourselves to walk and talk. Our musical skills are passion led. Jaze pursued wrestling, story telling and computer science on their own. I taught myself math after going through years of school and not being able to learn it properly. We learned how to write, illustrate and publish books together, market and distribute our products and manage our business. Our family has educated ourselves on animal care of all kinds, successfully learned how to build a bountiful no-till garden, and we're in the process of mastering a healthy, nutrition-rich diet for our bodies.
We have a deep, self-taught knowledge of emotional intelligence and use it daily for creating a healthy and balanced home environment to heal from our childhood abuse experiences.
Jaze and I learned to create a safe and respectful local homeschool community, complete with annual events of more than 100 members and an online membership of over 1000. Hope has taught herself to draw, count, add, read words, operate computer programs, paint, craft, sew, design, train animals, navigate emotional conflict, regulate feelings, share authentically, swim, tell stories, ride a bike, cook and so much more...
And it won't stop there. We're all continuing to learn every day in every way. Unschooling Works!
This Week
Life has been for living, making pictures harder to take as of late. As per Covid usual, Hope and I had wonderful drawing sessions while Jaze shopped for groceries. Our horse, River, had his hooves trimmed and shaped (he's not shod) and a new batch of timothy hay arrived. We picked organic kale, spinach and zucchini and enjoyed homegrown meals. Hope and I had a 4am ukulele and drum session and we worked on our stuffie project together which is coming along nicely. Our best friends and Hope's Fairy Godparents, Kevin and Sarah, finally came to stay and we've been having a blast together. We hit up the beach on a hot day, enjoyed oven smore's (bugs were a little too intense) and kicked each other's butts in an impromptu nerf gun war. Sarah even showed Hope how her singing bowl worked and had some ukulele practice together. To escape the heat, we've been sleeping in the tent at our campsite.
Video
🐼UNSCHOOLING SUBJECTS!! How We Learn// Episode 30 - Freeschoolin'
Much Love Always,
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About the Author Wendy Elizabeth Hart is an unschooling, homesteading Mom of 2 amazing kids and wife of more than 10 years to her bff, Jaze. Together with their daughter Hope, 10, they live a life of daily discovery in rural Ontario, Canada and share it with the world to connect with other families in the unschooling community.
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