❓Unschooling Q&A + Adventures
Excited To Share With You This Week!
I run a few (ok, many) homeschooling and unschooling groups on facebook and often will answer member questions. Here are a few questions from this week: "Does anyone have experience with how long the deschooling process will be?" There is no time limit and for some families it may take a long time. That doesn't mean that academics are being ignored during this time. Deschooling is literally an adjustment period for students and facilitators to let go of school minded thinking. Fear of not getting a good education is very real and it can take some families more time than others to understand and feel confident in life learning.
"Will they naturally want to start learning or does it require encouragement?"
Again, learning never stops. For anyone. If we want to encourage expansion of knowledge in our students, the very best way is by example. By diving into our own passions, we show our students how it's done, just like when they learned to walk, and talk. No school, no schedule, no worries needed.
"My tween doesn't like math but I feel that math and english are important essentials..."
Usually it's not a dislike of math that students have but a dislike of the way school requires us to look at math. Math is everywhere. And that's coming from a person who HATED math until after the age of 30.
I personally unschooled math so I KNOW that there's no reason to worry, it's never too late.
Baking, board games, Minecraft, construction and drawing are all activities that bring math to our lives naturally. And the list is endless.
With Unschooling, we can let go and let the learning happen. Instead of a subject list to tick off, each day I point form journal what we do and then sort them into subjects we have covered naturally. In 7 years of journaling I always end up with more subjects than I can write down!
Unschooling really takes the worry out of education. It's not a system, it's a mindset.
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THIS WEEK
Hope took some selfies and we finally got a pic up of her new ferret toy she ordered online. We played in the snow, hung out at the barn and enjoyed the abundant nature all around us.
We went shopping, so it was time for another Hope and Mommy drawing session!
This month our family has decided to do a whole 30 menu for the month of February so we were excited to buy all we need to start our journey. Hope is really into this challenge, as are both Jaze and I! We'll keep you updated on how it goes!
There was minecraft, wildcraft, hollow night and animal jam, Hope really wanted to show me a movie called wolf walkers and we all enjoyed the newest episode of wandavision.
Hope has been eager to talk, turning away from her screen to engage with us, much to my delight. She loves to hear stories of the past about everyone and to tell jokes and make us laugh.
Of course Hope has drawn, something she does several times a day. Lots of roleplay, independent and group and so much more. We're truly #nevernotlearning.
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MY SESSIONS:
Feb 3 - How To Unschool
Feb 4 - How To Build A LARP Dagger!
Feb 6th, 1pm - Zoom call with several other Unschool Advocates, including Pam Laricchia and Judy Arnall.
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Wendy
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About the Author
Wendy Elizabeth Hart - Author, Illustrator, is a radical 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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