In 2005 I created An Unschooling Life, a blog detailing our unschooling experience after adopting our three children. Over time, An Unschooling Life became a hub for unschooling support and advice. The blog has been featured in print and digital media and was home to the popular Unschooling Carnival. Iām in the process of updating and moving all the posts to this blog where they will be housed under the An Unschooling Life section. This post was originally published on September 25, 2006.
Ron and Andrea over at A Typical Homeschool asked unschoolers to answer the following question.
Unschooling my children has enabled me to see (fill in the blank).
Unschooling my children is enabling me to see that learning is everywhere. The more they are out of school, the more I see the curiosity and spark in their eyes.
Unschooling my children is enabling me to see that learning is fun and enjoyable. Learning is not filling in a bubble on a test. Learning is not being told to memorize a bunch of facts that they could very easily find, in a matter of minutes, online or in a book.
Unschooling my children is enabling me to see that their interests and passions are valid and important.
Unschooling my children is enabling me to see them…for all they are and all they can become.
Unschooling my children is enabling me to see that life really is for living and exploring and singing and creating and discovering and trying and doing and being.
What has unschooling your children enabled you to see? Comment below and drop a link to your unschooling blog if you have one.
Very Good Job Dear Ron Rennick. your answers are simply great. Thanks for sharing with us.
aamna@thenomadicfamily
I can see certain benefits of unschooling, there is a lot that can be learned outside of the classroom, but are you not worried they could miss out on the social interaction that a school gives. And also if they have no formal education this could make it difficult to find a job in the future.
We are similar. We have a short period of time each day where we work on an online curriculum and use related library books, but the rest of the time is significantly less structured. I am not sure if we are really unschooling during that rest of the time or not.
Thanks Jessica. As I said, it was a nice surprise and I thank you for thinking my words were worthwhile. š You can use my first and last name: Joanne Greco. Thanks!
Aha! Thanks Joanne. I had read and saved that from AU, I think it was but didn’t get the author. How shall I quote you? Initials, first & last name, other?? Let me know and thanks for the inspiring words. š
I changed it a bit because I wanted to add more links but I didn’t want the side bar to look to messy. What I did was link to a page of links instead of linking to the sites themselves. If you click on “Unschooling”, it’ll take you to my list of unschooling links and i believe the one you’re looking for is the last one (unschooling.info). I may have linked to their main page so when you get there, click where it says message boards.
Let me know if you have trouble finding it. Here’s the link for right now though:
http://www.unschooling.info/
This is their main page. They have a noce list of posts and articles there.
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joanne, how do I get into the unschooling link you have here on your blog? I got into the message boards for it the other day, but now I can’t! Help!