Providing an education out of the classroom..
A lot of people I meet and chat to really seem struggle to grasp the concept of how you can provide an education without piles of workbooks or forced lessons because “Kids just want...
Category: Unschooling
Rock climbing!
See the tiny little spec at the top of that massive rock wall? Yep, that’s Jaiden! For years now I have encouraged Jaiden to push his own limits. To now be at a point...
What is unschooling?
Unschooling, so what’s the deal with that? With media attention often being focused on families who unschool and allow their kids to eat chocolate for breakfast and stay up until 1am every morning playing...
Learning, it’s all about perception..
Some look at this and see a child messing around on a pool table when he should be at school learning. As an unschooler, I see something else.. I see a child who...
Lessons in the freezing cold!
What do you do when it’s 7am, 2 degrees and there’s frost on the table? Well, naturally you crack out your Mad Mike Whiddett Hotwheels car and do some ice drifting! Duh! It’s also...
Dealing with negative social interactions
Following on from my last socialization article (here), I’d like to both share a story and address a couple of comments on facebook about the need to develop coping strategies for dealing with difficult...
Learning social skills without schooling.
Do children really need to go to school to learn social skills? I think not.. For whatever reason, there appears to be a notion amongst the general public and professionals (paediatricians and psychologists in...
I met some new homeschool kids today
Today I went to a Parkour and Gymnastics class at the PCYC Bathurst with some homeschool kids. I did some fun stuff but one thing I could not do is climbing up the big...
I sat in a Ford GT40!
Yesterday at Bathurst I went in a rare race car, it’s called the Ford GT40 and it is my favourite car. Henry Ford made the GT40 because Enzo Ferrari did not want to sell...
Unschooling camp 2018!
Last week we went to a unschooling camp at Cobb and Co. I made lots of new friends and saw some old friends but some friends did not come which made me a bit...
