Unschooling Success Stories

  Ultimately as parents we want to do the best for our kids to put them on a path to

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Scavenger Hunts as a Learning Tool

We just got back from a family reunion in Virgina. Everyone had a great time, inspite of the 100+ degree

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Recycle Plastic Cups and Bottles into Attractive Woven Containers

We are always looking for ways to reuse or recycle things that are no longer useful. A while back I got a

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Getting Ready for our First “Official” Year of Homeschooling

We have always considered ourselves homeschoolers but this year we face our first real challenge, registering with the state. Since

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Opting Out of Standardized Tests

  We’ve all been there, sitting quietly in a room filling out bubble after bubble with our #2 pencils, but

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Peter Pan and Paper Tubes

We’re last minute kind of people so when we were told last week that our daughter needed a costume for

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Trouble in Danceland

My children take classes, lots and lots of classes; acting, fencing, ballet, circus school, art museum classes.  These are all

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How to Make a Ball Jar Sewing Kit

My girls love sewing and have been taking classes that just recently ended. For a while I considered signing them

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Who’s Judging Who? The Homeschooling/Schooling Divide.

As a home educator (homeschooler, unschooler, whatever we are) I often feel awkward around schooling families, not because I have

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Dinosaur Smash! – A Child Created Game for Learning Math and Measurement

My youngest loves to make up games and also manipulate existing games or pieces to create something new. When we

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