Just Enough and Nothing More

We’ve all experienced it - that fear, in the middle of the night, that the decision to homeschool will ruin our kids. Here’s a trick to deal with homeschool fear and anxiety.

When we are all doing our best art, it make the world a better place.

Although we are not full-fledged unschoolers, one of the reasons unschooling is appealing to me, is because kids get exposed to things they wouldn’t come to if their learning was directed by school/me/the standards.

Deschooling is awakening to the awesome that is in ourselves.

“This is absolutely ridiculous. This is not the type of behavior I would expect from adults who homeschool their children. Perhaps if you didn’t spend so much of your time at home you wouldn’t be searching the Internet for blogs about homeschooling.”

Those that are stuck in school, and simply say that “school is better” because they knew no other way, and understand no other way, are no different than the people who they criticize for being “narrow-minded” or not understanding the real world. Listen to me carefully on this one: school is not better simply because you went to school.

A little gem of a quote about testing that came up in an online conversation. Government testing imposes moral values on everyone.

Don’t let the fact that you have the control and time (and perhaps expectation) to be an educational micromanager lead you to believe that you are supposed to be.

Q: We are new home schooling parents of one bright young man in the 1st grade. How do we know if we are pushing him too hard or not enough? It seems Mom and Dad have a difference of opinion on this. Signed, Dad.

I am not an unschooler, and certainly not a radical unschooler. But I am definitely a radical. That’s a label I’ve had to grapple with for years. I’m ready to embrace it now that I no longer feel it attaches me unwillingly to radical unschooling. Here are some reasons why I’m not an unschooler, and why I am a homeschooling radical.