My three children (now 13, 11 and 8) have been unschooled their entire lives. Most recently we have embraced the "radical unschooling" approach, which to me means that as a parent I trust my children's interests and preferences in all areas of life and view the act of living as an act of learning. That is, we are learning all the time, whether we are reading, playing, using media, being outside, inside, talking, listening, and on and on. This means we no longer limit media or control their food choices, which is something we had done in the past.
I recently got back into the Unschooling Circles: chatting with Dayna Martin on FB, joining Sandra Dodd's Always Learning Yahoo Group, and reading Sandra's Big Book of Unschooling, and registering for our second Life Is Good Conference in Vancouver, WA. All of this was getting my blogging juices flowing, but it wasn't until I saw this segment on Unschooling on the Today Show that I decided to blog once again about our experiences as an unschooling family. (I blogged about our unschooling life years ago, but that blog was deleted.)
The commentary on this segment showed such a general lack of understanding about what living and learning is all about that I decided I wanted to share our unschooling experiences with others so that people who are open-minded and interested have examples of people living and learning and loving life. There are many other blogs where families share their unschooling lives and I appreciate so many of them. I hope that this blog will be a welcome addition to the Unschooling Blogs because unschooling certainly is a viable parenting and educational option for many, and people need to know that it exists - and that it works (whatever that means).
So, here we go - the life of a regular unschooling family. Well, maybe not so "regular", but you'll read more about that as this project moves along.
It's two healthy unschooling boys - Eli (13) and Avery (11).
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