Archive for the ‘Does this count as Unschooling?’ Category

The home schooled teen: not what you think

I’m two years away from having an official “teenager,” and I must tell you, I can’t wait for those years. This is an article aimed at the home schooled teen, learning during those so-called high school years, especially for the young adult planning to attend university.

October 18, 2009 · Monica Brand · No Comments
Tags: home schooling · Posted in: Does this count as Unschooling?, Home schooling

Watching her read

As a mother, and as a lover of fine words and stories, I will never grow weary of watching my children fall in love with reading and books. This week I witnessed Susan’s relationship with books deepen. We were at the library, and as chance had it (or maybe it was a God-ordained meeting?), our [...]

October 2, 2009 · Monica Brand · 4 Comments
Tags: fiction, Reading, Susan · Posted in: Does this count as Unschooling?, Home schooling, My Girls, Reading

Two cool things we did this summer and me with no pictures to prove it

I’ve been wanting to write about it for ages, since July for one of them, and I have no still pictures. Lame, lame, lame, Monica. You must have glorious color pictures! I know! Sorry, Blog. Please, forgive. I’m going to record a quickie blurb about both anyway, so I can mark the activities here so [...]

September 8, 2009 · Monica Brand · One Comment
Tags: homeschooling unschooling · Posted in: Does this count as Unschooling?, Home schooling

The birth of a writer

“My story was published on Nicktropolis yesterday, Mommy.” My story. This was a short story Susan wrote without any help from me, and as a intentional home schooling mom, that is saying a lot. I like to think I had enough sense to stay out of her way, allowing her to discover her love for [...]

August 31, 2009 · Monica Brand · 4 Comments
Tags: homeschooling, Susan, unschooling · Posted in: Does this count as Unschooling?, My Girls, Writing

Truth in his eyes

This is Part Two of To thrive again at home. If you are new here, you may want to read it first. Let me tell you about my first boy… The other day I was at my mom’s when she asked Peter, my nine-year-old, to read something. We were gathered in the living room, playing [...]

August 10, 2009 · Monica Brand · 16 Comments
Tags: books, home schooling, Peter, Reading, unschooling · Posted in: Does this count as Unschooling?, Home schooling, My Boys