There’s a movement within the home school movement that emphasizes completely child-lead learning. No curriculum, no textbooks (unless the child wants one), and from what I can understand, no structure beyond the normal routines of the family. This approach to education is called unschooling.
I’ve gone back and forth over how I feel about unschooling. I’ve [...]
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What do they need to know?
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Chewed out for home schooling
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This past Friday my girls and I went to Harvest Farms with the Northern Colorado Home School group. They have a corn maze, a place where you can feed and pet various farm animals, a barrel train, and wagon-shaped sandboxes that are actually filled with corn.
L wanted to play in the “corn box,” so we [...]
