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May 5, 2012May 2, 2012

A Year in the Life of an Interest-Led Learner 2011-12 (video)

Each month I share with you the activities and resources our family uses on our interest-led, unschooling journey. But I don’t usually share pictures of my family.

It’s not that I don’t want to share. I do. It’s just that I decided the major focus of this site will be to talk about ways we can provide a life of adventure, passion and connections with our kids.

Now, that said, I was thinking that maybe you wouldn’t mind just a little  better glimpse of our day to day lives. And the best way I can think of to do that is to share pictures.

Maybe it’s because I’m a visual person, but I think that when you can really see into someones elses’s world through pictures or video, it helps you become just a little closer to them.

Each year, I put together a birthday DVD for the kids. I pull pictures from the entire year, highlights of the special things we did and places we went to, and put them in chronological order along with a few songs on a DVD. I plan to do this every year, and then when the kids turn 18, I’m going to combine the highlights from all the years onto one DVD to play at a special birthday celebration.

I’d like to share with you the DVD that I put together for them. I hope it helps give you a little better idea of what our family is like and the life that we live.

Photo Credit: JnL

Do you have any special way to remember the highlights of your family’s year?

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Hi! I'm so happy to have you here. My name is Christina Pilkington. Those are my two wondeful children in the picture above (they're twins!). We daily live a life of passion, adventure and connections.

Our philosophy of learning is to dive into life and take in all that interests and amazes us, on our own time and in our own way. We're particularly interested in travel, community-based learning, and exploring the world.

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