Last year I sat down with my notebook and took several hours to plot out my goals for the coming year. I wrote down some big goals in major areas of my life, broke them down into sub-goals, and then made monthly goals. I was so proud of myself and felt that it was…
Tag: exploring the world
A Simple Everyday Dreams List
Travel around Europe for a year. Sell a screenplay. Learn a new language. Write a novel. Those are some big dreams I have. Dreams that will take a lot of hard work and dedication. Big dreams are nice to have. They’re fun. It makes you feel good thinking about them. But the problem with big…
The Key to Your Child’s Heart
*Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Krista @ Redeeming the Love of Learning. As the New Year passed, I asked my 13-year-old what he’d like to focus on more this coming year, and he responded that he’d like to become more disciplined in his learning. That was sweet news to my ears as…
Creating a System for Adventure: Monthly & Weekly Planning
Over the past week I’ve written about how I plan for mini-adventures and trips throughout the year. I first talked about how I created a Master List. Then I talked about how I incorporate my master list into a dedicated Google Calendar. If you haven’t read those posts, I’d suggest going back and reading them…
Creating a System for Adventure: Building a Master Calendar
In my last post, I talked about how to create a master list of places you might want to visit with your family this coming year. It’s really important to create a link for each place you list. This way as you go through the list, you can just click on each link and be…
Creating a System for Adventure: Building a Master List
We love to travel. Ever since my kids were 14 months old and we boarded a plane to the US Virgin Islands, we’ve gone on great adventures with them both near and far. In fact, I’m in the middle of planning a big dream vacation that we’re taking later this year. While we travel far…
50 Awesome Posts About Interest-Led Learning & Unschooling From 2011
Happy New Year’s Eve! Now is the time of year when lots of bloggers, newspapers, and magazines put out their top 10 or 50 or 100 lists. It’s the time when they highlight the best of the best from throughout the year. So, I thought, why not jump on the bandwagon? Here a…
My Top Ten Lists of our Favorite Unschooling Fun in 2011
Frequent readers of this site know that I love lists. I guess it’s just the way my mind works, but I love the way lists summarize things and present them in a simple, easy way to read. I’ve spent some time thinking about our past year. I feel blessed beyond anything I could have hoped…
5 Unusual Ideas for Celebrating the New Year
We’re almost to the end of a New Year. Has it gone fast for you? It always seems to go fast for me, yet when I reflect back at all the wonderful experiences and things I’ve done with my family during the last twelve months, it’s also seems like a long, full time, too. I’ve…
10 Out-of-the-Ordinary Winter Activities
Tomorrow is the first official day of winter. It’s already snowed a few times where I live, so the rest of my family is definitely in the winter mood. I’m not a cold person, though, so I don’t really like to acknowledge that winter is actually here until the calendar tells me it is! In…