*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…
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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…
A Short Guide to Effortless Learning
I’ve recently finished reading Leo Babauta’s The Effortless Life (not an affiliate link). For those of you who haven’t heard of Leo, he writes on his blog Zen Habits about living a simple, mindful life and by creating positive habits by taking small steps one at a time. The Effortless Life speaks about having a…
How Children Can Invite Opportunities into Their Lives
In my last post, The Secrets of Expertise, I discussed Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success. In that book, he points to two main reasons why many people have become super successful – putting in an enormous amount of practice in their area of expertise- 10,000 hours- and being born into extraordinary circumstance….
10 Non-Traditional Christmas Movies for Homeschoolers
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? It’s a Wonderful Life? A Christmas Carol? When it starts to get cold outside (at least where I live!), I love to snuggle up in a blanket on the couch with the kids on a Friday afternoon and watch a great movie. We love watching all…
Nov 2011 Monthly Interest-Led Learning Resource Guide
I love reading homeschooling sites and blogs. It’s fun getting a peek into other families’ lives, but the main reason I love to read them is to steal their idea. We’ve never before lived in a time when we have access to so many great ideas and resources at our fingertips at any time of…