Resolutions, and goals, and habits, oh my! The new year is a fresh slate, which like a blank piece of paper, can be overwhelming or inspiring, or both. Are you grateful for having choices but confused about which choices to make? Me, too. Over the holidays I read a book called The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly […]
Solstice End of Year Reflection: What’s Really Important?
This has been a hard year. My mom was diagnosed with ALS in February, followed by two feeding tube surgeries, a move back east and rapidly progressing symptoms. My big brother had a bad fall with complications. One sister needed a brain surgery and still needs neck surgery. And yesterday, the longest night of the […]
Review of GoFindIt, an Instant Natural Treasure Hunt Game
I love nature and encouraging people of all ages to go outside. Nature is an incredible resource for learning, health, and connection. I’ve written about how important I think connecting to nature for parenting and learning in several previous posts: http://www.lisanalbone.com/2015/09/nature-is-a-learning-resource/ http://www.lisanalbone.com/2014/04/dont-forget-to-go-outside/ http://www.lisanalbone.com/2015/08/review-how-to-raise-a-wild-child-by-scott-d-sampson/ Nature is one of the ten happiness helpers to use in […]
Making Parenting Choices: Using the Ask-Try-Do Framework to Change your Approach to Learning
I love this quote of Diane Flynn Keith: We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. I still shake my head at the time and energy we wasted when we began homeschooling […]
3 Simple Steps for Self-directed Lifelong Learning
Here is a link to my guest post titled How to Use the Ask Try Do Framework for Self-directed Learning published on the Outschool blog. OUTSCHOOL is a platform to make it easier for finding and offering activities for homeschoolers, something that would have been great to have while we were unschooling. The post is about using […]
