Summer Solstice.
Welcome summer, midsummer, midyear.
Half-way through this year’s turn around the sun.
Time for celebrations and of course, reflection.
I love using the rhythm of nature as periodic check-in points, to ask:
Unschooling
Nurturing Unlabeled Seeds, Allowing Kids to Bloom
Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll get or in which season it will bloom. I love this quote shared by a mom … Read more Nurturing Unlabeled Seeds, Allowing Kids to Bloom
Book Review: Homeschooled Teens by Sue Patterson
What do 75 homeschooled teens say about their lives? Sue Patterson lets us hear their voices in her new book Homeschooled Teens: 75 young people speak about their lives without school. Sue created a survey of 30 questions covering many aspects of the life of a homeschooled teen that we parents – and teens- considering … Read more Book Review: Homeschooled Teens by Sue Patterson
Travel and Learning: 12 Topics to Take Beyond Textbooks
Breathing in the air and aromas, walking in the footsteps or examining firsthand what I have studied or read about is thrilling. I get goosebumps just remembering the first time I: stood under the towering, majestic Redwoods I’d studied in Botany had a slow meaningful conversation in Spanish about education with a woman in the … Read more Travel and Learning: 12 Topics to Take Beyond Textbooks
10 Attitudes to Spread the Love of Learning
Even when you choose to unschool, as a parent you will have moments when you are the teacher. Don’t worry if you don’t have a teaching credential. The critical elements that make a great teacher are often not taught in college, nor are they required to earn a teaching credential.
So, you may be asking yourself these questions:
How can I be the best teacher for my kids?
As a self-directed learner, how do I become my own best teacher?
How does a great teacher spread the love of learning?
Close your eyes for a moment and remember the best teacher you ever had. Maybe it was in a Sunday school or summer camp. Think of someone who was a great teacher in your life- not necessarily a classroom teacher. It could be a coach, music teacher, scout leader, professor, parent, neighbor, or mentor. Perhaps it was a friend.
Can you recapture the good feeling of that learning experience? What did you learn? How? What was it about the teacher and how they interacted with you that made it great? How did they make you feel? Jot those down.
Protected: Is asking for what you need hard for you? Here’s something to help.
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