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 moreNurturing 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 moreBook 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 moreTravel and Learning: 12 Topics to Take Beyond Textbooks