What a 6 Year Old Should Know
Every so often, when curiosity gets the better of me, I take a peek at the school curriculum to see what my 6 year old would have been learning at school. I’m always left a little confused. Not by the...
View ArticleUnschooling: A Day in Our Life
contains sponsored/affiliate links As I’ve said before, no one can tell you how homeschooling or unschooling is going to look for your particular family. It looks so different in every home! I do love...
View ArticleHands-on Maths: Exploring Solid Shapes
As I’ve shared before, I like to set up little invitations for my kids, which they are free to use or not. Most of the time they do and other times obviously my ideas aren’t that great or exciting, ha!...
View ArticleAn Unschool Journal (April)
contains affiliate links I’m back with my second monthly installment of what we’ve been up to and LOTS of photos to share as usual. April has been a fun month with lots of play outdoors with friends....
View ArticleStop Trying to Make Everything Educational
With the push for an earlier and earlier start to academics for our kids, we all know the best thing we can do for them is let them play for as long as we can. Yet, scrolling through my facebook …...
View ArticleExploring Refraction: A Child-led Discovery
I thought I’d share with you how a typical exploration comes about in our home. People often ask how I come up with ideas for ‘activities’. It’s really not about thinking up my own ideas, but rather...
View ArticleInquiry Based Learning: Clocks
If you follow me on Instagram then you would have seen me mention this clock that the girls use before. We’ve had it for a while now and they love it. Honestly, I had no clue how to teach them …...
View Article11 Reasons I’m NOT Teaching My Children
As a home educating parent, it might surprise you to hear that I am NOT teaching my kids. Isn’t that what people do when they don’t send their kids to school? Nope! We do life. And in life there is …...
View ArticleEveryday Unschooling: Making a Documentary
Our 8 year old is passionate about animals. She just LOVES to talk about them, learn about them, read about them, see them, interact with them. Anything to do with animals, she’s there! Her favourite...
View ArticleEveryday Unschooling: Growing Bacteria
Everyone is big on experimenting here at the moment! Miss 3 is always asking to ‘do experiments’. Which for her means grabbing lots of supplies from the kitchen and mixing up ‘potions’. She loves it! A...
View ArticleStop Trying to Make Everything Educational
With the push for an earlier and earlier start to academics for our kids, we all know the best thing we can […] The post Stop Trying to Make Everything Educational appeared first on Happiness is here.
View ArticleExploring Refraction: A Child-led Discovery
I thought I’d share with you how a typical exploration comes about in our home. People often ask how I come up […] The post Exploring Refraction: A Child-led Discovery appeared first on Happiness is...
View ArticleInquiry Based Learning: Clocks
If you follow me on Instagram then you would have seen me mention this clock that the girls use before. We’ve had […] The post Inquiry Based Learning: Clocks appeared first on Happiness is here.
View Article11 Reasons I’m NOT Teaching My Children
As a home educating parent, it might surprise you to hear that I am NOT teaching my kids. Isn’t that what people […] The post 11 Reasons I’m NOT Teaching My Children appeared first on Happiness is here.
View ArticleEveryday Unschooling: Making a Documentary
Our 8 year old is passionate about animals. She just LOVES to talk about them, learn about them, read about them, see […] The post Everyday Unschooling: Making a Documentary appeared first on Happiness...
View ArticleEveryday Unschooling: Growing Bacteria
Everyone is big on experimenting here at the moment! Miss 3 is always asking to ‘do experiments’. Which for her means grabbing […] The post Everyday Unschooling: Growing Bacteria appeared first on...
View ArticleHomeschool FOMO: Missing Out On Milestones
Every so often someone will say to me that it’s hard seeing all the back-to-school photos or graduation photos their friends are […] The post Homeschool FOMO: Missing Out On Milestones appeared first...
View ArticleConfidence and Self-Esteem: How Unschooling Empowers Children
One of the main things I wished for my children was the freedom and confidence to be themselves. As young children, I […] The post Confidence and Self-Esteem: How Unschooling Empowers Children appeared...
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