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Family Arizona field trip (via Pennsylvania, by road trip)
Note from Joan: This post comes completely courtesy of my fiance, Dan, who embarked upon an epic Arizona field trip adventure with Sarah, made notes about the whole thing and then wrote them up for...
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Awesome unschooling gift ideas
I can’t believe it, but we are celebrating the 18th birthday of our favorite unschooler in March 2018. She’s notoriously hard to buy for; while she’s got some interests and hobbies (hello yes please...
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This is what 18 looks like
At 1:25 p.m. March 24, 2000, my world changed forever. Today, this is what 18 looks like. I want to remember these days forever… not just the big moments (like Sarah getting her new Chromebook from her...
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Unschooling: Our March 2018 adventures
Hey, it’s all of us! So… it’s been a while since I did an “official” wrapup, though I did share the biggest highlight of Sarah’s December and January, her cross-country trip with Dan to Arizona. I had...
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Dare to be different: Homeschool learning from literary rebels throughout...
“It’s better to stand out in a crowd than blend in.” That’s the caption my 18-year-old daughter, Sarah, put on one of her Instagram stories recently, along with a note that said “I will never stop...
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Unschooling: Our April 2018 adventures
Sarah and Chris picked up this new friend, Whiskers, at an antique store. April was a bunch of unschooling fun, and one REALLY BIG thing happened – we are officially “done” Sarah’s compulsory education...
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The ultimate guide to creating an unschooling high school transcript
When we pulled our daughter, Sarah, out of public school in the middle of sixth grade, and moved toward an unschooling lifestyle, we had relatively few critiques of our learning from life approach. In...
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What unschooling after high school looks like
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks inundated with back-to-school photos from friends across the country on Facebook. Some of our friends have younger kids; some have students still in high school;...
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The 100 best teen art supplies
Art has been a huge part of our family’s life since we began homeschooling in 2012. Unschooling art has taught all of us that there is more to being creative than whether you can correctly replicate a...
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Conversational Korean: From sparring to snacking and beyond
This is a serious-language-learning face. One awesome thing about my son, Ashar, is that he has always loved languages. He began kindergarten in a class with a Spanish-speaking aide, and she worked...
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