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Celebrating the legend of Vincent Price
Our family has always loved classic horror movies. You know the type – Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dracula, and all their incarnations. And when Sarah was 9 years old, she and her dad watched The Last...
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Unschooling: Our April 2016 adventures
Happy May! This is really a busy time of year for us, hence the delay sharing our April updates about what unschooling looked like in our family. Dan, me and Sarah at the Plymouth Meeting mall’s...
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The bookshelves of a house of unschooling bibliophiles
We have a lot of books. And a lot of bookshelves. That said, this post might have also been titled “people who love IKEA Kallaxes” or “people who love stuffed animals,” and you will certainly see a lot...
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Come with me if you want to learn about Arnold Schwarzenegger!
Get to the choppa! Come with me if you want to live! I’ll be back! These are quotes we hear almost daily in our house, because Sarah is an absolute devotee of...
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Happy birthday to the original James Bond, Sean Connery
It’s the brogue that gets you. Whether he’s looking dapper swilling his martini glass in a three-piece suit or resplendently regal in his royal robes, it’s Sir Sean Connery’s voice that draws you in to...
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Unschooling: Our July 2016 adventures (plus some May and June highlights!)
Early summer is alpaca baby season! This is Sarah with Mac (Macintosh), one of this year’s crias. Happy August, everyone! I’m excited to share a roundup of what our family’s unschooling has looked like...
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The unschooled version of an 11th-grade-ish curriculum plan for 2016-17
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks inundated with back-to-school photos from friends across the country on Facebook, but for a “living is learning” family like us, there’s nothing special about this...
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Unschooling: Our August 2016 adventures
I can’t believe it’s September already. This year seems to be flying by. It’s time to check in with a look at unschooling in August 2016, which featured some art, some alpacas, a concert, Battlestar...
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Unschooling: September 2016 Free to Be edition
Hello from Phoenix, Arizona! Dan, Sarah and I spent Sept. 27 to Oct. 6 here at the Free to Be Unschooling Conference and visiting with Dan’s family. (Honest disclaimer: I meant to post this from...
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Unschooling: Our October 2016 adventures
So let’s see… in our October 2016 unschooling adventures, we wrapped up our trip home from the Free to Be Unschooling Conference in Phoenix, AZ, took a day trip with a giant penguin, finished some...
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Unschooling: Our November 2016 adventures
As I’m writing this, our family is preparing to take a road trip to Pittsburgh for the weekend to attend Steel City Con, a comic-con event we’ve enjoyed a few times before. I kind of made a promise to...
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Chemistry plus alchemy plus magic plus gaming: Tons of homeschool fun
Disclosure: In exchange for the honest review of our experience which appears in this post, our family received a copy of the Quest for Arete Starter Set for free. We were compensated for our time...
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Unschooling: Our December 2016 adventures, a little late
Welcome to 2017, everyone! The new year marks our sixth calendar year as homeschooling bloggers, which seems really weird to me. It doesn’t look like I’ll be any better at regular postings in 2017,...
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Unschooling: Our January and February 2017 adventures
You get two months of unschooling at once in this wrapup, because I spent the early part of February traveling and with only limited internet access! As always, if you want a more frequent peek at what...
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How did we get here? 10 reasons we chose our relaxed homeschooling style
During the iHomeschoolNetwork’s 10 * in * 10 series in 2012, we were asked to write about “10 reasons you chose your homeschooling method,” which in our case is unschooling or very relaxed...
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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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Unschooling: Our March and April 2017 adventures
Our family has been BUSY for the past few months, in many good ways and a few sad ones. This wrapup of March and April will get us caught up on unschooling news through the end of what would be Sarah’s...
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Learning music theory the unschooling way
Sarah, like many 17-year-olds, lives and breathes music. She loves nothing more than popping on her Beats headphones and discovering new favorites or enjoying old ones, singing along, watching music...
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Unschooling: Our May 2017 adventures
Is your family ready for summer yet? While we don’t really have “summer break” because unschooling means our lives flow year-round, we love this season anyway as it seems to give us more ways to spend...
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Unschooling: Our June 2017 adventures
Our unschooling in June 2017 had one huge focus – Shakespeare. But amid a hectic rehearsal schedule and several sold-out performances of The Tempest, we found time to explore some of our local parks,...
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