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Our scrapbook: Walker-Stalker Con New Jersey
Have you caught on by now that Sarah is a pretty huge fan of The Walking Dead?? Back in October, she got to meet Norman Reedus, her hero and absolute favorite person ever, aka zombie-killer Daryl Dixon...
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Unschooling: Our annual wrapup and December 2017 adventures
Welcome to the end of 2017! This year was… different. Also it seemed to start approximately a decade ago, and included some really heartbreaking times – but some great ones too. And as far as...
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A fun family writing project: What if your stuff came to life?
Welcome to our Sentient Beings Project, a family writing project based on one question: “What if your stuff came to life?” How our family writing project began It all started with a song – specifically...
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Building an American history timeline, no textbooks required!
I always hated history. Pages and pages of textbooks filled with things done by old white guys? Not really my jam. Point of irony: Sarah LOVES history. Her dad, Chris, and my fiance, Dan, are pretty...
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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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Unschooling: Our October 2017 adventures
October… went fast. And also seems like it was like, a year ago, now that I’m finishing this post in mid-November. How is it almost Thanksgiving, and thus almost Christmas, and thus almost 2018? I...
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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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