We've been unschooling since before they could talk! When education is this fun, why wait? Why even separate it?
If your kids don’t have to get up at some arbitrary time to learn, why force them to go to sleep?
I'm so glad we found the game called Slither.io, a browser-based game that has helped our three year old start to figure out how to control a computer. I wasn't trying to find a way …
We've passed this farm many times when we pass through Orillia on our way up North. The car seats for the kids when they were younger put them at an angle where they couldn't see …
We set up the slackline. Right next to an unschooling family! We showed them about slacklines, they showed us turkeys! (doesn't this one like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons?) Interesting fact about city kids: They might …
Hey kiddos, would you rather go visit Farmer Tom in the morning when he's working on metal, or in the afternoon when he's working with wood? https://youtu.be/4a5c9-N3l4w There's always something interesting at 'Farmer Tom's' farm! The first …
Super exciting day in the rainy grass out by the treeline...Hopping everywhere! Frogs, toads, and baby crickets & grasshoppers. They hadn't gotten to interact with so many of them before, they were quite impressed; hopping …
Would you like to put your shoes on and go build a fire? Excitement from the time he helped me move the wheelbarrow till he put it out like Marshall with a hose #pawPatrol She was asleep …
What do you do with a toddler who loves the music time you have together, but you aren't a music teacher and you only really have some plastic instruments and a banjo you only have …
Well look who learned 'righty tighty lefty loosey'! My advice for people who are about to buy 'toy tools' for their wee ones, let them use the actual tools! A socket wrench, baggie full …
Hey, go run to that tree and back! Wow, great job! Hey, go run to that tree and back! What is your favourite way to incorporate exercise into your day? This is an example from just a 10 minute …
This was exciting a couple of times. At first, I showed them the dead wasp in the spider web. A whole 'even the mighty wasp can get stuck in a tiny web' kinda …
I know 'socializing your kids' sounds like you are training dogs, I will probably use the term often, just because people who read it know will get what I'm talking about. Among the many unschooling and …
I don't want to make their unicycle lessons feel like 'lessons'. So we bring them out with us to places here and there and get a minute or two more of practice. You may or may …
I figured he understood not going too fast down a hill, I've told him several times throughout the years (at hills) and always made sure to keep him going slow. (just in case) Well, today just …
A month or two after my kid could reach the table, I kept my 'fancy camera' at the edge of it. Right next to all the computer stuff. All of which were, and still are, …
So I ask the the five and almost three year old, ‘Anyone want to make a giant unicycle shadow video out in the dark?’ I told them it would not be dark enough for 20 minutes. …
Kids tossing and turning? Just can't get them to go to sleep? Go out and learn! The world is a different place at night. I found a $20-$30 LED work light, and brought it outside …
This one is pretty straightforward...if you put sidewalk chalk into puddles, it gets sciency pretty quick... Why stay inside during the rain? They don't mind being that wet, and even colder, at the splashpad! It runs down …
Why separate learning from play? Here was a neat little impromptu climbing adventure on the way home from our adventure. The trees along our river are quite large and old. Seems one of them had gotten …
Here's a nice little gem we found on our way to mom's work, a lake surrounded by trees and a walking path, nestled in near the industrial area of town. A little section of nature that …
There were several great examples of unschooling here. We went to our local dam to check it out. What would they be interested I wondered; water levels? water pressure and flow? lake/river transition? Height? …
