Fearless Saoirse

“What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out.” John Holt

Monday, February 27, 2012

So, what are they learning?

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At the end of my last post, I mentioned that children are learning all the time, and it's only a matter of what they are learning. When...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wait for me!

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After reading some of Peter Gray's writings on hunter-gatherer systems and the way children learn, I got to thinking about slowness and...
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Peter Gray blog

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I recommend reading some of Peter Gray's blog on Psychology Today. Here's a link to one of his articles about how children educate ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Wintertime Update

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Ninja training begins early here. Ninja snowball We had a lot of snow, suddenly, but now it's gone, in traditional Northwest style. Sabe...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Blogging Weirdness

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For some reason, I was having trouble publishing posts and I recently figured out how to get the last 2 to publish. Hopefully, I'll be p...

Story Waters quote

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Here is a piece from Story Waters that a friend just posted to our Yahoo group. It feels like a celebration of Life, to me! Freedom is not ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Inner Work

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Sorry I haven't been keeping up on this blog. For me, parenting is nothing short of a complete inner overhaul. I find that my children g...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Why Unschool?

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This bit from a 17-year-old unschooling blogger is so sweet that I'm crying over here. To me, it just shows how I can best treat my chi...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Only Love

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Yummy toes! Jasmijn makes herself heard... ...and gets results. We got a trampoline! Yummy balls! Jasmijn wears her baby, too. Saucy face! L...
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Can you feel it?

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There are SO MANY things that we do not understand! (Are you still trying to? It's not possible, you might as well give up now.) Or we c...
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