{"id":197892,"date":"2008-01-03T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/homesteading-today-any-unschoolers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:47:00","slug":"homesteading-today-any-unschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/homesteading-today-any-unschoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesteading Today – Any unschoolers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I occasionally look at a bbs that a lot of my friends frequent, and I just found this post on Unschoolers, <\/a>a variant of home schooling. The misspellings are in red:<\/p>\n

As I stated I myself went to public school. The only knowladge<\/span> I feel i retained was a bit of poetry and how not to get the snot beat out of me by the three mean bullies.<\/p>\n

When my first two childern were in school, i started seeing some of the same things in them. one was a slow prcessor(by this I dont mean slow witted, I mean he could not get the work compleated<\/span> on time so the grades were low because he needed longer. They tested him , his work was perfect but he needed twice as long to do it. He is quiet so it wasnt<\/span> talking or other distractions.Just a differant<\/span> form of process. If i didnt<\/span> have the same issue I might not have picked up on it.), the other a bully of sorts(miss popularity) . I felt I needed to rescue them from such “hell”.<\/p>\n

Now they are so wounderfull. they both read well. Fell good about who they are. There arent better kids anywhere. My younger childern <\/span>are learning, all are at differant<\/span> levels. but it is all natural. They want it ,cant get enough. They are driven by the things they want for them selves. the things they want to do. No my 8 year old does not read at his expected “level”. but all the seasoned unschoolers tell me that it will come. it is comeing<\/span>.
My responsability<\/span> as mom is to always be aware.if there is a problem fix it. (We have not had any yet) and to provide all the materials, encourage and support.
My elder son is into woodworking.This requires math, reading and fallowing a blueprint at this point. He is learning by doing. He is working through an aprintaceship<\/span>. His passions also include birds.I cant tell you how many books he has read on this matter. He knows what steps he will have to take to get his falconers licence<\/span>.”All this on his own”<\/p>\n

My eldest daughter is into sewing,nitting<\/span>,and weaving. I cant help her directly here. I want to learn myself.We are looking for someone to teach us. We are trying to muddle our way through books on the matters. She has a dream to open a resturaunt<\/span>. She is 11-12 tomarrow<\/span>! She is a real good cook, and cooking for a family of 11 is giveing her lots of practice. (They are responsable for meals twice a week. No help from me.)We are working on shopping, and buddgeting<\/span>. but her mine goal is to run her home when she has her own family. I want to give her everything I can to prpair her for that goal.<\/p>\n

So to sum it all up “unschooling” in learning through life liveing<\/span>.Much Of what Ive learned i didnt<\/span> learn untill<\/span> I was teaching my childern<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmmm…who is teaching them spelling? Is anyone<\/span> teaching them anything<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I occasionally look at a bbs that a lot of my friends frequent, and I just found this post on Unschoolers, a variant of home schooling. The misspellings are in red: As I stated I myself went to public school. The only knowladge I feel i retained was a bit of poetry and how not …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}