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Dealing with, well, LIFE

Posted by Brenda Hoffman on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : me and my family 


Death is a part of life that we're learning to live and deal with around here.  In November my Aunt Connie died.  A good friend took us back shortly after the funeral to see the rest of my family, whom we hadn't seen in quite a while.  I then proceeded to grow really close to my Aunt Alice, whom I'd never been close to before.  Then in April she died.  A few weeks later my daughter's pet mouse, whom she'd only had for a few short months, died.  We had a funeral for him and to this day still p...
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Letting Go

Posted by Brenda Hoffman on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, In : me and my family 
Traditional schooling or even traditional homeschooling...  Things that are hard for me to let go of.

I have done both.  I grew up attending a traditional school.  Once I started this homeschool journey with my daughter, we started off as traditional homeschoolers - only to find that this really didn't work for us.
Now we unschool.

Unschooling goes against everything that is in me.  Not in a bad way.  It's just that traditional side of me tends to bulk at unschooling.  However, I have seen that ...
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What in the world is Christian unschooling anyway?

Posted by Brenda Hoffman on Monday, March 28, 2011, In : Christian unschooling 
I was doing some reading and some posting this morning on a few of the blogs I follow when I came across a big debate.  People were questioning whether unschooling or classical homeschooling (in which Latin is taught and rote math drills used) was more "Christian."  Now I honestly don't think that we were ever called to debate Christianity in these terms and especially not when it comes to our children's education.  However, I'm not going to go into theology here.  What I'd rather say is this...
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Unschooling comes later for some...

Posted by Brenda Hoffman on Friday, March 4, 2011, In : videos 
...and that is just fine too.  However, there has been a lot of talk about this lately.  For those of you who are interested in this topic, I found this video.  It is by Kelly Lovejoy, a radical unschooler who has been running the Live And Learn conference for the past 7 years now.  The video should give you a pretty thorough understanding of the process you may need to go through if you have an older child that you want to begin unschooling.  I hope that you find it as useful as I did.



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