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life is not a unit study

June 19th, 2010
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Recently I was listening to another great program by Sarah Parent from her show Humans Being–a Radical Unschooling and Gentle Parenting Podcast. The topic of this particular show was something called “strewing.” Strewing, as Sarah explains, is defined in different ways by different people, but most simply it is the leaving about of “stimulating” materials [...]

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gentle steps towards unschooling ourselves

May 1st, 2010
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Just about over two years ago, Christine and I made a committed decision not to pursue traditional public or private school education for our son Aidan. Rather, we decided to homeschool. “Homeschool”–that’s what we called it  Joyful Livingtentatively when we decided. It’s the most recognizable term referring to a wide array of alternative approaches toward [...]

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