Tag: early childhood
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Celebrate Fall With Your Kids: Autumn Equinox
Autumn is my little family’s favorite time of the year. My daughters and I try to make the most of it with outings, crafts, baking, learning, and lots of celebrating. As a child led homeschooling mama, I find the changing of the seasons are a great guide to creating yearly flow, learning opportunities, and happy…
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What Is Unschooling?
“All I am saying can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.” John Holt Unschooling is a method of homeschooling…
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Creating An Unschooling Environment
Unschooling is all about the child learning through engaging with their surroundings and then pursuing more deeply the concepts that spark curiosity and interest. The environment is key for learning to be a natural and smooth process. The environment should encourage children to explore their interests, learn from experiences, and pursue project based learning. Everything…
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The Nature Books You Need In Your Homeschooling Library
The best nature and science books for all ages you need for natural, child-lead learning.
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20 Quotes For World Schooling
Quotes are a wonderful and quick way to express a larger idea and get to the center of a thought. As a more natural minded mama, I use quotes all the time to express the importance of child lead learning and natural exploration as well as to motivate me to stick to getting out and…
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Car Seats Are For Cars: How To Not Container Parent
Car seats are extremely important and have saved many little ones’ lives. It’s important to use a car seat when in a car, however, because they’re intended for the sole purpose of keeping baby safe from an impact, they do absolutely nothing in terms of supporting the baby’s development and actually hinder development. Because they…
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How To Grow A Creative Child
Five Ways to Encourage Creative Play In Your Child Why Is Creativity Important? Creative play supports cognitive development, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills. Creativity involves cognitive processes that transform one’s understanding of, or relationship to, the world. The Conversation Children explore their roles in the world and their impact on the world around them…