amarytbc

We have always leaned toward unschooling, but over the past few years
I have become more...ummm...controling. I want to get back to our
roots and toss the schedules for the rest of the year. I'm curious to
see how this will all work out with high schoolers and middle
schoolers. My dh is not quite on the same page with me as this, he
never was which is probably why we've gravitated toward planned
learning.

So, I need suggestions about letting the kids loose while requesting
some accountability to appease my husband. Would learning journals
work? Ideas?

Sandra Dodd

On Apr 22, 2006, at 6:17 PM, amarytbc wrote:

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> So, I need suggestions about letting the kids loose while requesting
> some accountability to appease my husband. Would learning journals
> work? Ideas?


Some families are keeping blogs of their lives, with photos, right
out where grandparents and friends can look whenever they want to.

There are some linked here (bottom left, I think), and some of those
might have an unschooling blogring link so you can look at others not
listed there.

http://sandradodd.com/help

Those might give you ideas. They're not too difficult to set up. You
have teens who could help you.

Sandra

Nancy Wooton

On Apr 22, 2006, at 5:17 PM, amarytbc wrote:

> So, I need suggestions about letting the kids loose while requesting
> some accountability to appease my husband. Would learning journals
> work? Ideas?

Maybe you should ask him what would appease him?

My dh wasn't too sure about unschooling at first (about 9-10 years
ago), and was also adamant the kids be in bed and stay there at a
certain time. I'd just come home from a one-day conference -- probably
the first time I heard Sandra speak -- with an armload of interesting
toys and books and a head full of inspiration. One of the books was
about finding Titanic, and included a paper model, which I decided
Mommy should put together (I really like that kind of thing :-) I was
working on it after the kids had gone to bed, but then-7-y.o. Alex got
up. He looked at the book and we talked about it as I worked; we
discovered what a fathom was, and that Titanic came to rest on the
continental shelf, not the very bottom of the ocean, and I'm sure some
more interesting things, but those stick in my mind. About a half hour
later, Alex went back to bed and I kept gluing. Dh came in and said,
"So that's unschooling." He'd overheard the conversation. I said,
"Yeah, that's unschooling." Never had an argument after that :-)

Nancy