earthmothergypsy

Hi everyone!

I thought I better post an introduction. :)

My name is Amanda and my dh is Dan. We have 5 children (ages 21yr
ds, 18yr dd, 15yr ds, 6 yr dd and 2 yr dd). Our oldest graduated
from PS a few years ago. He felt he was too far into high school
when we brough the other kids home. We started out as "school at
homers", which usually only last a few months before we gave up.
Tried this for two years as I worked on figuring out what would work
better. After reading a number of books, I took a deep breath and we
started unschooling. The smartest move ever made. lol! Now I have
the two little girls coming up and they too will be unschooled-though
my 6yr dd wants to "so school work". Just when I feel great about
unschooling, I get a child that wants school work. She loves
workbooks and wants to "do school", so we provide them for her to use
if she desires. She gives us a lot of grief about wanting to go to
PS. For some reason I just can't get her to understand that PS isn't
the best place for her. All she sees are kids to play with, not what
PS really is about or like. Let me tell you, she would not be able
to handle the strictness of PS. This child does not like sitting
still and would be very head strong about her opinions which we all
know wouldn't go over well with the teachers. :)

We live in a very rural setting in the middle of the woods with tons
of wild animals around us. (A bear wiped out our bird feeders last
night!) We also have a small farm with cows, chickens, a horse,
ducks and pigs---oh and rabbits, a cat and a fish and an incubator
full of eggs. lol!

We try to live as back to basics as we can right now and are always
working at being more self sufficient. We use natural healing and
herbals, we homebirth, attachment parent, and live simply.

I look forward to getting to know everyone here better and learn more
and more.

~Amanda