Cats Meow

Thanks for the input on my question- it's all great food for thought. I
absolutely believe in the process of unschooling and do not worry about
whether my daughters are learning or not- I know they are. I'm also not
worried that they don't think they're learning- they're both very confident
and think they know everything ;-) I guess I'm torn when it comes to
labelling or pointing out their learning though. It's important for them to
know that they are capable learners and to acknowledge just how much
learning is going on, but I also don't want to separate life out like that-
it's ALL learning. And that's it, isn't it- I hate that question! When
people ask what we did today, I feel that I'm being asked to make our life
fit into their idea of what "real" learning is. And I don't want to!
(Erin's right- I did have to take ownership of the "problem")

Anyway, I did have a good discussion with my daughters tonight and I feel
better. I realised that I'd never really told them what unschooling is, so
we talked about that and what it means to all of us. I told Zoe that our
reading the Little House books could be thought of as her "history lesson",
that asking her to double the dipping sauce recipe tonight could be her
"math lesson" and it was like the light came on in her head! She said, "Oh,
then when I read the story of Romulus and Remus to Molly this morning, that
could be _her_ history lesson!?"

We decided that when someone asks again, they can tell people about the
books they're reading, the things they're building in the workshop, the
stories they're working on... and that they played all day too!

Thanks again- I'd still like to hear more!

Lyn