capturing the charmed homeschool: creating clarity, confidence and vision in your homeschool
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All articles filed in Child-Inspired Learning
Child-inspired learning shifts the focus from rigid, teacher-directed curricula to fostering a learning environment driven by a child’s natural curiosity and interests. It recognizes that deep, lasting understanding arises from exploration and engagement initiated by the child, rather than solely from prescribed lessons.
How to Use Little Women in your Homeschool Celebrations
How to use Little Women in your homeschool activities or celebrations? If there is anything we can do as homeschool mamas, it is to create memory-rich (& literature-rich) special celebrations, like my oldest daughter’s twelfth birthday. Madelyn and I planned the details for weeks. We printed a play from Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women so…
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Homeschool Teen’s Perspective: How to Homeschool High School
We want a homeschool teen’s perspective on homeschooling high school, following interests, socialization, unschooling a classical education, and pursuing her life’s passions.
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a Perspective Shift on the Art and Science of an Education
There’s an art and science in medicine, I’ve been told. If one could type symptoms into the Google bar and spit out a diagnosis, would medical doctors be required? There’s a certain experience and constant exposure that surrounds the assessment and diagnoses in medicine that can’t be captured in the Google bar. Let’s get a…
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How to Encourage Independence in your Homeschool
Self-directed learning, a new term evolving from the unschool movement, enables our children to independently learn. In my early homeschool years, I lapped up all things John Holt and John Taylor Gatto. These unschool founders radically shifted my homeschool from a top-down approach. I radically unschooled for six solid months and learned that children learn,…
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How to Simplify your Homeschool (Because Complexity ain’t Fun)!
Can you simplify your homeschool life? Or maybe I should ask: WHY make homeschool simple? Cause you got no time for complicated. And complexity ain’t fun. So how to simplify your homeschool because complexity ain’t fun? First of all, we can’t do all the things, so we’ll have to simplify our homeschools. So you have…
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