Thursday, August 31, 2006

Kansas City Star article on Unschooling

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/15398950.htm?source=rss&channel=kansascity_living

A new article on unschooling.

What's coolest about it is the expert they quoted was basically supportive!

Someone said "I turned the TV off because I was tired of fighting with the cartoon network"
or something and I think the same person was quoted as saying "I 'strew their paths'".

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Unschooling as a Radical Alternative

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/27/gutierrez.unschooing/index.html (yes, there's a typo)
Not new, but new to some people.

That was found when Kelly Lovejoy discovered an article by her here:
Three Stages of Unschooling. The main page of that site is
IALA
The International Association for Learning Alternatives


More on Kelly Lovejoy

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Carnival of Unschooling

Unschooling Voices #2 is up at Joanne's place. This issue's topic is "Do you extend the principles of unschooling (trust, freedom, etc) into any other areas of your child's life"?

The topic for September is from Laurie: "I would love to hear other unschoolers thoughts regarding allowance or payment for odd jobs or whatever you want to call it. I see a major benefit from the kids managing their own money but I’m not sure that I want to pay an “allowance” to the kids every week. But if I pay per job, do I pay to have them clean their room or do I only pay for odd jobs? Anyway, I’d love to hear the other thoughts/ideas/methods other unschoolers incorporate".

Go to Unschooling Voices to find out how to submit a post.