“Why Do You Do What You Do?” – October 2010 Blog Carnival
Hey everyone! I am very late on this months carnival. It has been a crazy time in our household lately. We moved 3000 miles from Pennsylvania to Oregon. It took a little while to find a permanent place to settle in and get internet service. It’s hard to maintain a website with no internet service! I am back and ready to keep up much better. I hope you enjoy the posts. And many of you will send us even more submissions to November’s Carnival 
Stephanie at Learning Through Living writes:
I don’t even know if I answered why…Why not? Unschooling is awesome, kids are awesome, they are only with us a short time and sending them away is not something I’m willing to do.
Lauren at Sparkling Adventures writes her personal definition of Christian Unschooling:
Christian unschooling is embracing the opportunity to keep your children at home so they can learn in a natural way through life experiences. It is trusting that God will direct their interests so they are well equipped for life and godliness. It is believing that God will enable you with wisdom to provide encouragement, time and resources. It is deliberately avoiding any attempts to measure or force your children’s learning according to others’ schedules and standards.
Mamapoekie at Authentic Parent writes:
- 7. I don’t want to outsource my child, nor her education.
- 14. My child should be free to pursue her interests.
- 29. I don’t want my child to develop herd mentality
- 32. I trust my child
A fine list of reasons to live instead of school.
Stephanie at Ordinary Life Magic writes:
Somewhere during lesson one or two or five things came to a screeching halt.
Because, you know…. there was me…. screeching.
Not pretty, is it?
…
Stop.
…
Deep breath.
Loves finds its way in, eventually.
A beautiful account of her journey.
Lisa at Perpetual Joy writes:
The great thing about unschooling *for me* is that it really supports my own personal desire to deconstruct all sorts of assumptions that I was raised with. Having deconstructed some of the big ones (Sexuality, Religion, Education, Medicine), I am left to deconstructing more of the “mundane” components of living, which range from how I react to various situation to challenging the ideology of “radical unschooling” itself.
Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed this months’ submissions as much as I did!
Well, we are just getting into a bit of unschooling…I’ve wanted to do it for quite some time now. We have entered our 5th year of ‘homeschooling’ and as our family has grown and the children have gotten older it just seems like it will be better to let them follow their own interests. They are the ones who will be living their lives once they are out on their own…..not me. I have many ideas that are still ‘schoolish’ , as does my husband, but I am learning to let go of much and I’m trying even harder to see the learning that happens in everything. They retain so much more of what they read/learn about at their own choosing….plus the very important fact that it takes much less effort on my part to get them to do something they are interested in….instead of trying to demand that they do ‘XYZ’ because they ‘have’ to. I’m looking forward to deschooling myself and really getting more into unschooling….I think my younger kids will benefit the most, since they will have the mom who lets them learn what they want to learn the entire time instead of having to deal with the ‘school teacher’ mom at all.