Posts Tagged ‘ unschooling ’

Don’t Just Teach, Help Kids Learn

November 13, 2012
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Don’t Just Teach, Help Kids Learn

Mid-Week Links It’s all about unschooling and homeschooling this week. Malaysian homeschooler, 17-year-old Petrina Phua, writes about her homeschooling experience and what it was like to transition to taking the IGCSE exams. She went on to score straight As for all her eight subjects. “I remember that there were days when I would do...

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Attachment Parenting In The News

July 4, 2012
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Attachment Parenting In The News

And…we’re back! Apologies are in order, folks. It has been a long hiatus since our last post. So much has happened in that time but that is probably best left for another day. We were featured in the Star newspaper today (thanks for the interview, Grace!) so perhaps this is a fitting piece with...

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Don’t Miss The Forest For The Trees

August 4, 2010
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Don’t Miss The Forest For The Trees

When top student Erica Goldson delivered the valedictory address at the Coxsackie-Athens High School graduation ceremony on June 25, she touched many hearts with her words and her courage. The message she brings is a particularly pertinent one for all parents during these turbulent times when chaos makes great changes possible. It takes brave...

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Homeschooling Delivers The Goods

January 17, 2010
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Homeschooling Delivers The Goods

As homeschoolers, we find that we are often asked to justify our decision to raise our children outside the school system. We are constantly bombarded with queries about our homeschooling from all quarters: the sincerely concerned, the intellectually curious, the secretly disapproving, the intensely doubtful and the hopeful wannabes. Homeschooling is quickly moving into...

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