Rickshaw Unschooling

Taliesin in his early years, trying to get some lift. Photo: Emily van Lidth de Jeude I thought about calling this article 'Getting into...

Has your kid ever looked at you in earnest, and accused you of causing them problems by unschooling them? Mine has. And it was in that momen...

Here we are, today, working on the thirty-page document for our current distributed learning program in which this fifteen-year-old unsc...

Every great story has a crisis in the middle. Well, maybe many crises, actually: a rising crescendo of trips and falls and failures and flat...

Photo by my son, as published on his photography blog . Recently I attended a wonderful training session with Arthur Brock and Eric &quo...

So this afternoon my son came to me and said "Right now it's prynhawn. I think." Pardon me? He explained that that was Wel...

It is with great relief and joy that I finally formally announce that, after two years of independent school experience, we're going b...

You might have noticed a distinct lack of reporting on this "Unschooling to School" adventure we're on. Both of the kids are s...

Tali relaxes by building things like this ion thruster. Please can we be done, now?! I feel like I'm counting down the days, altho...

My son attends school now, but when people ask if we're still unschooling, I say yes. I was struggling with this question for a few m...

Well, here were are, four months into being a schooling family, and I am still working out the concept of packed lunches. Of course I did ma...

Do you remember your childhood report cards? I do. The manila envelope with the special school-paper-smell, and inside a folded piece of yel...

This morning in my t-shirt I stood and shivered in the pink sunrise, the blue light of dawn still behind me, to the west. The porch was dry...