Rickshaw Unschooling

School Tali went to school with his Opa on Thursday, which was apparently wonderful. He very much enjoyed himself, and got to share one of h...

This week I am finally beginning to feel like I know where I am and what lies ahead. I still feel a bit frantic, particularly trying to find...

Burdock Tea Update Today we tried the roasted burdock, both steeped as tea (left in photo) and ground and drip-filtered like coffee (right)....

I am just sitting here reveling in my new and wonderful life. I haven't decided yet how emotional this blog is going to be, and for that...

Great Grandma's Box of Memories We started the day with personal histories... that's a fancy way of saying we went through some old...

Today we had two children from Taliesin's class here to play (brother and sister), and they got along famously, as my mother-in-law woul...

From a friend: "What makes you think that you can teach your children better than someone who's spent seven years training to be a ...

Rhiannon, who neither of us worried about at all, is showing some signs of stress with her new busy schedule and "big girl" activi...

The adventures of confidence-building continue... Taliesin had his second day of circus school, today, and managed to do most activities on ...

What on Earth is Tuesday All About? The "official" name for what we're doing on Tuesdays is Earth Walk day... We drop Rhianno...

Stink Currants: Stink currants are one of the indigenous berries, here, apparently eaten still by many native peoples in various manners (d...

By all other accounts we'd expected to be leaving early from this party: "tiny house, lots of people", "mini-rave", ...

Thursday all day and Friday afternoon I (and sometimes Rhiannon) attended school with Taliesin. He did various academic exercises (including...

...was wonderful!!! Tali was enraptured by the aerial silks, and is greatly looking forward to using them more, next time!!

Just to clarify: We keep a schedule mostly because we have so many activities that we'd never make it to any of them if we didn't. E...

Today we tried out everything Mama had planned for Tuesdays, except ballet, which begins next week... and perhaps Mama was a little overzea...

A couple of parents today at the Learning Centre were discussing their dislike of the word school. One actually said it's a big reason s...

Well the beginning is over, now. It was a long haul through the first two days of Learning Centre classes (plus more meetings and training/b...

In which... a bunch of parents get together and I discover how truly diverse the Learning Centre population really is. And I discover that I...

Well today was to be our first ever day with the Learning Centre: a field trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery! We boarded bus with the rest of...

...of course, technically, according to our educational philosophy, day one was the day we burned a candle together and pleaded with the uni...

Unschooling, also known as free schooling, child-directed learning, and natural learning, is our educational philosophy and goal for our fam...