Rickshaw Unschooling

"Our Decrepit Food Factories" article by Michael Pollan

First a couple of photos of our earthwalk (Tali's and my weekly trek out to pick up Rhiannon from preschool). We noted that the skunk ca...

Remember the consumerism movie I posted earlier ( The Story of Stuff )? Here's a little video-series to go along with it, thanks to Thom...

Tal is dancing again... with all his heart!

Today I went to Tal's learning group and sang some songs with them for their current Canada study. We sang two songs about our island, s...

After 3 weeks of pneumonia (I'm almost better, now, thank you!), various graphic design projects and other adventures occurring (yes, we...

Wonderful news! The British Telegraph reports: Teachers mull ending homework for pupils. I don't agree with assigned homework, personal...

In February 2008 the Canadian conservative party began a junkmail campaign of mail-in "ballots". We've been receiving a few su...

CBC reports: Student faces expulsion for running chemistry study-group on Facebook. Excerpt from the article: He said the group was a place ...

Apparently I also printed this way, and Markus' old Brio trainset is proof that at least one of he or his sister printed backwards, as r...

I've been eating sheep sorrel ("sour grass") with my family since I was a child, and it's one of the first edible salad gr...

Taliesin turned 6, today! He is now swamped with lego Technic. Quite by accident, and while none of us knew ahead of time he'd be so int...

Beautiful days we've been having. A dear friend (and fellow unschooler, and mother of 2 of my kids' friends!) is getting very close ...

I've been neglecting to take my camera with me quite a lot, lately, but I do have a few photos from the past sunny days to share. We'...

I thought it would be a good idea to gather together a list of books we love. So here it is (at least the beginning of it; I hope I remember...

When I was a child, we had no TV , until I was a teenager. So of course, as older kids we watched TV at our friends' houses. When I was ...

We just invented these to share with Taliesin's class, which includes a few other kids with allergies/food restrictions. We're quite...

Hang this poster up in your community. Print it at: http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/factsheets/notvposter.pdf Enola Aird, at Motherin...

Markus just documented his hike with the kids, today, and I'm glad at least one of us is posting something. You can read his lovely entr...

I am sometimes (thankfully less often as time goes by) asked how I expect my kids to learn anything when I'm not teaching them. Or how I...

As most people know, Tal is allergic to wheat and wheat-related grains (basically, he can eat rice, sorghum, corn, quinoa, and other starche...

Taliesin eats his carrots heartily, because, despite our efforts to explain to him that our families are all genetically predisposed to need...

New link added in the Learning Links section (lower left): The Story of Stuff Just watched it with the kids. The "what you can do"...

Here, we are busy preparing for Sinterklaas ' birthday party. Normally the festivities would happen tonight, but we've asked him to ...