Rickshaw Unschooling

Oh these past few weeks have been difficult, and I promised myself I wouldn't make this blog all about how great it is to be homelearner...

You can click these photos to enlarge them! My kids are like every other kid: infinitely amazing, if you just look at them with loving-pa...

...that phrase was how 2-year old Taliesin used to ask us what we were (or would be) doing. This is basically just this year's laundry...

...or so I obviously should have named it. Looking at the tracker, today, I see that by far the most common reason for coming to this blog i...

Someone at Life Learning Magazine put us on a list of favourite unschooling blogs. Thank you!!

On our first year we went for a not-back-to-school beach party with other homelearners. This year no such party was organized... and we'...

Two-time speaker at Ted Talks. See what he has to say:

takes joy out of giving gift out of life life out of joy gives in to loss .losing loses dancing from moving movement from song son...

OK -- two years after supposedly ending this blog, I am still having people comment on it quite frequently (5 times this week!) and still ge...

I'm debating what to do with this blog. Since deciding to pull out of the Learning Centre, we've really fallen into a lovely peacefu...

We're pulling out of the part-time program Tali's been attending. We're now officially full-time homelearners. YIPPEE!!!! I feel...

BBC documents the plastic garbage gathered in 1/2 an hour on one beach on Midway in the central Pacific ocean: See video here.

Further to my original post about TV ( read it here ), I want to link to this interesting article (and comment section) by Ali Hossaini: Don...

We arranged to have both the preschool class and Tali's homeschool program come to our house for May Day, this year. Both events (yes; i...

I don't actually think there are conspiracies, particularly. Well... of course there are; it's inevitable, but not on the grand-scal...

I suspect the unschooling blog is not exactly the right place to put this; these videos are quite beyond the children at this point. But it&...

"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'...