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Recent Musings on Parenting and Childhood in Light of Unschooling (Our Homeschooling Method)
Deep thoughts on braving (and embracing) the path less traveled
If ignorance is bliss, I may never experience it.
I was born a deep-thinker.
Thoughts about childhood — mine and my children’s — have frequented the foreground of my mind lately.
From the age of twenty-one, I have been a blessed and devoted mother. Between my first and fourth born sons is a sixteen-year age gap — and two sons in-between them.
Beauty and love have filled their childhoods as abundantly as chaos and pain have. It’s often that I ponder the yin and yang in life. Many opposing emotions arise when I recall memories from the past eighteen years.
Childhood.
Unhealed wounds from childhood experiences remain for many of us well into adulthood. I received most of mine during my years in public school.
That did not fuel my desire to homeschool my children, however.
I prefer they homeschool, of course, but have always granted them the decision of where they will learn.
For fifteen years they attended public schools. I’ve been unschooling them — a…
