In all truth, I wouldn’t have 100% believed that years ago but the answer is a definite yes, a child can get their grades without years of schooling!Our 17 year old daughters were not homeschoolers but solid self directed learners for 8 years, from the age of about 8 through to 16. Nor was our son homeschooling. He was also self directed aged 5 through till, well he is still doing it. Prior to that they had a few years in school and a few years of me not really
‘That is it I have got it, the future if education is Minecraft’ I say to my husband then he looks at me across the kitchen coffee in hand, ‘erm, am not sure you are right there’ he says. I am not sure I am right either but I think I am on to something. I then go on to tell him that a university in the UK aims to teach children biochemistry using Minecraft and he thinks about that. The reason for my revelation is this. Well there are many
An unschooling chat around the confusing topic of ‘screen time’ and how we do it and what we are learning along the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYVnmxSUAHU Image by Liliana Drew Pexels
I was really intrigued by the fact that I was called a ‘junkie’ yesterday, admittedly a technology junkie but a ‘junkie’ all the same. In fact the whole family were called ‘Technology Junkies,’ on Twitter, followed by a smile and a wink. I did a bit of self-management, as I nearly did a Twitter knee jerk. But my better self, spoke to my not so great self and had a word. The word was, well words were…’This is not about you.’ I was interested as It came from a well
I love the way you have been so thoughtful and that the music that twinkles in the background when you are present is actually very soothing to my adult ear. The way you guide my child through the land of the unknown, how you let him be the king of his world. That he can say no to the walkers with white eyes and not let the creepers creep and that in peaceful mode I know that no one will get him. I love the way that your square sun rises as