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Is Unschooling Legal?

If homeschooling is legal, which it is in all 50 states and many countries, then unschooling is legal.

Unschooling is simply a METHOD of homeschooling; it is not a separate thing from homeschooling. You can follow the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling or use the Unit Studies method or you can unschool or . . . → Read More: Is Unschooling Legal?

Summer Vacation, the Unschooling Way

For most children, summer means no school, vacation time! For our family, summer usually meant staying indoors more, due to the Alabama heat, and for some reason this often led to an increase in more formal learning than our usual unschooling days. For example, we would spend more time together reading subjects of interest. . . . → Read More: Summer Vacation, the Unschooling Way

Unschooling, Part II

My regular readers no doubt have been wondering about my blogging absence. My apologies for leaving you hanging on the Audacity of Hope review. I do hope to finish that up soon. Life intruded, as it often does. In late April our daughter and two-year-old granddaughter came to live with us. And just as . . . → Read More: Unschooling, Part II