You’re wonderful. I’m watching you with my six month old in mind 😂 I’m excited to try these tips ❤

I have downloaded 3 books on unschooling: The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart Free to Learn by Peter Gray Unschooling to University by Judy Arnall The great thing about electronic books is searchability to see what is there and what is not. Of course I searched for science fiction. Only Free to Learn made any mention of it. One of the students admitted that he was obsessed with it as a kid. He became a mathematics professor at a major university according to the book. What I searched for and did not find in any of the books were Project Gutenberg and Librivox. These are free sources of material that all kinds of home schoolers should be aware of. Librivox creates audiobooks from public domain material while Project Gutenberg provides them as text in various formats. Since the oldest of these unschooling books is from 2013 and I have used Project Gutenberg since 2008 or 9 this almost amounts to criminal negligence. LOL There are 5 versions of Black Beauty in Librivox. The quality of the readings in their library varies. Most that I have tried are acceptable to good though a couple were too bad for me to tolerate. Your kids might like the dramatized version of Black Beauty which uses multiple readers for different characters. There is usually only one reader per audiobook.

@LearningLifeMB

2 жыл бұрын

I have been looking around on Librivox. My problem is that I am fussy about audiobooks and struggle with most of them. My girls will laugh at me as I shudder and shout "Turn it off". But I love to read out loud to them and bring books alive. The books on unschooling you downloaded are all good books.

Excellent video!

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤️

We believe in the unschooling of homeschooling. My granddaughters have learned so much. They have good common sense. There is so much learning in home school.

Yep. These are the kinds of things we do! So I know I’m on the right track!

Love this thank you so much my dream would be to to Unschool my 9 year old daughter one day!

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

Thank you....and you can do it! I hope you get to realize your dream.

I totally agree

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

thank you

How do you recommend logging it for states that require specific subjects ,hours and logs kept daily

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

If I were logging it I would log the time spent on the activity. If I were cooking, and it took an hour I would say "math - one hour". But for States that require specific logging, unschooling can be hard. Still totally doable. But you are logging more the activity and the subject it would be.

I really appreciate what you are sharing. I've been homeschooling for 14 years now, and our youngest just isn't doing well with worksheets and traditional style homeschooling. I'm trying to make adjustments, but it's a bit overwhelming. He's 12 years old, and I feel like I'm failing him as a homeschool parent. I'd love some advice!

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

Worksheets can be hard or uninspiring for some kids. They just don't want to do them. This is a great opportunity to start looking at his interests and how you can "learn" from that. For example: He likes to fix things. Have him research how to fix a household appliance. Talk about knowing what is a good resource, etc (as there are terrible ones out there). Get him to talk through the steps with you or create his own plan on how to fix the item. Let him try and do it. Then evaluate how he felt it went. Did he need to make changes? What would he improve? Break away from the traditional for him. Focus on the skills he needs (at the age of 12 I would say critical thinking, research, communicating ideas verbally and in written form are key ones) and let interests guide you. You can come back to worksheets later, or insert them here and there. Does that help? I know that it can be hard making changes. But you've got this. Talk to your son about what he wants to get out of his education (remember this can change as he gets older). Make the changes together.

@BengeFamily98

Жыл бұрын

@@LearningLifeMB Thank you so much for the advice! I think that having him research and work on a household appliance is a great idea! He loves to fix things, and put things together. He's quite good at it! Thank you again!🙂

@nicklaskristoferhansen382

20 күн бұрын

Great advice. Teach kids that if something is challenging or boring you don't have to do it. And of course a kid knows what he doesn't know and needs to know... The decline of your nation is starting to make sense now.

@BengeFamily98

20 күн бұрын

@@nicklaskristoferhansen382 seems to me you have nothing better to do, but to leave nasty comments for absolutely no reason. Get a life.

@BengeFamily98

20 күн бұрын

@@nicklaskristoferhansen382 seems to me you like to leave nasty comments for absolutely no reason. Get a life.

Amy tips for unschooling for the struggling kid with multiplication and reading

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

When it comes to multiplication if you can make it fun and hands on this can work well. Also learning the times tables to song can be beneficial. I am not one who promotes learning things by rote without understanding but I think that knowing the times tables while exploring multiplication can be a helpful connection point. For reading, it is a matter of finding out what they like to read. Some people are dead against anything but books - but graphic novels, comics, non-fiction on a topic they love, magazines, even websites with info on topics they love can be a big boost to their reading. Break it down into smaller amounts of time too. When they show fatigue then stop. Pushing through that, or trying to, only sets up more frustration.

We do so much baking from scratch using fractions and measuring. We also go over how much things cost while shopping. Adding and subtracting as we go🥰. We multiply when we need more then one product and divide when using portions of by the pound products. He's just turned 8 and he is so smart with math and engineering. ❤

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome. Thanks for letting me know. We love fractions from baking. So accessible for the children. You do what we do. And it is fun to watch math come alive for our children.

Are you from Australia? It seems that unschooling is getting very popular in Australia... am I right?

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

I am from Australia but I live in the US. I have heard of it becoming more popular in Australia but not really sure of how much. Schools in Australia are definitely different to the US.

@kr6484

Жыл бұрын

@@LearningLifeMB what are they like? I'm really interested in how other countries do "school"

Can you help with this 🙏 I am awful at math and I'm not sure I as a mother I could teach her what she needs to know.

@leafinthewind5199

Жыл бұрын

I have a couple years before my daughter would need to start school but I don't want to stick her into a system designed to make cookie cutter thinkers.

@LearningLifeMB

Жыл бұрын

It will be good for you to know that you don't have to have all the answers now, or even when your child is at a certain age. There are so many great apps or websites (like Khan Academy) that help parents know the content they need. I unschool but use an online math curriculum because my girls like it. But we do a lot of life and functional math day to day. Start looking for homeschool groups in your area that you could get ideas and info from. They can certainly help you. Some co-ops even do a preschool option and that can helpful before you start your daughter in school.