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  • As parents and as human beings, we need a community for support. Creating an unschool community in your life can benefit you in so many ways.
    Play and Learn

    The Importance Of Community – Unschool Life

    As parents and as human beings, we need a community for support. Creating an unschool community in your life can benefit you in so many ways.

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    Homeschool Sports – 5 Ideas for Physical Education Classes when Homeschooling

    May 10, 2018

    Children’s Books Recommendation – Large Family Library Haul

    May 20, 2018
    One of the hardest things, when joining the unschooling world, is learning to trust your children. How will they learn the fundamentals? Trust them.

    Trust Your Children to Learn – Unschooling Life

    April 3, 2019
  • My family love to read. We are always looking for new books. Recently, I got the chance to review The Heart Changer from Jarm Del Boccio, Author.
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    The Heart Changer – Book Review

    My family love to read. We are always looking for new books. Recently, I got the chance to review The Heart Changer from Jarm Del Boccio, Author.

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    Child-Led Learning: How to Nurture Curiosity Without a Curriculum

    March 23, 2025

    Homeschool In Pajamas

    June 27, 2018

    STEM Activities – Tied 2 Teaching Review

    March 20, 2019
  • Two children stare out at the beautiful turquoise water of Grassi Lakes in Canmore Alberta. The warm weather is here, public schools are out. Are you homeschooling in the summer? For us, learning never stops, the opportunities just change.
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    Homeschooling in the Summer

    The warm weather is here, public schools are out. Are you homeschooling in the summer? For us, learning never stops, the opportunities just change.

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    Are you wanting to increase your children's typing skills and speed (or your own)? Check out this review for Typing Tournament Online from EdAlive!

    Typing Tournament Online – Review

    May 23, 2019

    Top 3 Child-Friendly Hikes Near Revelstoke, British Columbia

    July 5, 2018
    Is your child struggling to learn to read? Dyslexia Gold is a program designed to help them improve their reading and spelling skills.

    Struggling to Learn to Read? Check out this Dyslexia Gold Review

    July 3, 2019
  • 4 boys of different heights stand beside a size chart and a very large fossil of the leg and foot bones from a dinosaur. School's Out! It is summer and we are excited for warmer weather and new adventures. We just had our unschooling year-end meeting and are officially done!
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    School’s Out! Unschooling Year End Report

    School's Out! It is summer and we are excited for warmer weather and new adventures. We just had our unschooling year-end meeting and are officially done!

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    Cooperative Board Games for Children

    September 22, 2020
    We're always looking for personalized learning opportunities to add to our homeschool plan. This IXL Learning Review will explain how we use IXL in our home.

    IXL Learning Review – A Fun Way To Learn

    February 20, 2019
    How do unschoolers approach to learning about castles? From Tudor Castles to building our own in Minecraft, here is how we organized our castle unit study.

    Castle Unit Study

    August 30, 2019
  • Why We Unschool, A hand in silhouette holds a jar up to the sky and is capturing a galaxy of stars within the jar.
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    Why We Unschool

    Why would anyone want to unschool? The reason why we unschool is we want to embrace the curiosity and enjoyment of learning that children naturally have.

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    Do your children love tinkering with electronics? Check out snap circuits! A fun and safe way to introduce your electronics in your homeschool.

    Snap Circuits – A Fun Way To Introduce Electronics

    November 14, 2018

    Raising Resilient Kids: How Homeschooling Families Can Inspire Healthy Choices

    June 6, 2025
    I love art. As an experienced art teacher, I love inspiring children to get messy and create art. This homeschool art supply list will get you started on your artistic journey.

    Homeschool Art Supplies: K-6

    August 28, 2019
  • white teddy bear reading a book on a blue background. how we discovered unschooling.
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    Our Discovery of Unschooling

    There are so many approached to homeschooling. When we discovered unschooling, we were hooked. Here is our story about how we discovered unschooling.

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    Do your kids love puzzles and video games? If so, you should check out this review for Matific Galaxy - an award winning math game for grades K-6!

    Matific Galaxy Review

    June 26, 2019
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    Unexpected Educational Opportunities: Stealth Learning

    January 12, 2022
    Learning to cook is such an important life skill. Having your children in the kitchen with you is a great way to introduce them to cooking.

    Learning To Cook – Children In The Kitchen

    February 18, 2019
  • One of the hardest things, when joining the unschooling world, is learning to trust your children. How will they learn the fundamentals? Trust them.
    Play and Learn

    Trust Your Children to Learn – Unschooling Life

    One of the hardest things, when joining the unschooling world, is learning to trust your children. How will they learn the fundamentals? Trust them.

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    Learning to cook is such an important life skill. Having your children in the kitchen with you is a great way to introduce them to cooking.

    Learning To Cook – Children In The Kitchen

    February 18, 2019
    Do your kids love puzzles and video games? If so, you should check out this review for Matific Galaxy - an award winning math game for grades K-6!

    Matific Galaxy Review

    June 26, 2019

    Roadschooling in Canada: BC To Ontario with Unschoolers

    July 31, 2022
  • What kind of resources work for unschooling? Check out this SchoolhouseTeachers.com review and see if it might be a perfect fit for your family.
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    SchoolhouseTeachers.com Review from an Unschooling Mom

    What kind of resources work for unschooling? Check out this SchoolhouseTeachers.com review and see if it might be a perfect fit for your family. I am always looking for resources and tools to add to the learning environment in our home.  While curricula are not our preferred methods of learning, I love having different resources in our home (both physical and digital).  Recently I had the pleasure of exploring a great website called SchoolhouseTeachers.com (http://www.SchoolhouseTeachers.com/). This SchoolhouseTeachers.com review is for the Ultimate Annual Yearly Membership.  SchoolhouseTeachers.com is a division of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and a wonderful resource for online learning.  There are over 400 classes currently available with more being…

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    Does your child love to read but struggles to comprehend what they have read? Check out these 7 tips to improve reading comprehension from an unschool mom.

    7 Tips to Improve Reading Comprehension

    May 25, 2019
    I love art. As an experienced art teacher, I love inspiring children to get messy and create art. This homeschool art supply list will get you started on your artistic journey.

    Homeschool Art Supplies: K-6

    August 28, 2019

    Online Learning Resources

    January 18, 2021
  • Unschooling happens without the use of curriculum, testing, schedules and grades. Am I a lazy Mom? Here is the truth about unschooling.
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    I am A Lazy Mom – The Truth About Unschooling

    Unschooling happens without the use of curriculum, testing, schedules and grades. Am I a lazy Mom? Here is the truth about unschooling. Because I put my life on the internet, people feel the need to comment on me as a person even though they have only watched one YouTube video or seen one Instagram post. It is amazing how many times I have been called a lazy parent on my unschooling videos. You would think that I sat on the couch staring at my phone or having a nap the entire video!  But instead, I am playing with my kids, cooking with my kids, reading stories and playing board games. …

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    Unschooling With Big Brother Watching

    March 2, 2021
    I was given the opportunity to review Stopmotion Explosion's Stop Motion Animation Kit. With budding filmmakers in my home, I knew this was going to be fun!

    Stopmotion Explosion Review

    April 15, 2019
    white teddy bear reading a book on a blue background. how we discovered unschooling.

    Our Discovery of Unschooling

    April 24, 2019
  • People often love to share their opinions about how you choose to live your life and parent your children. When you decide to homeschool, be prepared.
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    Be Confident In Your Choice To Homeschool

    People often love to share their opinions about how you choose to live your life and parent your children. When you decide to homeschool, be prepared.   Homeschooling is becoming more common, but it is still not the norm in society. Most of my generation, in my area, grew up in the public school system.  I know more people who went to private school than I do who were homeschooled as children.  Homeschooling just wasn’t that common of a form of education when I was in school. It is amazing how that has shifted over the years. More and more parents are researching homeschooling as a means to educate their…

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    Roadschooling in Canada: BC To Ontario with Unschoolers

    July 31, 2022

    Child-Led Learning: How to Nurture Curiosity Without a Curriculum

    March 23, 2025
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