Our friends have started a blog for their adventure aboard their boat, and I thought, well, we're not going anywhere, but we are certainly beginning an adventure!
Today was Daniel's last day of school, and tomorrow is Ryan's last day.
So technically, by Friday, we will be starting an adventure called "unschooling". It is probably the best and most exciting thing I have ever done in my whole life (aside from getting married and having babies).
That may sound extreme, but it is the truth. I have never felt more sure of any decision.
Unschooling is a practice of "natural learning" or "self directed learning" in which the children drive the learning and therefore absorb the knowledge more fully and own it more completely. It allows for exploration on any level and it assumes the interconnectedness of all disciplines (as opposed to the segmented form of learning math, science, language, history in separate classes or lessons as in traditional school).
It is, in it's most pure form, learning from life.
We will have many opportunities to explore options for "education" and I'll use this blog as a way to share what we've learned.
Eventually this blog will be incorporated into our new web site: www.scnlc.org
We will be setting up (ironically) a private school, called the "Suncoast Natural Learning Center", which will give us the freedom to pursue educational methods that work for us rather then being held to the artificial (in our opinion) standards prescribed to homeschoolers by the public school system.
Hang on, it's going to be a wild ride!
