My girls were busy painting yesterday. Rachel, 19, did the one with the yellow background. Susie, 16, did the one with the green background. This is Susie’s first oil painting. I’m in awe of their giftings, but it’s not just raw talent. The girls have devoted thousands of hours to growing in their artistic skills. … Continue reading Who They Were Meant To Be
Think about this… what is the END goal for having kids strong in Math and Language Arts? These skills are not an end in themselves, but tools to be successful in other things. With Fun-Schooling you often start with the end goal, you don’t just teach Language Arts and Math, you USE it doing meaningful … Continue reading Start With the End Goal
Taken from a 2018 Facebook post…almost exactly 4 years ago…still so much here to encourage parents! I have found that with Fun-Schooling, or Delight Directed Learning, and intentional unschooling, many children rise to a much higher level of focused learning and accomplishment… sooner than kids in school, and seem to be ready to start their … Continue reading Become a Facilitator!
From Anna’s Instagram: When I was seven my mom said I could major in the arts. Why wait for college? My mom believes in the 10,000 hour rule. If you want to become “World Class” truly legendary and super skilled at anything you need to immerse in your passion for 10,000 hours. All the Brown … Continue reading From Anna: “Start Your 10,000-hour Journey”
(In this post, we’ll go back in time to a Facebook post from 2015 and look at the model we followed (and still do) for homeschooling our teens. Sometimes it helps to see what it “looks like”!) People often ask me what I do with my teens for school. Here is a question that must … Continue reading Teen Boys: What’s a Homeschool Mom to Do?
I thought I just chime in and share why I love fun-schooling so much. When my kids were little, I was trying to do a lot of Charlotte Mason learning, some Montessori schooling at home, classical learning and a lot of Unschooling. It was exhausting! Our whole life style revolved around me being a worn … Continue reading Why We Love Fun-Schooling
Real life has no instructions. All children grow into adults who encounter situations and opportunities where no one explains what to do. We want our children to think and be innovative. Almost all normal schoolwork is based on following instructions and memorizing information. At our house we don’t do that. When I created all of … Continue reading Raising Employees?
God has given each of my children an amazing set of gifts, skills, talents and experiences that shape who they are. I love watching each of them become who they were created to be. Each one has a calling, and for each one it is a unique dream for the future. Each path begins the … Continue reading Let Them Dream
I have noticed that between age 11 and 14 every child begins to develop a deep interest in one or two specific areas. If we don’t discourage them they can become experts. If they don’t embrace that passion for a specific career at that point they often drift into a season of fog where they … Continue reading Sarah’s Mom Tips – Choosing a Major & Why 13 Is the Magic Number
Recently a mom asked this question: How should I handle a child who doesn’t put forth much effort on the Fun-Schooling pages? The truth is, he was just hacking his homeschooling and doing the minimum, which is what kids do when they want to move on to doing something they feel is more important. The … Continue reading Sarah’s Mom Tips: Strategies for Different Learning Styles
