Ep 104: Day in the Life: Unschool 🌿 HOW & WHY We Unschool Our 4 Kids // 12 Years of Homeschooling

[@kayeanne9134]

i responded to someone else's comment but I want to put it here too, unschooling gets a bad reputation but it is SO FAR from lazy or negligent. It takes more effort a lot of the time to be observant and present and pay attention to what your child is interested in and learning and you are the facilitator of all of that and helping them and learning alongside them. it can often be easier to just plop a workbook or video lecture in front of them and say " here do this" check it and go on with your day. unschooling takes a ton of parental involvement, in a good way :)

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

You summed it up perfectly! Very well said!! 🥰

[@bakerbrewz]

Wow well said and written! ❤

[@crystal476]

♥️

[@01sgolke]

Thank you, I really needed this 🙌🙏🙌💝

[@augustdawsoniii7640]

Its quite providential of the Lord to show your channel again, as you were one of the very first videos i saw years ago when I began my homeschool journey, and now that we have taken serious stance about raising and training our children up in godliness, homesteading in the middle of the mountain doung iff grid farm living, this was truly refreshing and affirming. Sent a prayer for you and your family. Thank you for sharing what you and your family have and are going through. God bless and keep you guys in Jesus Christ 🙏❤️

[@matildagsh]

I only found your channel and I really love seeing how you are training your kids in the way of the Lord. May The Lord continue to bless you and keep you all .

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Thank you so much! ALL glory to God! 🙌🏼

[@ashleyhenderson7055]

I have learned the hard way that if I back off and allow my children to explore what they want to learn then they learn more. Curriculums do not work for us. To each his own. Lol

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Amen, totally agree!

[@bakerbrewz]

It is so interesting to see how kids learn, how they learn best, what they like to learn, and just their overall general curiosity. I think so many of us feel like we have to follow a curriculum or a workbook because that's all we know and think is out there as an option. It's a shock sometimes to consider that backing off and letting kids explore on their own will actually yield even better "results" (more like growth, curiosity, learning, excitement to understand, etc). It's connecting to hear that more people feel this way about curriculums.

[@tamracollins5483]

Would you show us a day in y'all's life of unschooling?? Like a vlog, day in the life kind of thing??
Unfortunately, I am a person who needs examples to fully understand something. However, once I understand something fully, then I can go outside of the box.

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Absolutely! If you go to the main page and scroll down to the ‘homeschool’ section… there’s oodles of “life in action” videos! 😃 We’ll absolutely be adding more, with a video coming out each day I definitely have room for more homeschool fun! 🥰

[@tamracollins5483]

@@HeavenlyMindedHome thank you for replying and I will definitely be checking those out!! Air hugs!! 🙂

[@rlewis9562]

I would love to move to an unschooling philosophy, but I worry deeply that if my child wants to get into university, or get a job that requires certain exams have been taken, she won't be equipped. The unschooled answer seems to be to send them off to local college at 16 to catch up on everything, which doesn't seem to be a very satisfactory answer!
My daughter (aged 12) is naturally good at maths, but burnt out by it and I've given up finding the idea curriculum (because, of course, there's no such thing!) and I want to just let go, but that fear that I'll do her a disservice in her future life haunts me. Can you share what your thoughts are on this please? Thank you so much!

[@kristimckeon6967]

Well it is hard to accept when society has subscribed to a certain idea for so long but the truth is that children don't need to take tests from the age of 7 to 16 to be competent at taking an exam. Unschoolers do study the same way we study when we want to learn something and they will excel at what they want to know because they WANT to know it. Ask yourself what you really have retained from the age of being 7, 8, 9 in school apart from math and language arts skills that you couldn't have learned in a month as a 16 year old. The actual truth is that until a child is of at least middle school age, public school is publicly funded day care. Even if you homeschool instead of unschool, kids can learn in 1 hour a day what they learn in 6 or so hours a day in the government institution.

[@jennifermcleod8176]

So encouraging! ❤

[@bakerbrewz]

I loved your intro music and right off the hop I am in a similar boat with choosing unschool style but fit with pieces of other systems/styles. So fitting one generic style is a hard definition for me to accept. I appreciate you talking about this so so much! 🐛 my boys would totally squish the centipedes for Mommy too 😂

[@user-vx1in1xv4i]

I've been intrigued by this method of homeschooling. However, I worry about how my child will learn the core things. She already struggles in math, dislikes reading, and writing just as much. What can you tell me to make me feel better and / or more confident that learning in these areas will take place if we aren't doing book work? I'm open to any information you can give me. Thank you.

[@yaadstylehomeschooling]

Where have you been? I've finally found the one! 😀

[@KarenNeri-mp4gb]

I love your shirt

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Thank you! It’s actually a dress, yay for thrift stores!

[@gritandgracefarm]

How can one unschool where the state requires standardized testing

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Easily! Our state requires that, but just because we have that to satisfy the state doesn’t mean we can’t get there through our mode of educational philosophy. I highly recommend checking out “unschool in ((your state))” for resources in fulfilling your legal obligation. We’ll be sharing more on this topic here shortly over at @gotohmh 😁

[@unconditionallovehomeschoo1830]

Very helpful

[@mykeyeshapedroza6098]

If the child hasn’t starred school can we do Unschooling and do we have to report it to the school district

[@IDontHaveOne18]

Homeschool laws vary from state to state (if in the USA, or country to country if not USA). You’ll have to look up your specific homeschool laws.

[@TocadoSaber]

Oi, sou uma mãe admiradora desta arte de ser mulher educadora Unschooling e sou uma destas aqui no Brasil. Possuo dois filhos maravilhosos que tirei da escola aderindo a esta forma de preparação para a vida adulta da vida real, no mundo real, como autodidatas independentes e livres do sistema doutrinário marxista e Stalinista atuante no Brasil.

[@dtinsley2004]

How do you follow the law's and stuff

[@kayeanne9134]

form what i know, you just get a little creative with combining all your life learning into the usual " subjects" and categories. you could even make a running list of things that go on, things your kids do and learn, " field trips" . drawing could incorporate geometry, listening to an audiobook or watching certain things on youtube can be language arts, hiking can be nature study, and even geography...those types of things for a shortened version of it. i have found some good resources on Pinterest on documenting those things. and it isnt making things up or lying at all, its just taking what yall do and learn and putting it into those boxes for filing purposes. it takes being observent and present with your children and being involved to know what they are interested in and learning. unschooling gets a bad wrap but it is FAR from lazy parenting and FAR from hands off neglectful education. it takes more work a lot of the time in my opinion, but a different kind of work and a good kind of work :) it is so often just misunderstood

[@HeavenlyMindedHome]

Kaye said it perfectly- it's all about understanding what your state wants and packaging your "out of the box" style to their "must be in a box" way of thinking. It's really not hard at all, usually just takes some thought. Luckily, our state is pretty simple so I don't have to deal with much interference.

[@MaineGalVal]

Indoctrination of your mythology IS a box and an agenda. I'm otherwise in agreement that a mostly child-led approach is the typical pre-requisite for unschooling.

[@kristimckeon6967]

I'm not sure I agree with this. Living within a lifestyle does not automatically imply indoctrination. I was not indoctrinated into the public school mythology even though I was forced to live within it. Most unschoolers have an open door policy, where if a child requests to go to a government institution, they are allowed to. Most just don't want to...obviously. At least not until they have a specific career that requires certain degrees that can only be obtained in certain institutions. It is also not an agenda in and of itself. Since it is an all doors open policy and you are supporting them and making whatever resources within your power available to them to pursue their goals, there's no way to plan very far ahead. Unschooling requires a letting go of agenda and letting go of the wheel and trusting that your child is capable of becoming something great without following the status quo.
At least that's how I see it.