LIFE Moments

2008-09-14T01:01:00.001-05:00

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2008-08-15T16:58:00.003-05:00

Well, there's not really much exciting going on right now, but I haven't posted to this blog in a while, so here it goes!

Let's see.....Jack is sitting in the play/exersaucer thingy eating some Cheerios and trying to tell me something. LOL! He drums on everything, so he is smashing quite a few of them and breaking a lot of them before they get to his mouth. :)

Jacob is sneaking around, trying to get my Dr. Pepper! He is also watching Jonathan and talking to him while....

Jonathan is packing to go to a friend's house and spend the night! He is so excited! I've got an activity for them to do tomorrow morning that I am going to send along with them. I'm sure the other boys will love it as well. Plaster of Paris is amazing. LOL!

Jayla is in Texas at the moment. She has been there since last Sunday night and I am going to take Jack on the train tomorrow to go get her! We'll be back Sunday night. She is stoked that she gets to ride a train! She's been totally spoiled by my little brother and his family this week. I'll blog about it with TONS of pictures and videos when we get back.

I guess that's about it for this moment in LIFE. :)

2008-06-09T09:33:00.002-05:00

Jacob can really surprise me sometimes. This morning I started to blow up at him when I discovered he had spilled (on purpose) half a can of powdered formula all over his train and track! I tried to explain that it was his baby brother's FOOD and that he CANNOT DO THAT!!!! He made a sad face and said, "I was pretending it was snow." Then Jonathan piped in "It looks more like quarry dust." I smiled to myself and just cleaned up the mess. (sigh)

2008-02-01T11:29:00.002-06:00

Jonathan just informed me that he knows how many pennies are in $10. He said 1,000. I thought about it for a couple of seconds and said, "Yep, you're right!" He asked me if I knew how he knew that, so of course I asked him to tell me how he figured it out. He said "I knew $9 was 900 pennies, so I just added another hundred for one more dollar!" Smart kid! He does math in his head ALL the time! He definitely gets that from me. I am constantly doing some sort of math or counting steps, etc. It actually drives me insane sometimes! Jayla and Jonathan both are counting right now. I thought they were going to 100, but they're in the 150's now, so I think they're attempting to go to 1,000. That will be a first for Jayla, but I know she can do it as long as she doesn't forget where she was. LOL! Jacob is flying his trains around the room. He loves those trains! I think he is playing with James and Percy right now. He has some generic ones too, but he loves the Thomas & Friends engines the best. Jonathan loved trains at this age too, but not like Jacob does! The kid is obsessed! LOL! He found Jayla's pink engine last night and gave it to her while excitedly telling her, "Oh, Rosie! I found Rosie for you, Sissy!" It was really sweet. :) Jack has been sitting here smiling and playing with his sister and brothers, but he is just now starting to get vocal. I guess I should rescue him before he gets too worked up! Jayla is passing 300 now! Woohoo!!!! :)

2008-01-21T10:42:00.000-06:00

Jayla is playing with Jack helping him "exercise" while he is on his tummy. :)

Jacob is sorting clothes. He brought a load of clean clothes in and dumped them in the middle of the floor, so now he is sorting them into piles.

Jonathan is counting his money for the umpteenth time. It is mostly pennies, and he has $9 worth! It came out to $9.16, so he gave Jayla 16 pennies. :)

2008-01-16T11:50:00.001-06:00

I woke up really late this morning. The house was totally quiet, so I was very curious what I was missing.....or if the kids were missing! I walked into the living room where they were all (except Jack, who was with me) watching cartoons. The TV was turned down low, and the room smelled of oranges! I've only been up a few minutes, so that is still what it is like in here! Jonathan had been playing computer games, but he was turned around watching TV when I joined them.

Daddy bought each of the kids 2 baskets to fill with fruits and veggies. He did that yesterday and told them that the fruit in the baskets, each had their own color, was their own fruit to eat however quickly or slowly they wish. One had apples and bananas in it and was sitting on the table, the other for each of them had baby carrots and oranges in it. So I walked in here this morning to all of them munching on their goodies. They all have *both* of their baskets in here chowing down! LOL! I think they have been eating healthier than me lately! I'm SO thankful that they love to eat healthy. They even scold me if I have something like a Dr. Pepper that they know is bad. :) So far I am pleased with their choices. They seem to be very health-conscious for being so young, so even though I don't always practice what I preach myself, they are understanding how important it is! Thank you, Father God!

I'm also thankful they are learning to be respectful with things like keeping the TV down low. :) So far I have had a great start to my day! I hope it continues! Woohoo!!!!!

2008-01-14T22:44:00.000-06:00

Jayla got her glasses, so I just wanted to post a picture. Jacob ended up needing some too, but he won't have to wear his as much. Jayla has Amblyopia (Lazy Eye), so we'll be doing some patching next month. We think Jack may have that too, so he will be tested when Jayla goes back. Jayla's picture is a little dark because I had to turn the flash off. I could fix it but that would take more time. LOL! Jacob's picture has a glare on his glasses and his face is all red and shiny because he has a cold (gross!), so I'll have to get new pictures of both of them in a few days. (sigh)

I hate that they (especially Jayla) have to wear glasses, but at least they can see now! I had no idea how blind Jayla is in her left eye!!! Hopefully that will improve greatly over the next couple of years.

2008-01-11T15:52:00.001-06:00

A sad, but necessary, Life moment. Jayla was standing next to me at the computer. She wanted to play some games on one particular web site. It started with a 'P', and she brought up the wrong one. I helped her sound it out (from that web site) and brought up the favorites menu again. There were 4 sites bookmarked that started with a 'P', so I helped her sound out each one. I actually read them to her while pointing to the letters. When I got to the one she was wanting, I asked her to read it to me. She got a little whiney and said "But I can't see it!" Wow. I had no idea her eyesight was that bad! I just want to cry! :'( Even I need glasses, but I could read those letters just fine!

The good part about all this is that now that we know she definitely needs to wear glasses, I will get her in next week and she will have a whole new world opened up to her. The colors will be more clear, trees more beautiful, faces more distinct. Her reading will probably take off too! I'm sitting here crying because she has been deprived of this for so long, but it will be a wonderful moment when everything becomes clear. I remember that feeling when I got my first glasses about 12 years ago. I almost cried then, so I'm sure I will cry when she puts hers on. Maybe I should have Daddy take her. LOL!

2008-01-08T13:07:00.000-06:00

We just ordered Hip Hop Abs, and it came yesterday! Jayla was just dancing away to it and loving it! There was a bonus Yoga workout on the DVD as well, so she did that next. That girl is going to be fit her whole life. She generally eats healthy and loves to exercise, and she's already thin and flexible!

The yoga workout was nearly done when she was in some sort of twisted position. She looked back at me and very confidently said "I'm good at this!" I agreed with her and encouraged her to do it often. :)

Jonathan and Jacob have been playing with trains again. They got several more for a late Christmas gift from extended family, so they are now in there building and sharing and who knows what else is involved. I'll have to go play it with them and report back. :)

2007-12-26T12:19:00.000-06:00

Baby Jack just wants to nurse all the time, so that's what he's doing now.....while also watching TV! LOL!

Jayla is watching PBS cartoons.

The boys are playing with their new train set and other toys they got for Christmas. I can hear them choo-chooing in the play room. :)

It has been snowing for a while, so we'll go out and play after we eat something. I think hot chocolate will be perfect for afterward.

2007-12-18T11:17:00.000-06:00

Right now Jacob is watching a show about trucks called "Real Wheels". Jonathan has always loved that show, but it's not on very often. We don't have cable, so they pretty much only watch PBS, DVDs or videos, but that still gives us lots of choices! He is also trying to share a car with Jayla and is getting upset because "Sissy won't share it." She doesn't want to play with it! I think he's really sleepy. LOL!

Jayla is also watching the show with Jacob, but she is concentrating more on the snowman she cut out. She is getting quite good at cutting! I really can't even tell the difference between her cutouts and Jonathan's now! She has also learned to ask before she cuts, because the other side had something on it that I was going to get. It was sort of a coupon, and now I don't have it. She is probably more disappointed than I am, so hopefully she'll ask next time. :)

Jack is also watching the show! LOL! He has been very content all morning so far. I've just nursed him a couple of times, but otherwise he has sat contently on the couch with Jayla. She is playing with and talking to him some. Earlier this morning Jonathan carried Jack around for a few minutes in his own pouch sling. It was really cute, and Jack seemed to like it!

Jonathan is doing the laundry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He recently learned how to work the washing machine (he could have learned it long ago, but I didn't want to teach him all of it at once, so I only taught him the dryer), so now that he knows it all, he is shuffling around the laundry for me! I told him last night how much it helps me and that I really, REALLY appreciate it! He did 2 or 3 loads yesterday and is on the 2nd one today! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, now he came through the house with a shovel so he can scrape the rest of the ice off the front porch! I'm not sure where this desire to work is coming from, but I hope it continues! LOL!

Now Jack is calling again. Another great "moment" in our house. :)

2007-12-14T15:27:00.000-06:00

Jack just woke up, so Jayla is going to get her coat that he was laying on and go outside with Jonathan and ride bikes again. Jacob is watching cartoons. Their favorite, Curious George, just ended.

2007-12-14T12:43:00.000-06:00

Jonathan (7) is watching Reading Rainbow and learning how to make costumes from the first sketches to the finished product. He is interested in watching that because he really wants to make costumes for his team of superheroes. :)

Jayla (5) and Jacob (3) are taking turns riding her bike. It still has training wheels and Jonathan's doesn't, so they really are learning how to take turns and be fair with the amount of time they spend on it. (Jonathan just learned how to ride, btw, and is getting quiet good! He is getting a new, bigger bike for Christmas, and Jacob will get his old one.)

Jack (5 mos) is sick again! :( He is sleeping beside me.

2007-12-13T18:23:00.000-06:00

Jonathan is really into this group called "Sons of Tennessee". www.sonsoftennessee.com They sing some hymns as well as patriotic songs, and he just absolutely loves the CD! He is very patriotic! He is singing along with it right now. He actually has the first song on repeat. LOL

Jayla is playing with Jack right now. He is laughing at her. :)

Jacob is playing in the kitchen with a fire truck. He likes to roll it around on the hard floor because it goes farther. It is also louder in there because of the acoustics!

Now Jonathan is in here playing with Jayla and Jack. Jayla has connected her arm to Jack's arm via his sleeve. LOL Jonathan is smiling at Jack telling him how silly Sissy is.

Jacob just wrapped his fire truck in a jacket then unwrapped it and said "My new fire truck!" LOL He's been bringing me my Christmas present from him several times a day wanting me to open it.

Now Jonathan is climbing the wall in the doorway. Man, so much can happen in a couple of minutes!

2007-12-13T11:50:00.000-06:00

Jayla is playing with Jack. He is sitting under the tree looking at the lights. :) She is also drawing.....we have been drawing different cats and dogs all morning.

Jonathan has been working on his comic book. (He has been building a whole team of superheros for a few months now and even has a few villains!) Now he says he will finish it later and is "helping" Jacob with a toy.

Jacob is having cute little conversations between the different truck drivers. LOL

It's another fun day! Gotta run. Jack needs me again!!!!! Jayla is bringing him to me. :)

2007-12-11T18:49:00.000-06:00

The kids are eating gingerbread cookies that they just made a little while ago. They are actually premade Wilton gingerbread men that they put icing and candy on! They are also watching this cute little oppossum eating right outside the glass door. It is literally inches away from the kids as they watch him. I am sitting about 8 feet away.....he's so cute! Jacob was beating on the door and it didn't budge! I guess it's too hungry to be scared away! My mom and dad feed the wild animals, so they have all kinds come around for the food; turkeys, cats, armadillos, birds, squirrels, an EMU!!!!! They are all really unique in some way and so fascinating to watch.

2007-11-29T12:38:00.000-06:00

My kids are having so much fun right now. At the moment they are playing with their baby brother, helping him hold on to objects and watching to make sure he stays safe with them (it's a toy lizard and a pen). For a while before this though, they were making different shapes with clay and making up funny poems, different variations of nurery rhymes they already know. They just crack themselves up! LOL! Actually, they're cracking me up too! :) Since their baby brother's name is a common name in nursery rhymes (Jack), they're always going around chanting the little rhymes, filling in other words that might fit better for what they want (like "baby" instead of "little" or our last name in place of "Little Jack Horner", etc.)

Okay, Jack's done with them! More "moments" to come.

2007-09-20T12:41:00.000-05:00

I slept in LATE this morning! My kids just let me sleep while they quietly watched cartoons and played. So this is what our home looked like this morning when I woke up.....at 10:00!!!

The TV was on PBS, very low volume, and there was some science show on talking about microbes. We watched it yesterday too. The kids were all sitting on the floor playing very nicely together with the Magnetix. They haven't gotten them out in months because Jacob would put the little magnetic balls in his mouth. Jonathan told me that Jacob had put one in his mouth this morning, but he took it out when Jonathan told him to and didn't do it again. I'm glad Jonathan was paying attention!!!

It was so cute. Jayla discovered that the magnetic pieces would stick to the dominoes tin (I guess they had been playing with those too), so she built this maze thing. She stood the pieces up on end and had them spread out all around the tin. Jacob asked her if a car could drive through there. :) She was even sticking the pieces to the sides so that they stood up really tall. Next she took all the little balls she had (9 total) and started grouping them and then added, subtracted, multiplied and divided the little balls. She was having a blast! Also, the whole time she was practicing saying her R's. She's really good at it now, but she just doesn't always remember.

I think Jonathan was trying to make similar shapes to the microbes he was seeing on TV. He asked me questions about germs and asked me what a heart really looks like (which we just looked up). Jacob kept sticking the different magnetic pieces together and saying "Look at this-uh, Mommy. Quick!" :)

Once I was done feeding Jack, Jonathan helped with the laundry and Jayla burped Jack for me while I made some oatmeal. So far it's been a great morning. :)

2007-09-19T18:01:00.000-05:00

Right now Jayla is sitting next to Jack (who is sleeping) "reading" a book. She told me she is making a story up from the pictures. I'm not sure what book it is, but she's telling me she really likes snow. Earlier, on the way to a friend's, Jonathan had his Bible in the van and he was helping Jayla read some words! :)

Jacob fell asleep just down the street from our house and I couldn't wake him up to walk inside! So I had to carry him in, and he is still sleeping. We're about to leave, so I'll have to carry him back out. (sigh)

Jonathan has been reading a book about experiments/crafts. He just showed me something he wants to make for Daddy. He recently did one experiment (from this book) where you put toothpicks in a potato and leave it half-submerged in a jar of water and it is supposed to "grow a jungle". He made one for Mandie's daughter too, so we'll see which one grows faster (if she kept hers). He wants to decorate his room with a jungle theme! LOL! Now he is finishing up a story we were all making up on the way home. We each took turns to tell different parts to the story. They usually turn out pretty funny. :)

We also talk about Bible stories and play math games in the car as well as lots of other things. It seems like there is always a lot of learning going on when we are driving!!! Oh, another thing we were just doing today is we were taking turns going around saying words that rhymed. Jayla did a lot better than I thought she would! It was fun! :)

Okay, time to go to dance and AWANA! There are sure to be more stories and games as well. :)

2007-09-18T10:49:00.000-05:00

Well, I heard the back door close a minute ago, and I thought it was Jonathan either coming in or going out.....I wasn't sure. So I was about to type that the kids were watching Little House on the Prairie (which they love, but I think they're moving on to other things), but when I turned around they were all gone! LOL!

So Jonathan just came in and sat down to eat his oatmeal. He's been out feeding the animals. Jacob finished his oatmeal and went out to play, and Jayla wanted to finish her oatmeal outside, I guess. I just hope she eats it before the dogs get it! Jack is starting to wake up, so I'll have to feed him. Jayla just screamed, so Jonathan is checking on her. How sweet. :) She's okay. The dog was trying to get her food and she fell. Jonathan is starting to watch the Nature show that he didn't get to finish last night.

We're getting ready to go to the library for scrapbooking and play. I'm going to bring a couple of games for the kids.

Time to feed Jack.

2007-09-17T23:22:00.000-05:00

Right now Jayla and I are just getting settled since we just got home from Disney on Ice. She saved some cotton candy for her brothers, so they are enjoying that while watching a Nature DVD from the library. Myles just gave Jacob and Jack a bath, and now he is taking one. I'll have to feed Jack any minute now, I'm sure, but for now we're just all relaxing and winding down for the night....and learning about chimps at the moment. :)

2007-04-16T15:55:00.000-05:00

I'm doing my own variation of square foot gardening, and we FINALLY planted our first seeds in the ground just now! :) We planted corn, sunflowers (for the cukes to climb), carrots, beets and some nasturtiums (for pest control). We still have quite a bit more to plant, but some will be started inside (late on that too!) and some will have to wait until after the rain we're supposed to get tomorrow. We had such a special time though. The kids planted most of the squares by themselves (with my guidance), and when we were done with what we had for today, we each prayed that God would bless it. I hadn't planned on the prayer, that was just a spur-of-the-moment idea, I'm sure from God Himself. :) Jonathan prayed that the sunflowers would grow as high as a skyscraper. LOL! Jayla told God that she's wanted a garden for a really long time. :) I loved it!

2007-04-09T11:13:00.000-05:00

My own unschooling moment of the day, if you want to call it that, was at a friend's house for Lego Club. It was with the snacks. I expected my kids to be begging for candy the whole time, but they just played without eating anything until close to time to leave. Not only that, but they were satisfied with the limit I put on them (I just can't totally "let go" when it comes to food because I just feel so strongly about it). Then my youngest didn't even have any candy to my knowledge but chose a banana instead! Woohoo!!! :) So I guess my point is that I let them have more freedom than I used to, and they made better choices than I really expected! I just really need to trust them more, even when it comes to food. Sure they'll make bad choices occasionally, but they will learn from their own mistakes (upset tummy or something like that). I draw the line when I feel it is a safety issue, but otherwise I am still learning to let go little by little and let them live as I guide, not control them. :)

2007-02-02T15:04:00.000-06:00

Well, we're watching cartoons right now (Thomas, now Curious George), but just a half hour or so ago, we were cleaning the very messy living room since Daddy has been requesting it all week!!! We've also been drawing on the easel that has a chalkboard on one side, a dry erase board on the other side and a roll of paper in the middle that you can pull out and over the top to draw on if you don't choose the other sides. They've been drawing all week on it!

The kids also got to spend their own money earlier this week, and they chose wisely. I was so proud of them. :) Jonathan even had a little money left over. One of the things he got was a Hotwheels race track for $5, so they've been playing with that for the last 3 days too, as well as other tracks.

Jayla recently got a paper doll craft set, so they've been making several paper dolls using stencils, paper, stickers and markers. Oh, and we also went to the Moore library book sale last weekend and bought several books, so they've been reading a lot trying to get through all the "new" books.

So that's mostly what we've been doing all week, but at this moment, it is quiet and they are watching cartoons. I actually have a moment to myself. :) I'm thinking it's nap time!

2006-11-11T20:32:00.000-06:00

The kids have a song playing on the keyboard (one of those prerecorded songs where you just push a button and it plays). It is Jacob's favorite one, so he is always going back to start it again, and then he jumps up and down and spins around. :) His 2nd birthday was yesterday, so we went out to lunch today, then went to Mardel so he could play with the Thomas train set in the children's area, then Myles took them over to PetSmart for a few minutes. After we got home, Jayla and Jacob woke up from their very short naps in the van, and we watched the new VeggieTales DVD before opening presents and having cake and ice cream. Then Jacob got in his birthday suit (LOL) and took a bath with his new bugs that Jonathan got him. They are all in the bedroom now fighting over the bugs (not too bad....LOL) and dancing and playing with the other things he got. Jonathan just asked me if I could read the next chapter in "Little House in the Big Woods". I think we're on chapter five tonight! :) Jayla and Jonathan both are loving the book so far! One of our morning rituals during the week is to watch Little House on the Prairie every day, so I'm not surprised that they are really interested in the book. I've never read them before, so I am enjoying it just as much! :)

2006-08-22T14:11:00.000-05:00

How cute! I just had some pretend birthday cake. Jayla shared it with me even though I didn't play school with her! (I really have no idea why she wanted to play school, but her version of school seems like a lot of fun!) She likes to serve pretend food all the time, but usually to her stuffed animals and dolls. She would probably like to run a restaurant, but I guess it's never occurred to her. :)

2006-08-22T13:37:00.000-05:00

At the moment Jacob is in the bathtub, but I think he's ready to get out. Jayla is watching cartoons. She doesn't take regular naps anymore, but she still falls asleep occasionally. Oh! I didn't realize she had yarn, and she just informed me she knows how to tie a knot now! Great!!! She showed it to me, and it looks good! Jacob just ran in here naked, wet and laughing. LOL! Jonathan is making a spider out of pipe cleaners and is trying to decide the best method for hanging it from the ceiling.....looks like another pipe cleaner. Well, I guess he decided to hang if from the TV antennae instead. LOL!

This is fun, writing while it's actually happening! :) Gotta get off the computer now. Jacob is telling me "UP! UP! UP!" I guess he's ready for me to hold him now. :D

2006-01-01T12:34:00.000-06:00

Unschooling Resources

************* BOOKS *************
Learning All the Time by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201550911
How Children Learn by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484048
How Children Fail by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484021
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt and Patrick Farenga
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0738206946
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525134379
Moving a Puddle and Other Essaysby Sandra Dodd
http://sandradodd.com/puddlebook
The Relaxed Home School: A Family Productionby Mary Hood
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0963974009
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life & Education by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959170
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go To School by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959138
The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761501924
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroomby Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761512764
The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677140
The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761535705
Homeschooling Our Children; Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0965780627
Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865713421
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Lifeby Rue Kream
http://www.freechild.info/
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865714487
A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls by Susanna Sheffer http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0867094052
In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligencesby Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1585420514
Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligencesby Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0452281377
You're Smarter Than You Think: A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1575421135
For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer MacAulay
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/089107290X
Learning At Home: A Mother's Guide To Homeschooling by Marty Layne
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0968293824
Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Loveby David H. Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567513700
Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567512321
The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0785281754
Better Late Than Earlyby Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0883490498
School Can Waitby Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0842513140
Coloring Outside the Lines by Roger Schank
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060930772
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise & Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0618001816
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0972941606
Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement by John Holt, Susannah Sheffer
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677108
The Day I Became an Autodidactby Kendall Hailey
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0440550130
The Book of Learning and Forgettingby Frank Smith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/080773750X
Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0943914051
Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/091367706X
And the Children Played by Patricia Joudry
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0912766166
With Consent: Parenting for All to Win by Jan Fortune-Wood
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1900219247
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0714508799
*************PERIODICALS*************
Home Education Magazine:
http://www.homeedmag.com/index.html
Live Free, Learn Free:
http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/
Life Learning:
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/
*************WEBSITES*************
Unschooling Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
Unschooling.com:
http://www.unschooling.com/ (See "Library" & "Message Boards")
Car Talk Guys:
Education:
The Learning of Skills We Will Never Need?
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/
The Education Forum
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/
The New Theory of Learning
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/r-rlast15.html
The Education Forum II
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/index2.html
Autodidactic Press:
http://www.autodidactic.com/
Libertarian Unschooling:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6529/index1.html
Unschooling Undefined:
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UnschoolingUndefined.html
Home's Cool A to Z:
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/methods/Unschooling.htm
Sandra Dodd:
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling.html
Child-led Natural Learning:
http://www.alternative-learning.org/
Delight-Driven Learning:
http://home-educate.com/unschooling/index.shtml
Family Unschoolers Network:
http://www.fun-books.com/
The Natural Child Project:
http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/earl_stevens.html
AHA Information Page:
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/info.html
Amy Bell's Natural Learning:
http://home.rmci.net/abell/
Alfie Kohn:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm
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