Category Archives: Junior High School Children Ages 12-15

Topics geared to tween and pre-teen aged children.

Education Will Always Occur, But School Must Be Consensual

We teach children about giving consent over their bodies, and then force them into an education situation in which they have no consent over what happens to their minds. Then we become surprised when children push back. Children are not … Continue reading

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Why Your Child Doesn’t Remember Last Months Lessons

One of the reasons I began unschooling was because I was homeschooling and diligently teaching my kids lessons that they didn’t remember the following week. After a few months, I questioned why I was wasting my time, voice, and energy … Continue reading

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Home Educated Kids are Not Sheltered

Are homeschooled kids sheltered? No. Not at all. It is a question I hear all the time and it makes me roll my eyeballs. It is impossible to keep a child away from society their whole childhood. Kids are naturally … Continue reading

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Unschooling Math: Children Will Learn Calculus When They Really Need It

“How will they learn the things they need to learn like Calculus?,” was a question posed to me the other day when I was explaining unschooling to a person at a BBQ. It was a good question, because we have … Continue reading

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Children Learn Grammar, Spelling and Vocabulary Without Being Taught

Curriculum can be so darn intimidating! All those workbooks on grammar, sentence structure and punctuation seem to be calling on your guilt if you don’t buy them. Will unschooled kids learn grammar even if you don’t directly teach it? You … Continue reading

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Can Unschoolers Attend College or University? YES!

Can unschoolers go to college and university? Yes! They absolutely can if they want to. We have just attended our children’s fourth university convocation and now we have a Masters in the family. Our five children unschooled 8-12 years and … Continue reading

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Terminology Matters: It’s Education, Not Schooling

“I will never let school interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain Definition: “School”  – an institution for educating children.  -Wikipedia.org Words matter in our society and the time has come where we all need to respect the uniqueness of parents … Continue reading

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Home Education Only Takes 1/10th the Time of Classroom and Online School

Am I doing enough? That is the question I would ask myself and it’s the question many new and perspective home education parents worry about. They have experienced fighting with their kids to do school homework up to 3 hours … Continue reading

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No “Summer-slide” Learning Loss Because Unschooling Education is Year Round

Summer learning loss occurs only when kids are forced to absorb the system’s agenda and curriculum. Research shows that students regress and lose about one month of school instruction during a long summer holiday, and a study from Ohio State … Continue reading

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When Kids Want to Try School

Every homeschooler or unschooler parent has it happen to them. Their child wants to try out this mystery thing called “school.” My daughter wanted to try school in grades 3, 7, 9, 10 and 12. She went. I had to … Continue reading

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