Category: Unschooling

The Greatest Things

Catch and Store Energy, Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Consumerism, Create Vision and Respond to Change, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling

“Great Things are done by a series of small things being brought together” -Vincent VanGogh As we inch our way into 2018 we have found ourselves commiserating about all of the things that we did not accomplish in 2017.  The gardens weren’t well tended and yields were low, we didn’t have any goslings in the […]

January 14, 2018

Cutting the Tethers

Create Vision and Respond to Change, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Life Choices, Maximize the Edges, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

Making the descent into the unknown is a scary ride.  We are currently working our way out of this wonderful home that has been our comfort for over 8 years.  I love this house.  It makes me feel good.  But it has become clear that it no longer serves us.  We were different people than […]

February 29, 2016

How to Step Into the Darkness

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, From Pattern to Details, Maximize the Edges, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling

We are blessed to live in Canada, with four seasons.  The season of autumn signals the beginning of turning inward.  A time for dreaming and planning while cozy indoors for the winter months.  But it doesn’t seem so enticing as the days are growing shorter and we are losing the time in daylight to wrap […]

November 12, 2015

Missing Out

Consumerism, Cultivate Diversity, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Life Choices, Maximize the Edges, Observe and Interact, Parenting, People Care, Permaculture for Children, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

The downside of a digitized culture is that it makes it so easy to feel like we’re ‘missing out’ on things.  Here I find another place where I’m unlearning what has been bestowed upon me.  I will on occasion experience feelings of loss because of the choices we’re making as a family to diverge from […]

June 19, 2015

Goal Oriented

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Parenting, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling

I am currently struggling with my lack of defined goals for the future.  Now that I’m a stay-at-home unschooling mom, I feel lost at times, wanting there to be some sort of tangible short term goal to reach.  There isn’t one.  And as far as my children’s education is concerned, I don’t want there to […]

June 16, 2015