Unschooling

 

As I have written in previous posts, one of the most valuable lessons that parenting teaches me is flexibility. Personally, I struggle with control. Control of my environment, control of my emotions, control of my creativity and now that I am a mother, control of my child and HER environment, emotions and creativity. Oy vey!!

 Camille is like most kids I know who just wants to be free to do her own thing and within reason, that is totally okay so this is where my flexibility lesson comes in to play. Home school is no exception since it is preschool and all she really needs to be learning are things that she has a pretty firm grasp on like, colors, shapes, letters and numbers. Everything else is just gravy at this point so lately, we have been branching out and exploring some things outside of the curriculum and having a great time bonding at the same time.

 It's amazing the things you learn while baking, mixing watercolors, dyeing fabric or scouring the beach for sea shells. The possibilities for discovery are endless. What a beautiful life we live!

We're Back With New Adventures!

Years fly by here in Momland. Camille has sprouted several inches, put on a few pounds and added 200 or more necessary and sometimes amusing words to her vocabulary. She is more quirky and hilarious with every passing day.

She just finished her first year of what we loosely refer to as preschool and sadly, we have not been too impressed with the results so we decided to save some money and try our hands at home school...yes, you read right, HOME SCHOOL! I never thought I would have considered it but we are in desperate need of a little reprogramming with love and kindness before she joins the real world of public school. So off we go! I am planning to capture the highs and lows of this journey, if I can fit it in between sewing for my new business and teaching the future president of America how to read.

oxo-n