Tag: baby

  • Summer “School”

    For us “schooling” never ends. Even when it’s not “official” of course. All life is education.

    I’ve been very slack with the children of late, but since the 4th of July is now past I’ll be ramping up more and more as the summer goes on. There’s much to catch up on since in 2007 we had a new baby and things have been light ever since really. (My eldest born was 4 years old in 2000 when the third was born, and not officially schooling until he was 6/7, so we never “had a baby” during our official homeschooling years until 2007.)

    Unofficial education has occurred every day, but it doesn’t count towards any saved information as a whole, just fragments that apply to many things here and there, they count but not in that “official” way, in other words.

    There is much freedom in the whole year for homeschoolers who don’t “set up” an actual classroom experience in their home, so I don’t feel bad about doing school stuff during the summer. I remember how summer felt for me when I was young, but that was a different way of life, and my children don’t have that overbearing feeling of life most of the year that I had. Summer was freedom, and that’s what homeschooling is too. Freedom to learn whenever, and to get more done overall as well.