A Day in the Life of…An Introduction
A day in the life of…
I want to start having regular postings about our days. I know many people out there who are interested in unschooling and want to know ‘how it works’ and ‘what it looks like’ on a daily basis. So, I am going to attempt to grab days at random and days that seem to showcase ‘what it is’ to unschool.
I think it’s important to know that unschooling looks very different in every unschooling home. While you are waiting for me to start posting about our days, please visit some of the blogs on the right that I have listed, so that you can find snippets of other families’ daily lives and grand adventures.
I haven’t quite decided just how I am going to go about doing this. I’m not sure whether or not I want to journal the lucky days, as in: at 10am we woke up and did such and such until this happened at noon and so on and so on. Or I could showcase bits of days that are good examples of ‘unschooling moments’…not that every moment isn’t unschooling, but I think you know what I mean. I’m not sure just how bored I want readers to be! I feel like if I only present moments from a day, then readers who are new to or contemplating unschooling might think thats all there is or that there isn’t down time and moments of ‘nothing’ and ‘free play’. We’ll see how things develop here and change over time.
Can’t wait to read about the days. Are you on Radical Unschoolers Network where Ren challenged folks to do do this? I’ve been contemplating the same idea and can’t decide on format.
Comment by kim — August 3, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
Yes, I am a member of Radical Unschoolers’ Network. I’ve wanted to start this peep into our days thing for awhile now, but Ren’s blog carnival challenge has given me motivation to start this new bit now.
Comment by michele james-parham — August 3, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I try to catalog the ’small moments’ of daily life on my blog, how I see things from my perspective, not just ‘we did this’, ‘we did that’. I would love to see your day through the small moments! After all, these are what make up most of our lives, don’t you agree?
Comment by Lune — August 3, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Yes Lune, I agree and I am sure that this is how I will end up sharing our moments. I guess if I am going to meet the challenge by the 5th, I need to get started!
Comment by michele james-parham — August 3, 2008 @ 6:57 pm