Let's talk about the blog title.
Sometime ago, Tammy at Just Enough and Nothing More issued a challenge to describe your homeschooling philosophy in just 30 seconds. My answer to that was and still is loving, living and learning.
It's quite simple really. Nothing I can teach my children will be more important than raising them to be loving, kind individuals. So our primary focus is love and what that really means toward how we live our lives. It's not something we approach academically or even philosophically. Rather it is OJT ... on the job training. Or more accurately, TDT ... through the day training. It's not about what we do but how we do it.
Living isn't really second as it isn't a linear list. Living is just what we do. Again, focusing on doing that well. Living in balance. Taking care of our bodies, our minds, our spirits. Practical skills will come from the chore lists, the errands we run, the projects we tackle together.
Learning is inevitable. In fact, unschoolers have an official Learn Nothing Day to illustrate and emphasize that very point. Learning is inevitable. At least, I hope that we are living our lives so that is a true statement in our home. Stirring our curiosity, increasing our skill levels so that we can pursue whatever knowledge lures us, challenging ourselves to be aware of all there is to learn.
Notice that I speak of us. This isn't just a philosophy that is applied to our children but to us, as parents, as well. It's a good rule of life, I think. Love. Live. Learn. Hmmm, I think I just thought of another one. Laugh. Yeah, there should definitely be a lot of laughter. Maybe I will add that to my title as well.
Yesterday, I added the subtitle "this is how we live our life" Immediately I thought that doesn't agree. Speaking of we, I should have said "how we live our lives" There are individual lives being led but at the same time, there is this entity that is us, that is family. The individual lives are part of making up that one life. That one life is the subject of this blog.
But you've still yet to meet the individuals. Be patient, be patient, introductions are still to come.
Sometime ago, Tammy at Just Enough and Nothing More issued a challenge to describe your homeschooling philosophy in just 30 seconds. My answer to that was and still is loving, living and learning.
It's quite simple really. Nothing I can teach my children will be more important than raising them to be loving, kind individuals. So our primary focus is love and what that really means toward how we live our lives. It's not something we approach academically or even philosophically. Rather it is OJT ... on the job training. Or more accurately, TDT ... through the day training. It's not about what we do but how we do it.
Living isn't really second as it isn't a linear list. Living is just what we do. Again, focusing on doing that well. Living in balance. Taking care of our bodies, our minds, our spirits. Practical skills will come from the chore lists, the errands we run, the projects we tackle together.
Learning is inevitable. In fact, unschoolers have an official Learn Nothing Day to illustrate and emphasize that very point. Learning is inevitable. At least, I hope that we are living our lives so that is a true statement in our home. Stirring our curiosity, increasing our skill levels so that we can pursue whatever knowledge lures us, challenging ourselves to be aware of all there is to learn.
Notice that I speak of us. This isn't just a philosophy that is applied to our children but to us, as parents, as well. It's a good rule of life, I think. Love. Live. Learn. Hmmm, I think I just thought of another one. Laugh. Yeah, there should definitely be a lot of laughter. Maybe I will add that to my title as well.
Yesterday, I added the subtitle "this is how we live our life" Immediately I thought that doesn't agree. Speaking of we, I should have said "how we live our lives" There are individual lives being led but at the same time, there is this entity that is us, that is family. The individual lives are part of making up that one life. That one life is the subject of this blog.
But you've still yet to meet the individuals. Be patient, be patient, introductions are still to come.
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