Posts by Nani

I use old cotton diapers for most of my cleaning, but have to admit that I still use paper towels for some pet/kitchen/human messes. Thanks for all the great tips here on getting me in the right direction!

oh! I had no idea that something like Family Pastimes games exist! Yay! And they have so many of them on their website. They sound just perfect for our family!

My dh was recently complaining that a lot of the board games that are available are geared towards an attitude that only caters to fate ("oh well, that is what the dice rolled!" meaning we have no control over our lives) or...

I love your sentence about " giving them the world instead of breaking it down into worksheets..."

I'm so excited My older dd, who will turn 6 in October, is learning to read and write now. The reason I'm so excited is that the unschooling idea of letting go of pressure or feeling the need to teach them to write/read is working so...

My older dd went to preschool for a year and we decided to live the unschooling life when it became clear that her sensitive nature didn't thrive in a preschool environment. We have been doing great, somewhat surviving on a single and...

My SIL works for Leapfrog and we're inundated with their toys And the one you have mentioned too. Both my 3 yo and almost 6 yo spent the first week or so doing the drawing and they found it quite entertaining. Then they put the thing...

Wenn Du willst, kannst Du mir ja emailen! My dd1 used to go to preschool (here in the US most kids go to preschool from age 2.9-5, then they go to "Kindergarten" for only one year, followed by first grade and so on, whereas in...

Thank you for all the great suggestions! All of them are very valid points and need some deeper investigation and premeditation on my behalf. My worst case scenario is that I would say/do things on camera that would leave the producers...

It looks like me and my family will be interviewed for a video segment on unschooling for Voice of America, an international news organization that translates their stories into 40+ languages. Do any of you have any experience with this?...