My daughter was asked last year if she celebrates Christmas. She said yes, then the girl asked if she gets presents. Another girl said 'Of course she does, everyone gets presents'. The first girl

Housekeeping note first: I deleted the response from me that quoted the first post. It was there so those reading by e-mail would see it. I think it still will have gone to everyone's e-mail, and

Hi Always Learning. I am very new to this group and to unschooling, and have never sent a post. Hope it works. When my daughters were 0.5 and 3.5, I remember talking to a veteran unschooling mother,

I want to go through those points individually and expand, and invite others to tell stories of their usefulness, too. This used to be understood better, I think—that if someone joined a group, it

In cleaning up the old apartment house, as it was, before its demolition, I'm going through yahoogroups, saving some descriptions, leaving forwarding-mail notices (figuratively), and I ended up in the

Two things, one about having a peaceful home, and the other about this group getting smoother. I think the settings are such that once a person has had a post approved, their subsequent posts won’t

I get a lot of "but what about college" type statements. My go to response is "Well I was homeschooled and I started college at 16 without any problems." That separates things pretty quickly into

-=-Can I still donate? Was a bit behind all this!! -=- If you really want to, I will gratefully accept it. The link is on my main page all the time, resting quietly. :-) But as to the pass-the-hat

We all say really dumb things when our brains aren't quite in gear. I wonder, though, if the lines between what children learn at home and what they learn at school get blurred more and more now that

Can I still donate? Was a bit behind all this!! Rachel Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Funny you should mention how the school system forces them into conformity. A family friend, who used to work in school(and whose mum used to be a teacher), asked how my daughter was going learn to

Those are more amusing than mine. The one I've gotten more recently is "How will they learn to read?" I have a lot of friends who homeschool or are thinking about homeschooling and a few of them put

This reminds me of the first time I ever heard about backpacking. I had whiteout too! What do you eat? Where do you go to the bathroom? I was fascinated to learn more. Hopefully kids and adults

Here in Ireland, catholic religious education is part of the school curriculum. My brother-in-law was quite bothered and asked me how my kids were ever going to get married because they wouldn’t

Holly’s telling me a story about a younger friend, early 20s, who dropped out of high school (or was booted). He’s a friend of her boyrfiend. She was telling me he was smart, but had asked her

-=-Wow! That was quick! I helped fund raise for two other groups and while we ended up with a bit of surplus it took a few weeks.-=- My husband doesn’t think I should say so quickly “goal is

Wow! That was quick! I helped fund raise for two other groups and while we ended up with a bit of surplus it took a few weeks. Sandra, I have put on my 2020 to-do list to participate more. Currently

Hello, I am so happy and grateful to Sandra and this group for being here all these years. It has been helpful and inspiring. I would love to contribute something. I am not sure how to. Thank you

The goal is met on #1, financial donations. The others, still consider, please! THANKS, EVERYONE! Sandra

The way I understood PayPal fees for sending money (in the U.S.) is that you only get charged fees if you use a debit/credit card when you send money or if the recipient invoices the request for