EternaLearning Academy

This is the first of hopefully many posts about unschooling and how my son is learning. I have a “short” list of what he already knows from interacting with his world at http://www.geocities.com/kingzjewel/unschool.html , but I wanted a more detailed way of putting things together for my special little guy.

He just showed me the other day that he can put a four picture story board into sequence from beginning to end. At this moment he is singing part of a song from his favorite movie Charlotte’s Web 2.

I try to let him tell me what he wants to do. He is a very independent person and wants to learn things either on his own or with someone showing him once or twice. If he doesn’t get it after his second try on his own he kind of asks for more help **temper tantrum** but that’s ok because he doesn’t have a whole lot of words to express himself yet. He won’t be two until February.

I’m a new unschooler. This is my first child. I am seen as a person who parents “differently”…in other words I’m totally off my rocker, but my son is reaping the benefits of his mother and father being more liberal than many. My husband does his best to trust my instincts about our child. Sometimes it gets hard for him because there are many things I do that he has never heard of such as unschooling. He has always been supportive and once armed with all the facts, he’s an unstoppable force that continues to ensure that I have the freedom to raise our child as my instincts direct. Being christians, unschooling is bound to look a bit different than secular unschooling. So have fun learning about what he learns God bless.