Eclectic Parent

OK every week is technically a homeschool week, but we just seemed to finally get out of our holiday mode and see people this week. Tuesday was park day. We haven’t been since before our trip to Mexico so it’s been a while. It was a small park day but the kids had a good […]

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Sometimes I’m asked where I get ideas. Homeschooling is certainly not done in a vacuum. There are books about homeschooling, books of resources, tons of website and support groups. One group I belong to is an online resource sharing group for unschoolers. No philosophical discussions about unschooling and its merits, just resources your family finds […]

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We had a really hot summer this year. It felt to stay hotter longer. We stayed in the house for the end of the summer. It seems we recently started playing on our bikes and running in the back yard. I guess I wasn’t imagining the warm weather though. […]

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Today is a great example of what can be done without a curriculum. So many people equate no curriculum with no learning, no plan with nothing getting accomplished. While it’s possible to say our kids are never learning, it is equally true to say they are always learning. We don’t feel that our children need […]

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Ah, Akumal: “place of the turtles” in Mayan. It’s a small town with a gorgeous stretch of white, soft, sandy beach and calm blue water. Why combine days eight through fourteen in one blog entry when all the rest of vacation has been individual days? Why has this been sitting as a draft for over […]

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Interrupting my next planned blog about our second week in Mexico, just to keep up with real life. Most of our free time since returning has been spent trying to get some of our 2000 photos sorted and uploaded to flickr; the first three days of vacation are now in our gallery on the blog […]

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We’re back home from Mexico. Just in very late last night, tired and with the third and final child vomiting. I’m missing a week of blog entries, have about 2000 photos to sort through and a ton of laundry to do. More later. We’re home. We’re tired We’re tan.

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