Stories of an Unschooling Family

Our wombat died. It was alive when I walked to the village salon for an eyebrow appointment. I didn't actually see it, but it wasn't lying on its back at the side of the road. That's what Gemma-Rose saw when she returned home from work at the end of the day.

I've seen a lot of dead wombats recently. On Sunday, there were more lifeless wombats on the side of the motorway...

Looking out of our living room window, I watched two crimson rosellas chasing away a few bigger king parrots, wanting all the seed that I’d placed in the bowl on the front garden grass for themselves.

King parrots never visited our garden, hoping for food when Nora was alive. Perhaps they don't like dog kibble. Olive-backed orioles do. S...

Edition 02 of my Christian unschooling newsletter, A Million Love Stories, is now available to read!

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Is it good for us to finish everything we start? Perhaps perseverance makes us strong and dependable.

We might finish all those books that we lose interest in after a few chapters. We complete the course we signed up for, even when we realise it’s not what we’d hoped it would be. Perhaps we make our kids continue their music lessons even when they hate them. Afte...

This is the story of my three recent unschool newsletter experiments.

The first newsletter failed.

The verdict on the second one is still out, but things are looking good.

And the third newsletter? It doesn’t matter if it’s successful or not, because its production isn’t dependent on subscriber numbers. This newsletter is something I wan...