Homeschooling

Here you’ll get a glimpse at our homeschooling life. We’re a homeschooling family of three (going on four) and our kids have never been to traditional school. The best thing about homeschooling is being able to customize learning for each individual child’s needs. As a result our children are social beings that love learning and learn every day in ways that are fun, educational and inspiring.

Seven Myths about Homeschoolers Video

February 7, 2012

As a homeschooling parent, I do sometimes deal with assumptions about homeschooling when talking to friends whose kids are in school (public or private). Some of these are in this video, which is really funny -  at least where I’m standing as a homeschooling parent. The assumption that the kids don’t get to socialize is [...]

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The beauty of natural silks play

February 1, 2012

Around here we love silks for both girls and boys. They use them from early on as creative playing toys…yes toys. My kids make forts, tents, ropes, play food, capes, baby doll blankets, and more. Some of the silks come in ready-made toys such as garlands and capes. And even these have additional creative play [...]

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Lingering Thursdays ~ A boy and his tunnel

January 5, 2012

Taking his new train set and blocks that we’ve had now for a long time, my little Evren decided to build a tunnel for his train. I could linger in this moment watching him concentrate as he puts the pieces together.

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Making plans for 2012

December 19, 2011

It’s still about two weeks for New Year’s Day 2012 and already I’ve been busy making plans for 2012 for Granola Babies. When you own a store or a business, it’s like your baby, so you’re always making plans for it and thinking ahead. Lately, I’ve been thinking about our events – we have lots [...]

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Learning to knit

November 9, 2011

Inspired by the idea of being able to knit really fun things for the kids, in terms of crafts and toys to play with, I am determined to learn to knit. Oh, yes I know you’re thinking….you don’t knit already!?! Because it does seem like many many of my friends knit on a regular basis [...]

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Ways we learn about numbers and counting

November 7, 2011

We’re a Waldorf-inspired homeschooling family and so we learn using seasons and nature. But, one thing I love about homeschooling – in any way is the flexibility. Our “week” actually starts on Fridays because I do work at my store as well as being a homeschooling mama. So, instead of Monday-Friday, we do Friday, Sunday, [...]

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An Autumn Day in Nature

September 17, 2011

This week we were enjoying Fall (or Southern California’s version of it) by spending a lot of time at one of our favorite places – Irvine Regional Park. Especially for those of you, who like me, live in more urban areas, if you have a forest preserve, regional park, wilderness park in your area, I [...]

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What is homeschooling to you?

September 15, 2011

There are so many different ways to homeschool – from which curriculum to use (if any), to which extra classes to send the kids to, to doing unschooling all together and more.  However as a homeschooling mother to me homeschooling means that my kids learn through home and nature most of the time and then [...]

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Children Art Play – Simply done.

July 25, 2011

Art runs in my husband’s family. His grandfather was an artist, his father is as well and now so is my daughter. She expresses herself in art, she sees everything with an artistic eye. While I use a camera to capture a moment, my daughter uses art, asking for a piece of paper and pencil [...]

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A day of good eating

July 15, 2011

Our day today started off like every other Thursday – the local farmer’s market. We’re lucky in Southern California because we can go to the farmer’s market all year around, but summer time is especially nice as there are some of our favorites in season. Juicy strawberries, delicious nectarines and the sweetest corn. For my [...]

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