http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com Autonomous Education - Our way! Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:39:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We don’t follow any sort of curriculum here or even pay much heed to whether our life is broad and balanced, assuming it sort of has to be in order to work and as our education is merely living then it must be broad and balanced along the way really. ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2008/08/03/end-of-year-report/ Way,way, way,way,way back in the mists of time - well 2005 several people on what was at the time the MuddlePuddle blogring did a photoblog day of our ‘typical home ed day’. We joined in then in 2005, again in 2006 and 2007 and I’ve been meaning to do it ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/photoblog-day-2008-now-with-added-tables/ 2008 looks set to be a big year for the MonsterTeenies. As a family we’ve been doing lots of talking about our lives, how we want them to be and how to go about getting there. That’s the thing about stepping outside of the norm in one area of your ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2008/02/11/and-following-swiftly-on/ There was a thread on the EarlyYearsHomeEd list recently about the differences in definitions of approaches. I have posted what I would consider the definitions to be over there but it’s set me thinking a bit about autonomy, child-led, unschooling and all the other labels we hear used in relation ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2008/02/11/learning-learning-everywhere/ It’s been a while since I was last here. I do keep another, far more regularly updated blog which is more of a diary type of account of stuff we get up to, I tend to keep this one for more HE specific ramblings, but is so often the case ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/09/30/too-busy-thinking-no-time-to-blog/ When I fell pregnant with Monster I read a lot of parenting books. Actually, no that’s a lie, I bought a lot of parenting books, most of them sat, unread, on a bookshelf dedicated to self improvement alongside titles such as ‘make money from home- 100 tried and tested business ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/08/29/by-the-book/ For some reason, although I obviously knew it to be the case, it has only really occured to me in the last week or two that Teeny would be about to start school in a couple of weeks time. Teeny has never been going to go to school, we started ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/08/17/i-want-to-thank-you/ Three Kessinglands, two Melroses, two NicCamps, a HESFes and an Okehampton. The core group of all of the Home Ed camps we’ve attended have been roughly the same people although there have been omissions and additions along the way. Last week we went to our third Kessingland, our fifth Muddlepuddle ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/07/07/home-ed-camp-the-ninth/ I’ve been tagged by Shukr who’s blog I’ve just been catching up on (Hi, btw, nice to ‘meet’ you ) for this meme which is rather similar to one I was tagged for a while back so rather than recreate similar answers for that one I thought I’d ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/06/08/8-things-meme/ Some chick pics at 2.5 weeks Wobble Freddie   Punzel:   Feathers: and Rhonda: They continue to be very entertaining and amusing additions to the household. The cat hates them, Teeny has a scratch on her knee and one on her shoulder where she’s gotten in the way of their flappy flying and both children are ... http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/06/04/for-liza/