Family Unit 🌐 Homeschool

Okay Parents! Trust your instincts! Ask today what to teach and pass along. Let it unfold through a prayer, a ceremony, a song, a walk, a breathing meditation.  Throw out all the expectations cramping your flow and style. Shift and shake yourselves awake! We are not 9 to 5 zombies! We are loving earthlings here to be at peace with nature’s gifts and humanity awakened to see our days spent out of our most true value. How is your day divided? Did it serve you to fulfill health and happiness? Did it nurture you to the core and teach self mastery? Need some ideas to get flowing with? Stay posted as I help to design what a basic educational day can be like. Make it fun for you and for them. Remember the goal is always for the entire family unit to thrive. 

A family garden. This is my first suggestion to all families looking to bond and educate. Gardening may be one flower or an altar that everyone takes care of, or a rock garden, or anything you wish to cultivate. You can work with sand, earth, sea shells, stones, flowers, growing foods, herbs, fruits. Make it as simple or complex as you choose. The main idea is to learn how to create a space of beauty and serenity together. This becomes a place where we teach the simplicity of honoring the elements and design of nature. Be as creative as possible. If you are unable to be outdoors for some reason or can not find materials for the space just yet. How about creating an “art garden” where everyone collages or paints the ideas of a family garden. Is there a wall that can become this? Outdoors is always the best though, and now that Spring is here we will begin ourselves thinking of the best ideas to plant to feed and sustain our family, we spent most of Winter sitting with the children with garden books, reading about what plants will grow best in our region, and designing our own ideas of garden beds. This became natural lessons of reading, writing, and art drawing activities . We also began counting seeds and use seeds as a way of teaching math..  

Teamwork! Working together becomes the greatest gift of homeschooling! The family is a turning wheel. We work as a unit and not divided. Outsides systems that clash with beliefs can often challenge us to remain whole and keep the wheel turning. Grown ups must be willing to master themselves all the while too as all this unschooling and homeschooling occur. Be gentle with yourselves and honor the shifts and changes. The bridges made and falling apart of what doesn’t serve to reveal the beauty of finding your own solutions is part of homeschool evolution. We are honoring that we are in this together to cultivate the best. We acknowledge that we are  the prime example unfolding to our children’s perception. Our construction of family and learning are “the world” to them as we prepare them to blossom into this world.