a few things I love about life learning…
No schedules…
I love not having a schedule… I love that the boys can have their own rythms and be either early or late sleepers/risers depending on their own biological rhythms… I love not having to get up in the morning at a set time and having to get all the kids ready to bring one to school… I love eating when we are hungry instead of because it is just “time to eat” and doing whatever we want whenever we want…I also love that when we do activities we can do it in the week when things are often cheaper and a lot less busy…
Less stress…
Not having schedules and deadlines, homework or pressure to perform among many other things makes our lives a lot less stressful… there is no expectation to know things because they “have to know them” and then know failure if they are not ready… nor are they held back from learning things because “they are not at that level yet”…
we live… we learn… we play and we take everyday as it comes..
“Socialization”
Not having kids in school means that they are not coming home with bad habits picked up from other kids… they are not in eternal competition with other kids wanting to have more or better stuff… There is less peer pressure… and again less pressure to perform… also… age is not a seen as a barrier… friendships can be sparked with younger kids or older kids and even adults…
In the end they will know more…
I trully believe that in the end my children, and those able to learn at their own pace will know a lot more than most public school kids… and I am saying this because having gone through the public system myself and talking to others over the last years… and as recently as a few days ago, the trend is to get the best test scores and “get things over with” only to be able to forget it the next day because often you will never see the material again… I learned a lot more when I persued my own interests then when I was in class… and I believe that in the end my kids will do the same…