ESTHER JONES

We're a long way from our hill right now. All the way across the Atlantic in Buenos Aires, here to celebrate Mariano's mother's 90th birthday with her. The last time we all came was about eight years ago, so while D (13) and E (11) have some memories of the city, it's C's (6) first trip. We've spent a couple of days doing some quite intense sightseeing, so today we're taking life a little easier, and storing our energy for tonight's big birthday party. It's stating the obviou

Unschooling is sometimes also called child-directed learning or life-learning. Labels can be misleading as they tend to miss out more than they actually say. So, the accent in these particular labels seems to be the 'school/learning' bit. Yet, as anyone who identifies with any of them knows, that really isn't the defining part of the experience. It isn't possible to trust in our children and their natural abilities to learn without extending that trust to all other areas of l