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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/span> wished I hadn’t shown up that day. But God knew better.<\/p>\n

The late summer sun spun rainbows through the window of my minivan, as I sat in the parking lot of a church–journal and pen in hand. I had just attended my second homeschooling conference, and was completely freaked out.<\/p>\n

Without knowing it, I had registered for a conference on unschooling<\/a><\/strong>–a term I had never heard before that day.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to hear it again.<\/p>\n

What do you mean, children don’t need to be taught? How will they learn otherwise?<\/p>\n

So before heading home, I took deep breaths and tried to make sense of this new information. Tried to rationalize it away with ink and words on paper.<\/p>\n

If only I could go back and tell myself what I know now.<\/strong>
\n<\/p>\n

Baby Step #1: Considering Homeschooling<\/h3>\n

My journey to homeschooling didn’t begin with a search for an educational<\/a> philosophy<\/a>. I didn’t even know there was<\/em> more than one educational philosophy!<\/p>\n

I just assumed that homeschooling meant doing “school” at home<\/strong> – worksheets, lessons, tests, recess, and so on. It didn’t sound that appealing, to be honest. I felt like I’d already served my time in school, and didn’t really want to be sentenced to another term without parole, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

But something seemed unnatural about sending my kids away for seven hours each day. They still seemed so…little. Surely, as their mama, I knew what was best for them. Or did I?<\/p>\n

I felt I owed it to them to research all<\/em> the school options open to us before sending them on the yellow bus that stops a few doors down. That meant checking out homeschooling, too.<\/p>\n

So I read books, talked to homeschooling friends, and spent time online. One day I discovered a radical lady whose educational thoughts began to shape my own.<\/p>\n

Baby Step #2: Charlotte Mason<\/h3>\n

When I first found out about her, Charlotte Mason’s<\/a> insights on learning seemed so out of the box.<\/p>\n

Young kids need short lessons, exposure to a wide variety of subjects, plenty of time in nature, living books, and art and music study?<\/strong> Now this sounded more like the education I would have enjoyed as a kid.<\/p>\n

I studied books like A Charlotte Mason Companion<\/a><\/em> and When Children Love to Learn<\/a><\/em>. Being the Type A parent I was, I planned out decades of ideas for future curriculum (My kids were still in preschool by the way!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Kevin Hutchinson<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Baby Step #3: Leadership Education<\/h3>\n

Over time, however, I noticed just how much my kids were learning through play and read-alouds. I began to wonder, especially after that nutty conference, if maybe these unschooling<\/a> folks were on to something?<\/p>\n

But no, no, no. I wasn’t that confident…or crazy.<\/p>\n

Then one night, I heard on a forum about a philosophy called Thomas Jefferson Education (also known as Leadership Education<\/a>). Reading the description<\/a> felt like coming home.<\/p>\n

It was less structured than Charlotte Mason, but more structured than unschooling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The phases of learning<\/a> were exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

Baby Step #4: Interest-Led Learning<\/h3>\n

For a while, that is. Then one day the magic of the blogosphere led me to Jena<\/a>\u00a0(so many of you love her words like I do!).<\/p>\n

Her children were almost grown, she was a certified teacher, and she had chosen interest-led learning for her kids (basically a fancy word for, yes, unschooling)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By this time I had figured out that homeschool did not have to look anything like “school” at home.<\/strong> It was a lifestyle, and each baby step took me further and further away from the traditional stereotype I had started with.<\/p>\n

Each baby step made me happier and more confident in my homeschooling decision.<\/p>\n

Baby Step #5: Discovering Us<\/h3>\n

Every time I found a new, intriguing educational philosophy, it helped me devise my own.<\/p>\n

Few people fit within the confines of one singular type of learning. Through homeschooling, we piece together what we find and love, and create something new.<\/strong> We merge and blend to discover exactly what works for us.<\/p>\n

This is a process that we get to be a part of over our entire career in home education. Just like in other parts of life, we find what we need at the exact time when we need it.<\/p>\n

If we live with eyes open, that is.<\/p>\n

I wish I could go back to my minivan in summer 2008 – wish I could whisper something in the ear of that unsettled Jamie with pen in hand.<\/p>\n

“Jamie,” I would tell her. “Everything’s gonna be okay.”<\/p>\n

“So lighten up.”<\/p>\n

Have you seen your philosophy of education evolve over time? What does it look like in your home today?<\/em><\/p>\n

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