Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Here’s what you should know right up front: we have six kids, I work from home (I’m a writer, my first book-in-bookstores comes out later this year), my husband Dane works not-from-home, and we unschool. Our oldest daughter is away at college this year, so that …
Melissa’s unschool day in the life (with a 5-, 8-, 11-, 12- and 15-year old)Read More
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins ‘Tis the season for three things: hot tea, dark chocolate, and reading all the books we can handle. (Okay, okay, it might ALSO be the season for other things—giving thanks and making merry and wearing scarves, for example. But let’s focus on the books for a …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins August may be a good school planning month (though I’ll tell you secretly, I like January better), but what I’m planning right now is dorm supplies and dining hall meal plans and one million important conversations, because in a few VERY SHORT WEEKS, my oldest …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Creating a homeschool lifestyle that works for our family involves a lot of things I didn’t expect at first. For example? One of the most important things for keeping our days running smoothly is not lesson planning. It’s not even meal planning, though that would …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins T his fall, my youngest daughter will be kindergarten-aged and my oldest daughter will be a freshman in college. When I say “freshman in college” I mean “that thing where she moves away to live in a dorm and does not come home until maybe Thanksgiving.” What on …
