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It’s All Learning

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“The more learning is like play, the more absorbing it will be—unless the student has been so corrupted by institutional education that only dull serious work is equated with learning.” (William Reinsmith)

See the images of my kids when they were young? It’s all learning.

What were they learning?

  • Baking, reading and following instructions, dexterity, patience, mathematical concepts for measurement & temperature, letting dough rise, joy at eating!
  • The value of being outdoors; immersion in the season; play.
  • Shopping for ingredients or meals. A little exposure to nutrition or measurements or prices, following a list, learning categories of food groups.
  • Crafts, creating a tea party for a friend (hosting), applying lessons about Japan, being responsible for a complete activity.
  • Visiting a museum, reading placards, learning about painting and sculpture, being affected by beauty, meeting artists through their art, history.
  • Creating a centerpiece for the season—exploring a natural space, identifying natural items, arranging them artfully, appreciating design and color scheme.
  • Cooperating with friends, competition, reflexes and response times, calculating, dexterity, immersion in a story, gracious winning and losing.

This post is originally from Instagram and @juliebravewriter is my account there so come follow along for more conversations like this one!


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Brave Writer Precept #12: All of Life is an Opportunity for Education

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The twelfth Brave Writer precept is: We affirm that a good enough homeschool is one where our family chooses to see all of life as an opportunity for an education—whether we homeschool to the end, or include traditional schooling in that journey.

It’s time to bring our precept journey to a close! We have twelve in all, and this one is the key to the whole experience of parent-invested education.

We may want a formula, or a plan, or a guarantee that what we choose will lead to high academic achievement and happy, life-long learners. We may think that the choices we make are so critical that if we miss the mark or experiment, we will fail.

A Shared Life of Learning

What we all know about homeschooling is this: it is merely a shared life of learning. Learning includes (by definition):

  • discovery of what works and doesn’t,
  • understanding more over time,
  • gaining skills with practice.

If that’s true of math and writing, it’s also true of providing an education. We learn by doing and in doing, we discover what is best for each child in our family. Sometimes that journey includes going to traditional schools as part of the education process.

“You’re doing it right if you stay connected, and every now and then pause in awe. Look! Those are my amazing human beings!” –The Brave Learner


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Brave Writer Precept #11: Personally Meaningful Achievements

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The eleventh Brave Writer precept is: Our children experience their achievements as personally meaningful.

The most important part of a child’s education is how well they value it. When a child values what they’re learning, they retain the lesson.

We can teach our kids to master the skills to pass tests, to get good grades, and to be excellent students. That’s not the same as valuing what you’re learning.

Tune In

The way education becomes meaningful to a child is for that child to feel a personal connection to what they’re learning. In Brave Writer, when we teach writing and critical thinking and history and math, we focus on how a child can make a connection that is meaningful to that child.

When you choose to be a Home Educator, that opportunity lays before you as a big blank canvas. No one else tells you what to put into your child’s academic life. If you want the results of school, reproduce school. If you want a personally meaningful education, tune in to your child and to learning.


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Brave Writer Precept #10: We Will Come to Know Ourselves

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The tenth Brave Writer precept is: We will come to know ourselves better as educators, parents, and awesome adults!

When you embark on homeschooling, you develop as a person! It’s one of the most delightful side effects of this lifestyle.

My confidence grew as I learned how:

  • to parent,
  • to educate,
  • and to become an awesome adult—living out the privilege of being old enough to do all the things I dreamed of as a child.

What’s one gift you have received by homeschooling or parenting? What’s an aspiration you’ve fulfilled as an awesome adult?


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Brave Writer Precept #9: Our Allegiance is to What’s Right for Our Family

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The ninth Brave Writer precept is: Our allegiance is to what’s right for our family, not any one homeschool method, community, or model.

Today’s precept fits PERFECTLY with a Tea with Julie podcast I did called Finding a Homeschool Philosophy that Works for You. In that brief episode I remind home educators that their primary loyalty is always to their family—not someone else’s standards.

This may surprise you if you come out of the school system where you are used to being measured by teachers, transcripts, or the expectations of others.

A home education is specifically tailored to your family.

You have the power to:

  • make choices,
  • experiment and take risks,
  • be sure that the learning is meeting the needs of your specific children.

I invite you to pop in your headphones and listen to my little pep talk. It’s 7 minutes long and is available on the Brave Writer blog (includes show notes), Spotify, Apple podcasts, or any podcasting platform.


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