Living Joyfully with Unschooling Box Set by Pam Laricchia

Author:Pam Laricchia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unschooling
Publisher: Pam Laricchia
Published: 2015-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

But What If a Child’s Curiosity Isn’t Constantly Stifled?

Humans are driven to explore their environment and if adults aren’t constantly trying to dampen or redirect their enthusiasm, that curiosity can drive their learning over a lifetime. In an unschooling family, it’s that curiosity that drives learning instead of a curriculum. But what does life with inquisitive children look like?

It often looks busy, even on days when you don’t leave the house, or even the family room!

It can look like large cardboard boxes lined up, enough for everyone, with the child up front wearing a train conductor’s cap as they travel from imaginary place to imaginary place, you lifting the littlest one in and out, in and out. A tower of blocks stands in the corner as a destination, a pile of stuffed animals tag along as traveling companions, and the couch is an island to keep us dry each time it floods.

It can look like a huge Lego town, days or weeks spent building a contemporary community with stores and parks and homes and citizens, or a futuristic base with a control room and sleeping quarters and spaceships and aliens, or a medieval castle with an armory and a mill and dragons and townsfolk.

It can look like one child concentrating hard on playing a video game, while you read the guide for tips and tricks in between playing a board game with the others, everyone taking a moment to cheer when a boss is beat, or someone rolls a six or lands at the bottom of the longest ladder.

It can look like a puppet show put on from behind the couch, full of dialogue and sound effects and giggles, with you recording it to watch immediately after; and as you end up watching the other videos on the memory card an impromptu dance party breaks out.

It can look like a weekday afternoon at the park, winding the tire swing up countless times, with its passengers laughing maniacally as you release it, eventually their boundless energy spurring them to explore the play structure and escape down the tunnel slide.

It can look like each child in their room, one reading and writing on an online forum, one setting up props for a photo shoot, and one playing a computer game. Each wandering out once in a while to chat and grab a snack, you calling down the hallway to ask if anyone would like a cup of the tea you’re brewing.

In each of those little vignettes, can you envision what is happening beneath the surface? The learning is rampant. Because the child is following their own curiosity, they dive into their interests as deeply as they want—maybe the Lego town lasts a day, or a week, or a month; maybe they take 100 photos, or they play with perspective and take 200 more, or they rearrange the set and take another 300. Because their time is their own, they let their questions roam as far and wide as their inquisitiveness takes them—maybe

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