Spending Time

How we choose to spend our time is vital in Unschooling. Working out and watching for what really makes each of the children tick, what sparks their interest, what they enjoy doing, allows us to create more time and experiences that give them the opportunity to do more of that thing.

Today we chose to spend our day with our friends. Actually, they had stayed the night again after to coming to play yesterday afternoon. They got together the escapist game. The three boys were the guards and the girls were the prisoners. Bean, 9, made a list for each job the prisoners had to do and a behaviour chart with emojis on it. The second time they played they swapped roles. Bean, Pumpkin, 8, and S, 8, had the lego out. M, 10, joined them to watch Star Wars. Bean got out his stone collection and washed them with E, 5. They then played piano together. There was a lot of piano playing from all of them after this, taking in turns.

Pumpkin watched star wars and played roblox and did lego all with S. In the evening he played parkour with Plum in the living room and made an obstacle course all whilst watching Beethoven. He did skipping with Bean, they had to try and beat each others record. They both got to 100 before they stopped. They then did push ups together and we had a conversation about being strong and healthy. After this he played a pirate board game with Plum and then watched DanTDM before bed.

M played polly pocket and dolls house with Plum, 5. Mostly Plum spent the day playing with E on their tablets trying out the games from each others collection. I then downloaded a few onto Plum's tablet. We had lots of stories before bed and she slept on the floor in her bean bag in her bedroom.

Pippin, 2, watched Peppa Pig and played with the Peppa Pig toys, she cut cake and cooked breakfast and lunch with me, we drew pictures and she played with the others.

Most children spend there days with children in the same age bracket as them, their peers. This group of children doesn't include any who would be in the same school year group. Seven children ranging from 2-11 years all playing together or in pairs or groups, sharing interests and passions and friendship and getting along perfectly well, just the way life should be.