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Over the next couple of months, I joined a few online support groups. I asked all the questions I could think of, and really put myself (or rather ourselves) out there, for people to get to know us. It didn't take me long to hear God's small voice saying, "You're home, this is where you belong."

This first year of un-schooling, we have been going through the de-schooling process. We have been un-learning all those institutional ideas that some-how crept into our minds. Things like: school time, grades, subject matter, advancement tests, grade levels, and such. Instead we have been focusing on things like: seeing the relationships between things, experiencing math in our every-day lives, creativity, communication (written and verbal), responsibility (personal and community), and reading for enjoyment as well as expanding knowledge, teamwork, and things of that matter.

Our "unschooling" lives aren't that much different than they were before. I suppose the biggest difference is me spending time; just being with my kids, talking to them, listening to them, answering and asking their questions, playing with them, and just plain enjoying them. Before, our time was spent with me disciplining, scolding, lecturing, and enforcing them to do their assignments. Not to mention their complaining, and trying to get out of things. Our home is much more peaceful now, and I am more open to see all the growth my children experience every day.

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