In this section I thought I'd add some entries from my journals which might help give an idea of natural learning in everyday life ... just little snapshots of moments I found interesting enough to document. I may be pretty easy to please but I see many wonderful moments happening every day! <grin> Some are by day, some are by month. The daily ones give a great picture of how days unfold, but I find the monthly ones give a great feel for how interests develop and flow over time.

If you do decide to journal my one suggestion is to not structure it into "academic" subjects. This will make it hard for you to see all the learning that happens. If you start unschooling and are looking for the moment when they race to get out the math workbooks, you'll definitely be disappointed!

I will put them in reverse chronological order so new ones will appear at the top of the page. Okay, this page grew in leaps and bounds! LOL!! I hope is useful to someone other than just stirring up great memories for me!

Update (March 7, 2005): This page has gotten quite large so I figured it was a great reason to learn about blogs!  I did some research and created my first blog.  I then converted the existing entries on this page into blog entries and will continue to add new glimpses to the blog.  Here's a link to it:

Living Joyfully blog