We have been SO unschooly lately. For two reasons: 1) I'm having a hard time getting back into the groove of things after the holidays, and 2) Mia's got some serious inner turmoil going on right now. (Maybe the two are causally related?!) Anyway, she has been needing a lot of quiet play time, and I've been letting her have it. She doesn't even complain that she's got no one to play with, which is unbelievable. She wants to be alone. So I'm calling it "restorative time" and hoping that she gets out of her funk. The last couple of weeks have not been fun at all. But as it always happens during these "dark" periods, her vocabulary has spiked, her imagination is at full throttle, and she's suddenly building things all over the place. The other night I was finishing up dinner and she came into the kitchen hungry. So I gave her a pack of pipe cleaners and told her to amuse herself, thinking she'd ignore them and proceed with her nightly pantry raid. Three minutes later, she had fashioned a hat for herself. This probably seems so minor and unblogworthy to most parents out there, but my daughter doesn't just do things like this! So I'm thinking that our unschooly approach has done her some good. I tend to think everything worth doing is in a book somewhere. But sometimes we do have original ideas. Oh, and if you're wondering what that stuff she's eating is, it was a first-time recipe that won't be tried again in our house. Mia named it "blub". Blech! I got it out of a book.
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