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Park Day in Douglas

8/04/2023

Making Strides in Community Building We kicked off our park days with an event in Douglas MA, hosted by Picnic at the Park, a non-profit organization. It was an uplifting day to spend time as a family at a park enjoying a friendly chat and some sensory activities. Since we embrace the gentle parenting philosophy and focus on child-led activities, a lot of times we go the playground for social opportunities only to wander off into the field or a trail. Playground can get noisy, that I don’t mind, but my kiddo does. At least, sometimes. Other times, he’s happy to parallel play or do some observational play. We’re also not part of any specific community, so striving to create a sense of community for him has been challenging, especially because he’s a covid- kid, a child who spent a portion of his early childhood in isolation and lockdown, as we all did. Some research into community building, because I like to google stuff, showed that building a community requires a dedicated focus...

New Chapter of Our Journey

7/04/2023

We've taken a year long break to grow our family, learn new skills, and explore new terrain. Since moving across the street from our home state to a new state, we've stayed fairy local to Blackstone Valley. We've found tiny trails, built garden beds, gotten into poison ivy, build our own furniture, enjoyed a our wood burning stove, and search for professional support for speech development. Our homeschooling became more established as we found our flow in going to library events, playgrounds, bike paths, meet ups, unstructured play, and interest based activities. My favorite part is to see how many crafts we can engineer given a new interest. There was the phase of the airplanes, trains, rockets, dinosaurs, bugs, butterflies and moths, plants and flowers, sandbox and mud. Nature has always been there for our wild learning. We are now ready for our new chapter in growing within a community.

Tiny Hike Grassroots Co-op

7/04/2023

Inspired by the blossoming curiosity of children, we've decided to start a homeschooling co-op focusing on preschool-aged kids. We believe in the idea of cooperative learning. We also would like to support the broader k-12 homeschooling community by offering skill share workshops both virtually and in-person. In our Co-op, we would like to take turns leading various activities or learning sessions, sharing our unique talents, and creating a nurturing environment for our kids of all ages. We would like to jointly and/or independently plan hiking trails, playdates, backyard explorations, science and/or sport activities, to name a few out of the many options for social and learning opportunities. The Co-op would also provide parents with an opportunity to share knowledge, strategies, resources, and experiences about homeschooling. The pleasure of having shared accomplishments and challenges is something that we believe better equips us on the educating journey. As a new co-op ...