How to Keep Kids Entertained During Coronavirus Pandemic

Keeping the Kids Entertained No matter how scary and chaotic this Coronavirus outbreak is, it has allowed us to spend more time with our families. If you are a busy bee during the week and you’ve barely had time to help your kids with schoolwork or get them ready for bed, this stay-at-home period can […]
Rise of the Survival Garden: How to Grow Food During COVID Quarantine

One seriously unintended result of Coronavirus and all this Covid-19 drama is the worldwide boom of survival gardening, likely inspired by the Victory Garden boom from World War II. Worldwide people are flocking to their gardens for entertainment and a hedge against possible collapse of the food supply while the world is more or less […]
How Decentralization (income, geography, food source, etc..) Can Create Stability in Your Life

This essay on decentralization originally appeared on Catherine’s facebook page in March of 2017 – her family unit has shifted in soe ways, but the values still remain. The reason we (the Blush Family) decided to #decentralize our lives can be deduced to one word: STABILITY. As you can see, our top down centralized society is […]
Nature Study – Why Children Thrive Learning Outside

Sometimes, when we’re out with our nature club, people stop us ask why we do nature study. Honestly, there are so many reasons that we don’t have time to spout them all off in passing. As fans of the Charlotte Mason educational approach, we love everything about nature study. We love the questioning it ignites, […]
DEET-Free Natural Remedy Against Ticks That Carry Lyme Disease

I recently returned to the New England area, and people here are crazy about avoiding Lyme disease! Some go as far as never going into the woods, or making their children wear shoes AT ALL TIMES. Well…that’s not going to work for this barefoot Momma. How will my youngin’ and I ground ourselves if our feet never […]
3 Steps For ANYONE to Unschool Your Kids (Even if You Think You Can’t)

Do you wish you could homeschool or unschool your kids? Well, good news–you CAN! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase “If I didn’t xyz, I would homeschool”. The majority of these statements come from working or single parent families. What if I told you that you CAN educate your child […]
Falling Fruit, A Global Map to Help You Get Your Wild Forage On

Falling Fruit has been such an amazing resource for our family! I love watching my children explore nature, especially when they have gained the skill set and knowledge to actually CONSUME pieces of the world around us with confidence and true life-learned expertise. Watching my children point out plants to avoid and excitedly shovel fresh […]
Study Reveals the Educational System is Stripping Creative Genius

Are we all born as creative geniuses? In a talk at TEDX Tucson, Dr. George Land reveals shocking results of a creativity test that was initially developed for NASA, but lead to the testing of school children. After proving successful on the NASA engineers, researchers decided to turn the test on children, so they tested […]
Little Dictators & Extreme Stress: The Flip-side of Parents Controlling Children & Deschooling

This article is Part 4 in a series called Does Unschooling Have Natural Limits? Please also find Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 When I first heard of unschooling, I was coming from the typical parenting paradigm, in which the parents are in charge and dole out discipline and punishment. For many of us, this […]
Doing Right by Your Kids Shouldn’t Mean Doing Yourself Wrong

This article is part 2 of a longer series, called Does Unschooling Have Natural Limits? Please subscribe to get future installments. I came to unschooling as a young mother, looking for alternatives to the carrot-and-stick (or recreate-the-schoolroom) approaches I saw with typical homeschooling methods. However, I became excited when I realized that this was about more than just education–it […]
Austin Aquarium Supports Homeschoolers!

The Austin Aquarium offers more than just sea creatures, the whole family can interact with a wide variety of animals such as birds from the rain forest, to lizards and other reptilians from the desert regions. Families can hand feed sharks, stingrays, birds, even tropical animals and for the bravest of kids, dare to feed […]
New Study Shows the Effects of Spanking And How It Legitimizes Police Brutality

A collaboration by Gurus Krystal & Hailey A new study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, looks at five decades of research involving over 160,000 children. Researchers say it is the most complete analysis to date of the outcomes associated with spanking. It shows the more children are spanked, the more likely they are […]