Ethical Living Skills – “Edu caring”

This year our big girl starts her second year of home / unschooling. Because there is no set school calendar for us, we can take holidays and travel when we choose. This also means, we are able to “learn” whenever it suits us also. This means, whenever we feel like it or when our little girl wants to know something…which is all the time!

Yesterday we upcycled an old bath tub of ours using our compost heap and made a “Herbal Bath”.

While the girls played in the back yard and helped fetch buckets and rakes, I gathered and layered old rose bush and grass clippings, layering them with our compost heap in the tub. Though we started our food forest growing when our first child was a baby 6 years ago, we are still learning all the time! We’ve moved a couple of times and been in our current home 2 years.

Here, we have changed a lot over the couple of seasonal cycles. Using our compost has been one of the most fulfilling feelings in waste reduction (one of our passions). While my 6 year old asked to write another story this morning, I thought it may be an opportunity for me to also note down a little story of my own here on the blog.

I figured his could be a great little Permaculture type journal serving to be a home “school” journal at the same time. See, my inspiration for sharing today was to serve as a reminder of the reason behind my drive to home educate. Our value on ethical choices and living skills is one of our leading attractions to “teaching” our own.

There’s no argument that being immersed in something is the ultimate way to learn and well… that’s just what this is. Our children have the opportunity of being immersed in sustainable, ethical, waste wise living by being at home. And by being so, they are able to learn these skills and be propelled towards a life where attaining self and community sufficiency is much more natural as a result.

I will finish here and leave you with gratitude for reading my thoughts. I also hope to offer updates in the coming months over our 2nd official homeschooling year…so you can follow along and see how our food growing comes along.