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    Laura Grace Weldon

    Laura Grace WeldonLaura Grace Weldon is the author of Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything, a resource guide for raising life-long learners and also a collection of poetry titled Tending. She writes about learning, sustainability, and hopeful living for GeekMom, Mothering, and her blog. She lives with her family on Bit of Earth Farm where they raise cows, chickens, honeybees, and the occasional wild scheme. She's slow at work on her next book, Subversive Cooking, and recently published Blackbird, a book of poetry.

    Posts by Laura Grace Weldon

      TheHomeSchoolMom Blog: "A Playful Path" - The Most Necessary Book You'll Ever Get for Free

      Playful Path: The Most Necessary Book You'll Ever Get For Free

      TheHomeSchoolMom Blog: Modeling perspective

      Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

      TheHomeSchoolMom Blog: How challenges & mistakes promote learning

      How Challenges & Mistakes Promote Learning

      Goldilocks Effect: Learning when it's just right.

      Goldilocks Effect: Learning When It's "Just Right"

      The power of interest-based pursuits & meaningful work for homeschooled teens.

      The Power of Interest-Based Pursuits and Meaningful Work for Homeschooled Teens

      The Nature Principle

      The Nature Principle

      How to Preserve Motivation in Your Child

      How to Preserve & Empower A Child's Motivation

      The Benefits of Natural Consequences

      How Natural Consequences Benefit Children

      Interest-based groups for learning (& fun)

      Interest-Based Groups For Learning & Fun

      Free To Learn by Peter Gray

      Free To Learn Is A Transformative Book

      Fun, free dictionary games.

      Fun, Free Dictionary Games

      Children's passions are their own

      Benefits of Homeschooling: Pursuing Passions

      Raising Global Citizens

      Raising Global Citizens

      Don't Push Little Ones To Learn

      Don't Push Little Ones To Learn

      Clapping Games Aid Thinking

      Clapping Games Aid Thinking

      TheHomeSchoolMom: Spiders are our teachers

      Spiders Are Our Teachers

      Big Topics Feed Kids' Brains

      Big Topics Feed Kids' Brains

      As Your Kids To Predict the Future

      Ask Your Kids To Predict The Future

      Cures for cabin fever.

      Cures For Cabin Fever

      Subversive Geography - how to promote map use.

      Subversive Geography: Promote Map Use by Kids

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