Discovering Mama Havens

Well here we go, first post! Follow along if you are interested in discovering the Havens family as we discover ourselves and the world around us. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Christina Havens and I am the mother of 3 beautiful children. This may not be the best time to start this blog since we have to be moved in oh, 5 days and so far I only have my kitchen packed. One of my main motivators in writing this blog is to keep a record of my kids learning progress since we are choosing to home-school. I am particularly resonating with life-learning, interest based, un-schooling type of teachings. I really disliked school as a child. I actually have no memory of enjoying any part of school. Oh wait, yes there was a time! That time was when I was 16 and chose to home-school myself. I had two or three jobs at the time, paid for it my self and was super excited to finally learn something. I flew through the textbooks the correspondence school sent to me. I did all the work eagerly and felt so in line with what I chose to do. I learned more during that time than my last 3 years of school. I LOVED it! Then I got to my MATH book, yuk! I was horrible at math and still suck pretty bad I might add (no pun intended). I needed some guidance and had none. I had no one I could really go to for help. Sooo yeah, that was the end to that. Eventually I got my GED and I am not ashamed to say it. Graduating from the high school I attended would have really been no achievement in terms of learning. In fact, I probably learned more just taking the GED test. Okay, I'm just joking about that last part BUT I know I learned a heck of a lot NOT being in school. A lot of valuable life learning went on. My experience is to some degree influencing my home-schooling decision for my children, but not much probably about about 10%. I have many more valuable reasons but I wont get too much into that on this post otherwise my blog post will turn into a book and then I would have to charge you ;) So if you want to know more I recommend clicking the follow button.

Just for fun here is a picture of me when I was 16 years old!