I've had a note in my desk for years that says "Find that battleaxe thing." Today I found it. What "it" is is a post from 1998, on a forum that doesn't exist,...
***A battleaxe is a cranky old woman and a pike is a fish.*** And the old woman and the fish were named after the weapons. <g> I've never caught a pike but I...
***Deb Lewis Deb Lewis*** Apparently, we are two. <g> ***people gradually add to the details of their knowledge every day that they live.*** Not Middle ages...
This week is the first week on unschooling. All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook. Well, he did go to the fitness center today &...
-=-The lessons go alright, but on the times he's home, he's basically doing nothing.-=- Lessons aren't unschooling. -=- All my son wanted to do was to play...
... Undoubtedly he's deschooling. If those two were limited in the past, either by you or by time constraints, before he can let go he needs to fill up on them...
Please disregard this and the previous email sent from this email address entitled - hey~ Do NOT go to this website I don't know what it is or endorse it in...
I wont say I am completely THERE yet but some of the things that my boys 10 and 12 have shown an interest in include.... Making fossils, Freezing insects,...
-=-We are also making an effort to find somewhere interesting to go each week that will broaden their education and interests.-=- This is a good idea. -=-I...
-=- It robs them of the opportunity to do those things out of joy and desire. It destroys their chance of having learned them on their own.=- I meant to...
Hello, my name is Jeska. My husband and I have been unschooling our two daughters, ages 6 and 8 since they were born, I guess you could say. :) We live in...
-=-I asked her one day if she wanted to learn how to read, she said "no, I want to be one of those adults that can't read, what are they called again?", I said...
... Welcome! ... Too funny! I think what you are supposed to do with that is just enjoy the wit of your very clever daughter! She found an entertaining way to...
Gaming magazines were big with my kids. Whatever your daughter's interests are, maybe find her websites or something with lots of video or pictures, but there...
... plays done with several characters) is easy to find now, on the internet. If you can see YouTube (I think you should be able to) there's a whole Sesame...
Living in Japan you must be exposed to a very different reading system. It helped me a lot to think about the differences in reading in Japan and degrees of...
<<<<<It might start not with Dick and Jane >>>>> Yes this is key. I have noticed that unschooling kids seem to learn to read material that corresponds to their...
... The message from school that children must be taught to read -- and the earlier the better -- is accepted without question. People assume educators...
-=- They only know what children are like when they're forced to learn.-=- And "forced to learn" isn't what actually happens there, either. When teachers of...
In a message dated 10/26/2009 5:31:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dezigna@... writes: <<<Also I expect to continue to read aloud to Jayn even after she...
I'd rephrase that to "Hopefully it won't start with Dick and Jane" ;-) Although, I suppose there might be some children that would find books like that worth...
I wish I could make a career out of it (audio books).================ I know someone who is paid to record written word to audio for vision-impaired people....
I remember my experiences reading as well growing up- and this post struck a cord with me in relation to todays time. It was pretty similiar in my house,...
I need advice- my 4 year old is to begin unschooling (well I feel like she has been all along just to continue it now that she is "school-age") and friends of...
I have had this very same issue with my mom - she is very unsupportive of unschooling, has told me I am damaging the kids, shakes her head when it gets brought...
-=- anyone heard of borderline personality disorder? It was a nightmare to grow up with). So, for the moment, ...-=- It seems it's still nightmarish. Can you...
thanks to the both of you for your support- I guess the thing that bothers me the most is this is exactly why I don't want them in public school- Children...
-=- I'm disheartened because I have a feeling I'm going to be drifting away from some friends that we have had for years just because I'm choosing something...
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