Ren Allen

Nadine, Your assumption that people would be either mean or
unhelpful are totally insulting to many list members. Please do some
self examination or just drop it. Because at this point, you seem
unwilling to accept responsibility for your poorly worded post.
I have tried to point out gently, and clearly, exactly why it is
insulting. You don't want to get it. Ok, let's move on.

" I know none of us will ever have to see one another
face to face and in that there is a security, one in which we can say
*anything* we want to each other,"

No. None of us would have to. But many of us have, so there is
no "security" in saying anything we want to...most of us say what we
feel is true. We try to say it as clearly and truthfully as
possible.
That's it.
I have met Sandra and Kelly and Pam and AnneO and Joyce and Elissa
and Robyn and Rue and Karin and Shannon and many other fabulous
people from this list and other lists. I have stayed in other
unschoolers homes, I have talked to them on the phone, I have mailed
them things and had them stay in my home. I'm hosting an unschoolers
beach party and will meet many more of them...many from this list.
I try really hard to say exactly what I mean, and I am not afraid to
meet people I have questioned on the internet.

I am happy to continue answering questions about unschooling. I am
not happy to hear more whining about the list, or Sandra (who has
changed many, many lives for the better) or how we are all so mean
for telling the truth.

So please, ask your unschooling questions. Take what is useful,
don't whine about advice you can't use. Self examine when
something "ouches" but don't stress about it. It is what it is.

Ren