Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 255
[email protected]
In a message dated 2/26/2002 12:18:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
network of unschooled teens - especially in the older teens age range. And I
see a LOT of them struggling with a lot or a bit of anxiety and some with
depression. I've also watched a number of them sort of coming to terms with
really making decisions about their futures - really deciding to go to
college or get full-time work or whatever. And others just drift or jump <G>
smoothly into their next step, too. But I just don't think we should mislead
anybody into thinking that unschooling is insurance against difficult
adolescence - including anxiety or depression.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I can only imagine that some of these kids would have had
just as hard a time and probably even MUCH worse, if they'd been in school.
And - they are truly such special kids -- my daughter and I were talking
about my niece, who is really nice and a great kid who is in high school. I
was saying that I'd been asking her about a trip she took with her school, to
Catalina Island. Her responses were all about how "they let us do this" and
"they let us do that." It was disconcerting -- my conversations with
unschooled kids do NOT include that "they let us" kind of stuff at all. My
niece, as bright and sweet as she is, does not even remotely have the sense
of self that any unschooled kid I know has. Their conversations are filled
with: "I decided to do this" and "I'm planning to do that."
-pam
--pam
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[email protected] writes:
> << They have MUCH bigger dreams andI wasn't really thinking only of my own kids, though. We have a pretty large
> ambitions than most schooled kids. They don't think, for example, of just
> going to college and getting a job. NOT FOR THEM!!!! >>
>
> I see that in Pam's two older kids, but I don't see it in mine. I think
> Kirby would be happy to be put on full time at the gaming shop, take a few
> classes at the university, and share an apartment with other gaming geeks.
> I
> also think he might end up doing better than that, but I'm pretty happy
> with
> the idea that it seems that would make him feel fulfilled.
network of unschooled teens - especially in the older teens age range. And I
see a LOT of them struggling with a lot or a bit of anxiety and some with
depression. I've also watched a number of them sort of coming to terms with
really making decisions about their futures - really deciding to go to
college or get full-time work or whatever. And others just drift or jump <G>
smoothly into their next step, too. But I just don't think we should mislead
anybody into thinking that unschooling is insurance against difficult
adolescence - including anxiety or depression.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I can only imagine that some of these kids would have had
just as hard a time and probably even MUCH worse, if they'd been in school.
And - they are truly such special kids -- my daughter and I were talking
about my niece, who is really nice and a great kid who is in high school. I
was saying that I'd been asking her about a trip she took with her school, to
Catalina Island. Her responses were all about how "they let us do this" and
"they let us do that." It was disconcerting -- my conversations with
unschooled kids do NOT include that "they let us" kind of stuff at all. My
niece, as bright and sweet as she is, does not even remotely have the sense
of self that any unschooled kid I know has. Their conversations are filled
with: "I decided to do this" and "I'm planning to do that."
-pam
--pam
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