kay alina

How did y'all find UnschoolingBasics? Were you referred here from another
list? A friend? A website? Surfing?

*****Referred from another list. I think it might have been Always
Learning.

Are you coming to unschooling from attachment parenting----like Robyn and
Rue and Deb? Or are you coming into it from a schooling background, like me
and
Pam and Ren?

*************comiing from attachment parenting but I did have Alex in a
preschool Tues. Thurs. mornings at the insistence of his father. It took
one year for dad to change his mind and become 100% supportive of fulltime
unschooling. I do still struggle with a total no limits approach at home
though. I am not ready for that yet.

Are you looking at unschooling as a means of "education" only? Or do you
find it emcompassing your lives? Do you want to limit it to educational
things?
Or do you want it as a lifestyle?

***********Good question. Still iffy about it encompasing entire life. I
believe in boundaries in regard to a messy house. Food is something I offer
and try to focus on healthy choices but if he wants cookies after toast
that's fine with me. Sleep is something that we do together. Regardless of
whether he sleeps with dad or not he usually falls asleep around 9:30 or
10:100 and wakes up around 9:00. I felt very guilty forcing him to wake up
to attend school last year and do not want to go through that again. I am
coercive at times. Yesterday, in 94 degree weather, I asked him to come to
the shady area on the blanket, have some water and cool down. So I do
interfere at times and set limits for his health so he does not get over
heated but he is four and that is where I am with it at the moment. I guess
I am in a still learning along the way mode and unsure because the
definitions still seem sort of vague to me.


We want you to feel comfortable enough to ask anything, but at the same
time, to be accepting of all the answers you get. Each answer may not fit
your
particular situation, but there might be something there for the *next*
reader----so it's just as valuable, just not necessarily to *you*.

***Thanks.

So, to those of you clinging on to the edge of the pool, we're here in the
middle yelling. "The water's FINE!" We're fairly trustworthy. I promise!
<g>

**** I do hesitate sometime's because I have an underlying fear if I
disagree or share my life situation I am going to be screamed at and told to
go away and that I am not a true unschooler. Sink or swim I am jumping in.

Kay