Lesa

About chores... here's our story:

I stopped *making* our DD do chores... it took my DH a bit longer to quit...
I really took the advice of the seasoned unschoolers and quit asking (well,
I may have asked but NO became a valid answer to my request). I actually
started helping her more with things she wanted done... I stopped making it
all about me.

We've been in unschooling for about a year now and lately this DD of ours
that at first didn't want to lift a finger to help us after we told her she
didn't have chores anymore and that she could say NO... well, she's become
the cleaning and purging queen... she actually puts me and DH to shame (we
don't really like housework anyway... we do what's necessary to not live in
filth).

The trust and freedom in unschooling has really changed our lives and it can
and will change yours but you have to let go of the controls.

Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net

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Vickisue Gray

That is such a great story! I'm going to forward it to my DH as he believes in consequences for not doing "chores".

Lesa <lesajm@...> wrote: About chores... here's our story:

I stopped *making* our DD do chores... it took my DH a bit longer to quit...
I really took the advice of the seasoned unschoolers and quit asking (well,
I may have asked but NO became a valid answer to my request). I actually
started helping her more with things she wanted done... I stopped making it
all about me.

We've been in unschooling for about a year now and lately this DD of ours
that at first didn't want to lift a finger to help us after we told her she
didn't have chores anymore and that she could say NO... well, she's become
the cleaning and purging queen... she actually puts me and DH to shame (we
don't really like housework anyway... we do what's necessary to not live in
filth).

The trust and freedom in unschooling has really changed our lives and it can
and will change yours but you have to let go of the controls.

Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net

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