Ulrike Haupt

Dear friends

Since I only joined this list a couple of days ago, I don't really have the
hang of all the concerns of the list yet. From your many posts though I do
get a lot of valuable input already. Most of it is very, very reassuring to
me.

What I find absolutely fascinating is that some of you are talking about
homeschooling / unschooling for kids the age of under five or six years of
age. Ok, I take this back. Alexander grew up in great freedom and when he
was about five, half a year before he was due to start ordinary public
school I managed to get him into a 'kindergarten' for some social
interaction. He hated it and I DID NOT CATCH IT then. My mistake. :) So it
took us another three years of bs to come to the first decision of
'homeschooling' without a fixed curriculum and after a while another 7
months of trying another type of school to unschool for good. For
appearances sake I bought a couple of books of his 'current standard' but I
have lots and lots of other books on all types of subjects as well as
internet so on the account of 'availability of knowledge' I can't be caught
out. (This is about me, not Alexander :))

Well, within a very short time of 'free flowing' Alexander lost ALL
anti-school symptoms. Hurrah!
He basically follows his bliss (as I do too! :)) and has his own timing and
schedule (180 degrees from us - sleeping days and waking nights LOL) I love
watching his endeavours. His 'days' are filled with action! Computer= games,
designs, music, TV, recording and playbacks of his favourite series (Bey
Blades), designing games - whatever is the current favour - Bey Blades,
designing things (bey blades from Legos) or games, building tree houses,
flying kites, creating music on the keyboard, reading (comics and other
stuff), angling at the nearby dam, designing and building the 50th odd wire
car, design a game on the computer, starting a window garden, watching the
cat getting babies, calling his friend about the latest bay blades series,
having an hour long bath, demanding me to design a computer game with bey
blades for him, (This involves much too much writing and basically he wants
me to design it for him! :) btw. I'm not going to write his games for hi, He
can do it for himself.)

At this very moment he is - listening to the latest recorded bye blades
episode and building a bey blade arena - for testing- from a piece of
cardboard. This is to be covered with paper mache - pieces of torn newspaper
with a glue from starch and water - which involves some trial and error
experiences. - something he hates with a vengeance :) To keep an even
temper, when the little one gets all upset because something does not work
out immediately takes a lot of patients with myself -each time. For me the
magic wand is EFT (emotional freedom technique - see www.emofree.com - where
I can switch from anti to pro with the setup statement of "Even though this
is an issue, I deeply and completely accept myself"

btw. with this same statement - Even though this is the issue (name it), I'm
OK, - I could assist a little friend of Alexander a few days ago to get a
better handle on his slightly difficult family life.

All in all I find that the more in harmony I come with myself and my own
desires and wishes and issues the easier it is to live with Alexander and
the more exciting the adventures get that Alexander gets into on his own
road to 'know' what he wants and needs to know.

btw did I mention bey blades? They seem to be wonderful as unschooling
teaching aids for - maths, static's, social interaction, designing
structures, finding fun, crafts techniques, technology, routine, persistence
and patience, marketing (getting dad to buy him something he wants NOW!) and
many other areas of learning general life skills. :)

I do know that he is quite proficient already in many areas that were closed
books for me and my younger brothers at the same age he is now. He knows
lots about plumbing, electricity (AC and DC), he can do soldering and
welding (electric), can handle any power tool in his dad's workshop, builds
wire cars with astonishing accuracy and moveability, draws freehand and with
the computer designs (also 3D), plays music (two hands all fingers on the
keyboard) from remembered tunes and composes his own tunes on the computer
or keyboard, learns to play any game on his own and gets the games cheats
from the internet within 24 hours or less, designs animations on various
platforms all on his own..

Do you get that I am absolutely thrilled with living with Alexander? I think
he is a genius. And not only on one subject but an all-round genius, too. He
has wonderful control over his body (climbs all kinds of trees, and jumps
and runs and moves with grace) and his mind (talks and reads, and thinks and
argues) and is interested in getting his emotions under control, too - asks
how to feel best when the going gets a little bit difficult. :)

OK, why am I really writing this? I want to get into the best feeling
position for myself about this whole situation. Taken in the context of
Alexander and I this is wonderful. But what about the 'governing
institutions? Ah, when I know that I am the only governing institution that
counts in the end, then I'll be a vibrational match to 'no issue on
educational matters.' Ok, this is directly applied science of deliberate
creation and art of allowing from the Abraham-Hicks materials. And this is
what my joining you boiled down to basically.

Thank you for reading/listening.

Blessed be
Ulrike