Wow...wow and wow..
homeschoolcrew6
To say I needed yesterday is an understatment...it was so amazing. We
have been deschooling since July..Before July we were doing school at
home/unit studies and that sort of thing. Very structured , very
organized...it was horriable. It was like we were all going against
the grain of what we truly wanted and needed to do. It sucked and our
house was full to the brim with resentment, anger and fustration from
every angle....my poor hubby coming home from work must have wanted
to stay away....*sigh*...remebering back...everything was such a
fight...going to bed was a fight, eating was a fight...sitting down
was a fight...going out to play was a fight...It was
horriable...anyway I am sure you understand where I am coming
from..and I share this simply becuase I wanted to give you all some
background. We went to unschooling out of pure exhaustion on
everyones parts and it was the best descion we ever made for our
family..though we are def still in the deschool mode...were getting
there...sooooo uesterday was amazing...We woke up together after
cuddling in bed for about 2 hours...we all got our brekkie...The
oldest helped me get everyone together...we sat and ate
together...watched the snow...it was a gorgeous morning out...I
jumped on the net to check my email, Ash(5yo)went to play zelda on
the gamecube, Tyler(8yo) was off doing all sorts of different things
and Heather(3yo) was playing house with the Guinea Pigs. It was
really calm...THEN the fun really begain...my son came down deciding
he wanted a job...He didt want a paper route or anything that other
people do...so he came up with dog walking! He sat at the computer
and made posters , figuring out how to put them together with
pictures and everything, how much to charge (he came up with 5 bucks
an hour), his phone number (which I didnt even know he knew!) and
printed them out...he took them around our condo taping them up...he
was so excited...upon returning home he decided that he had to have
some kind of page that he could write everything down , so he got out
a notebook and wrote down name, date, name of dog, unit you live in,
times....it was amazing to see...I helped him come up with a few more
questions like temperment of the dog, that sort of thing. It was
great! He then sat there thinking, and asked "what happens when I get
to many dogs"..I jsut sort of said, I am not sure..what do you
think...he said..I need empolyees..lol...I walked in on
him "interviewing" three of the neighbourhood kids , one of them
being his sister...It was the cutest thing...It was neat too because
he was telling his "employees" that he was going to get paid 5.00 an
hour so he would give them half which would be 2.50 an hour and if
they only worked for an hour, it would be 1.25! I was blown
away...where did he learn that!! One of the reasons I wanted to
homeschool in the begining was becuase I wanted to know what and how
my children were learning....They dont go to school so where did he
get this stuff? lol..His sister decided that she would do it, IF and
only if she got to keep 4.00! He also decided that he was going to
approach his dad and ask for a loan for his businees, so that he
could buy his own leash! lol...it was amazing. He didnt get any calls
yet, but he is already planning his next business venture. The way
his mind was working, it really made me see that he truly has a
business mind...thats what makes him tick. To make a great day even
better we went out and played in the snow together....shovled our
front walk and driveway, giggled and had a great time. Heather (3yo)
and I came back in and made hot cocoa and she went down to watch some
shows...and I got some houswork done...We ended up having some of the
neighbourhood kids over, and one stayed for dinner. After dinner, the
kids cleaned the table without being asked...my daughter helped with
dishes without being asked, and preceeded to tell me stories about
everything and anything...She is quite the story teller...Back in
june I wouldnt have "let" her help with dishes I would have told her
to go find something on her own to do...*sigh*...so we sat and did
dishes and she told me stories...I listened. It was awesome. After
that was all said and done , the kids sat down and drew pictures
together while I tried to fix our blasted computer (I had to re DL
windows XP a few weeks ago and ever since then we don't have sound. I
know we have an onboard soundcard....HELP..LOL). Tyler then went on
to knitting his wallet he is making. He learnt how to change colours
yesterday amoungst all the other things we were doing. Very cool. Its
neat to see him sitting on the floor cross legged in combat pants
knitting...*smiles*. I gave up on the computer and we decided to play
monoply...Tyler (8yo) was the banker, Ashleigh (5yo) was the property
person and Heather(3yo) was Heather *smiles*...it was amazing...Tyler
was making change like a pro..helping his sisters make it
too...Ashleigh was able to give the right properties to people
ebcuase she organized them by colour and then matched the words on
the card to the words on the board..her doing , not mine. Heather
sorted the money by colour. It was so incrediable...Daddy came home,
the game went away. We spent some time talking together while daddy
ate his supper and tried the candy we made two days ago. He loved
them both..the kids then dissappeared upstairs and Graham and I sat
and talked about the property were looking into buying...when we
looked at the time it was 10pm, Graham had been up since 4 am and was
zonked and so was I. We headed upstairs to see what the kids were
doing...they were all found in Tylers bed cuddled together sound
asleep....*sigh*...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
Amoung all of this we had discussions abotu everything from weather,
friends, farming, animals, colours...sooo many things...amazing.
happy were doing this
P
have been deschooling since July..Before July we were doing school at
home/unit studies and that sort of thing. Very structured , very
organized...it was horriable. It was like we were all going against
the grain of what we truly wanted and needed to do. It sucked and our
house was full to the brim with resentment, anger and fustration from
every angle....my poor hubby coming home from work must have wanted
to stay away....*sigh*...remebering back...everything was such a
fight...going to bed was a fight, eating was a fight...sitting down
was a fight...going out to play was a fight...It was
horriable...anyway I am sure you understand where I am coming
from..and I share this simply becuase I wanted to give you all some
background. We went to unschooling out of pure exhaustion on
everyones parts and it was the best descion we ever made for our
family..though we are def still in the deschool mode...were getting
there...sooooo uesterday was amazing...We woke up together after
cuddling in bed for about 2 hours...we all got our brekkie...The
oldest helped me get everyone together...we sat and ate
together...watched the snow...it was a gorgeous morning out...I
jumped on the net to check my email, Ash(5yo)went to play zelda on
the gamecube, Tyler(8yo) was off doing all sorts of different things
and Heather(3yo) was playing house with the Guinea Pigs. It was
really calm...THEN the fun really begain...my son came down deciding
he wanted a job...He didt want a paper route or anything that other
people do...so he came up with dog walking! He sat at the computer
and made posters , figuring out how to put them together with
pictures and everything, how much to charge (he came up with 5 bucks
an hour), his phone number (which I didnt even know he knew!) and
printed them out...he took them around our condo taping them up...he
was so excited...upon returning home he decided that he had to have
some kind of page that he could write everything down , so he got out
a notebook and wrote down name, date, name of dog, unit you live in,
times....it was amazing to see...I helped him come up with a few more
questions like temperment of the dog, that sort of thing. It was
great! He then sat there thinking, and asked "what happens when I get
to many dogs"..I jsut sort of said, I am not sure..what do you
think...he said..I need empolyees..lol...I walked in on
him "interviewing" three of the neighbourhood kids , one of them
being his sister...It was the cutest thing...It was neat too because
he was telling his "employees" that he was going to get paid 5.00 an
hour so he would give them half which would be 2.50 an hour and if
they only worked for an hour, it would be 1.25! I was blown
away...where did he learn that!! One of the reasons I wanted to
homeschool in the begining was becuase I wanted to know what and how
my children were learning....They dont go to school so where did he
get this stuff? lol..His sister decided that she would do it, IF and
only if she got to keep 4.00! He also decided that he was going to
approach his dad and ask for a loan for his businees, so that he
could buy his own leash! lol...it was amazing. He didnt get any calls
yet, but he is already planning his next business venture. The way
his mind was working, it really made me see that he truly has a
business mind...thats what makes him tick. To make a great day even
better we went out and played in the snow together....shovled our
front walk and driveway, giggled and had a great time. Heather (3yo)
and I came back in and made hot cocoa and she went down to watch some
shows...and I got some houswork done...We ended up having some of the
neighbourhood kids over, and one stayed for dinner. After dinner, the
kids cleaned the table without being asked...my daughter helped with
dishes without being asked, and preceeded to tell me stories about
everything and anything...She is quite the story teller...Back in
june I wouldnt have "let" her help with dishes I would have told her
to go find something on her own to do...*sigh*...so we sat and did
dishes and she told me stories...I listened. It was awesome. After
that was all said and done , the kids sat down and drew pictures
together while I tried to fix our blasted computer (I had to re DL
windows XP a few weeks ago and ever since then we don't have sound. I
know we have an onboard soundcard....HELP..LOL). Tyler then went on
to knitting his wallet he is making. He learnt how to change colours
yesterday amoungst all the other things we were doing. Very cool. Its
neat to see him sitting on the floor cross legged in combat pants
knitting...*smiles*. I gave up on the computer and we decided to play
monoply...Tyler (8yo) was the banker, Ashleigh (5yo) was the property
person and Heather(3yo) was Heather *smiles*...it was amazing...Tyler
was making change like a pro..helping his sisters make it
too...Ashleigh was able to give the right properties to people
ebcuase she organized them by colour and then matched the words on
the card to the words on the board..her doing , not mine. Heather
sorted the money by colour. It was so incrediable...Daddy came home,
the game went away. We spent some time talking together while daddy
ate his supper and tried the candy we made two days ago. He loved
them both..the kids then dissappeared upstairs and Graham and I sat
and talked about the property were looking into buying...when we
looked at the time it was 10pm, Graham had been up since 4 am and was
zonked and so was I. We headed upstairs to see what the kids were
doing...they were all found in Tylers bed cuddled together sound
asleep....*sigh*...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
Amoung all of this we had discussions abotu everything from weather,
friends, farming, animals, colours...sooo many things...amazing.
happy were doing this
P
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-----Original Message-----
From: homeschoolcrew6 homeschoolcrew6@...
...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
-=-=-=-
Welcome to our world! <bwg>
I'm glad you had such a glorious day---AND to see it for what it WAS!
Here's to many more!
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://liveandlearnconference.org
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
From: homeschoolcrew6 homeschoolcrew6@...
...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
-=-=-=-
Welcome to our world! <bwg>
I'm glad you had such a glorious day---AND to see it for what it WAS!
Here's to many more!
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://liveandlearnconference.org
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Lesa McMahon-Lowe
THAT IS SO COOL! :)
THANKS FOR SHARING THAT! :)
Lesa
-------Original Message-------
From: homeschoolcrew6
Date: 12/15/05 20:48:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Wow...wow and wow..
To say I needed yesterday is an understatment...it was so amazing. We
have been deschooling since July..Before July we were doing school at
home/unit studies and that sort of thing. Very structured , very
organized...it was horriable. It was like we were all going against
the grain of what we truly wanted and needed to do. It sucked and our
house was full to the brim with resentment, anger and fustration from
every angle....my poor hubby coming home from work must have wanted
to stay away....*sigh*...remebering back...everything was such a
fight...going to bed was a fight, eating was a fight...sitting down
was a fight...going out to play was a fight...It was
horriable...anyway I am sure you understand where I am coming
from..and I share this simply becuase I wanted to give you all some
background. We went to unschooling out of pure exhaustion on
everyones parts and it was the best descion we ever made for our
family..though we are def still in the deschool mode...were getting
there...sooooo uesterday was amazing...We woke up together after
cuddling in bed for about 2 hours...we all got our brekkie...The
oldest helped me get everyone together...we sat and ate
together...watched the snow...it was a gorgeous morning out...I
jumped on the net to check my email, Ash(5yo)went to play zelda on
the gamecube, Tyler(8yo) was off doing all sorts of different things
and Heather(3yo) was playing house with the Guinea Pigs. It was
really calm...THEN the fun really begain...my son came down deciding
he wanted a job...He didt want a paper route or anything that other
people do...so he came up with dog walking! He sat at the computer
and made posters , figuring out how to put them together with
pictures and everything, how much to charge (he came up with 5 bucks
an hour), his phone number (which I didnt even know he knew!) and
printed them out...he took them around our condo taping them up...he
was so excited...upon returning home he decided that he had to have
some kind of page that he could write everything down , so he got out
a notebook and wrote down name, date, name of dog, unit you live in,
times....it was amazing to see...I helped him come up with a few more
questions like temperment of the dog, that sort of thing. It was
great! He then sat there thinking, and asked "what happens when I get
to many dogs"..I jsut sort of said, I am not sure..what do you
think...he said..I need empolyees..lol...I walked in on
him "interviewing" three of the neighbourhood kids , one of them
being his sister...It was the cutest thing...It was neat too because
he was telling his "employees" that he was going to get paid 5.00 an
hour so he would give them half which would be 2.50 an hour and if
they only worked for an hour, it would be 1.25! I was blown
away...where did he learn that!! One of the reasons I wanted to
homeschool in the begining was becuase I wanted to know what and how
my children were learning....They dont go to school so where did he
get this stuff? lol..His sister decided that she would do it, IF and
only if she got to keep 4.00! He also decided that he was going to
approach his dad and ask for a loan for his businees, so that he
could buy his own leash! lol...it was amazing. He didnt get any calls
yet, but he is already planning his next business venture. The way
his mind was working, it really made me see that he truly has a
business mind...thats what makes him tick. To make a great day even
better we went out and played in the snow together....shovled our
front walk and driveway, giggled and had a great time. Heather (3yo)
and I came back in and made hot cocoa and she went down to watch some
shows...and I got some houswork done...We ended up having some of the
neighbourhood kids over, and one stayed for dinner. After dinner, the
kids cleaned the table without being asked...my daughter helped with
dishes without being asked, and preceeded to tell me stories about
everything and anything...She is quite the story teller...Back in
june I wouldnt have "let" her help with dishes I would have told her
to go find something on her own to do...*sigh*...so we sat and did
dishes and she told me stories...I listened. It was awesome. After
that was all said and done , the kids sat down and drew pictures
together while I tried to fix our blasted computer (I had to re DL
windows XP a few weeks ago and ever since then we don't have sound. I
know we have an onboard soundcard....HELP..LOL). Tyler then went on
to knitting his wallet he is making. He learnt how to change colours
yesterday amoungst all the other things we were doing. Very cool. Its
neat to see him sitting on the floor cross legged in combat pants
knitting...*smiles*. I gave up on the computer and we decided to play
monoply...Tyler (8yo) was the banker, Ashleigh (5yo) was the property
person and Heather(3yo) was Heather *smiles*...it was amazing...Tyler
was making change like a pro..helping his sisters make it
too...Ashleigh was able to give the right properties to people
ebcuase she organized them by colour and then matched the words on
the card to the words on the board..her doing , not mine. Heather
sorted the money by colour. It was so incrediable...Daddy came home,
the game went away. We spent some time talking together while daddy
ate his supper and tried the candy we made two days ago. He loved
them both..the kids then dissappeared upstairs and Graham and I sat
and talked about the property were looking into buying...when we
looked at the time it was 10pm, Graham had been up since 4 am and was
zonked and so was I. We headed upstairs to see what the kids were
doing...they were all found in Tylers bed cuddled together sound
asleep....*sigh*...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
Amoung all of this we had discussions abotu everything from weather,
friends, farming, animals, colours...sooo many things...amazing.
happy were doing this
P
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THANKS FOR SHARING THAT! :)
Lesa
-------Original Message-------
From: homeschoolcrew6
Date: 12/15/05 20:48:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Wow...wow and wow..
To say I needed yesterday is an understatment...it was so amazing. We
have been deschooling since July..Before July we were doing school at
home/unit studies and that sort of thing. Very structured , very
organized...it was horriable. It was like we were all going against
the grain of what we truly wanted and needed to do. It sucked and our
house was full to the brim with resentment, anger and fustration from
every angle....my poor hubby coming home from work must have wanted
to stay away....*sigh*...remebering back...everything was such a
fight...going to bed was a fight, eating was a fight...sitting down
was a fight...going out to play was a fight...It was
horriable...anyway I am sure you understand where I am coming
from..and I share this simply becuase I wanted to give you all some
background. We went to unschooling out of pure exhaustion on
everyones parts and it was the best descion we ever made for our
family..though we are def still in the deschool mode...were getting
there...sooooo uesterday was amazing...We woke up together after
cuddling in bed for about 2 hours...we all got our brekkie...The
oldest helped me get everyone together...we sat and ate
together...watched the snow...it was a gorgeous morning out...I
jumped on the net to check my email, Ash(5yo)went to play zelda on
the gamecube, Tyler(8yo) was off doing all sorts of different things
and Heather(3yo) was playing house with the Guinea Pigs. It was
really calm...THEN the fun really begain...my son came down deciding
he wanted a job...He didt want a paper route or anything that other
people do...so he came up with dog walking! He sat at the computer
and made posters , figuring out how to put them together with
pictures and everything, how much to charge (he came up with 5 bucks
an hour), his phone number (which I didnt even know he knew!) and
printed them out...he took them around our condo taping them up...he
was so excited...upon returning home he decided that he had to have
some kind of page that he could write everything down , so he got out
a notebook and wrote down name, date, name of dog, unit you live in,
times....it was amazing to see...I helped him come up with a few more
questions like temperment of the dog, that sort of thing. It was
great! He then sat there thinking, and asked "what happens when I get
to many dogs"..I jsut sort of said, I am not sure..what do you
think...he said..I need empolyees..lol...I walked in on
him "interviewing" three of the neighbourhood kids , one of them
being his sister...It was the cutest thing...It was neat too because
he was telling his "employees" that he was going to get paid 5.00 an
hour so he would give them half which would be 2.50 an hour and if
they only worked for an hour, it would be 1.25! I was blown
away...where did he learn that!! One of the reasons I wanted to
homeschool in the begining was becuase I wanted to know what and how
my children were learning....They dont go to school so where did he
get this stuff? lol..His sister decided that she would do it, IF and
only if she got to keep 4.00! He also decided that he was going to
approach his dad and ask for a loan for his businees, so that he
could buy his own leash! lol...it was amazing. He didnt get any calls
yet, but he is already planning his next business venture. The way
his mind was working, it really made me see that he truly has a
business mind...thats what makes him tick. To make a great day even
better we went out and played in the snow together....shovled our
front walk and driveway, giggled and had a great time. Heather (3yo)
and I came back in and made hot cocoa and she went down to watch some
shows...and I got some houswork done...We ended up having some of the
neighbourhood kids over, and one stayed for dinner. After dinner, the
kids cleaned the table without being asked...my daughter helped with
dishes without being asked, and preceeded to tell me stories about
everything and anything...She is quite the story teller...Back in
june I wouldnt have "let" her help with dishes I would have told her
to go find something on her own to do...*sigh*...so we sat and did
dishes and she told me stories...I listened. It was awesome. After
that was all said and done , the kids sat down and drew pictures
together while I tried to fix our blasted computer (I had to re DL
windows XP a few weeks ago and ever since then we don't have sound. I
know we have an onboard soundcard....HELP..LOL). Tyler then went on
to knitting his wallet he is making. He learnt how to change colours
yesterday amoungst all the other things we were doing. Very cool. Its
neat to see him sitting on the floor cross legged in combat pants
knitting...*smiles*. I gave up on the computer and we decided to play
monoply...Tyler (8yo) was the banker, Ashleigh (5yo) was the property
person and Heather(3yo) was Heather *smiles*...it was amazing...Tyler
was making change like a pro..helping his sisters make it
too...Ashleigh was able to give the right properties to people
ebcuase she organized them by colour and then matched the words on
the card to the words on the board..her doing , not mine. Heather
sorted the money by colour. It was so incrediable...Daddy came home,
the game went away. We spent some time talking together while daddy
ate his supper and tried the candy we made two days ago. He loved
them both..the kids then dissappeared upstairs and Graham and I sat
and talked about the property were looking into buying...when we
looked at the time it was 10pm, Graham had been up since 4 am and was
zonked and so was I. We headed upstairs to see what the kids were
doing...they were all found in Tylers bed cuddled together sound
asleep....*sigh*...what a perfect end to an amazing day...and the
best thing....my husband then looked at me and said, "you know this
unschooling thing just might work". My reply, "I was hoping you would
say that" . We might have a long way to go with this deschooling
process, but proof is in the puddin hunny.
Amoung all of this we had discussions abotu everything from weather,
friends, farming, animals, colours...sooo many things...amazing.
happy were doing this
P
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