[email protected]

Gail,

I just wanted you to know how wonderful this makes me feel!

People have written before how much the conferences have meant to them, but
WOW! does it touch my heart that it's changed your *daughter's* life so much!

Thank you for that bright spot in my day!

~Kelly


In a message dated 1/7/2004 8:59:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Although, we are fairly new unschoolers, my 14 year old daughter, Brenna, has
been doing very "cool" things since we came home from last years Unschooling
Conference. She went with us loaded down with her academic books from a
homeschooling co-op which included
Anatomy and Phisiology, Geometry, and World History. She truly came home a
changed child. She quit the co-op and those textbooks are gathering dust .
She
read Grace Llewlyns "Teenage Liberation Handbook", made a quilt with
quilting pieces from the conference raffle, started sculpting, became very
involved
in photography, planted strawberry corn, which is in pots all over our house,
in preparation for a small green house she is designing, went back to
writing
poetry(which is all over her bedroom floor), decided to direct a play this
spring and has found the play and a facility as well as a group of
homeschoolers
to act in it, became interested in vegetarian cooking and made a wonderful
dinner for us all last night. She and I took a wheel building class and
learned
to throw pots that we gave friends and family for Christmas gifts. I
continue to just be in awe of her enthusiasm, energy and the joy she brings
to her
days. She has always been very self-directed and has homeschooled since she
was
8 but her energies went into "school-like" pursuits. There was very little
of the joyfulness evident that I now see in her every day.

This morning , she has discovered boxes of pictures that I never got into
albums and is working on a scrapbook of her life so far. She is also
involved
in community theatre and enjoys public speaking.

Brenna asked if you could e-mail her as she would love to be involved in any
way at the Live and Learn Conference this year. We will definitely be there.

After the changes in our lives from last year, I wouldn't miss it for
anything.

Her e-mail is brennadee@...

Gail
(who now even drives around with unschooling bumper stickers in our extremely
conservative and religious homeschool community)


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