wesschool3

Hi, I am a few weeks new to navigating this site and have been mostly
confused as to how exactly to get around. Alas, I fear not...I am as
new to unschooling and just as scared yet I am moving forward with my
fingers crossed and my intuitive ear pressed firmly to my childs
chest! My 10 yo son came home to "BE" after attending a Waldorf
school since kindergarten. Although his coming home was a reaction to
a long overdue decision to finally let him be who He came here to
become..not who I or his father or even the well-intended teachers of
his school would have him be. It was like my head all of a sudden
came bursting though the clouds that had surrounded my best intuitive
knowing about this child who came to me/us. There was no turning my
back on this knowledge once I fully understood what was being asked
of me. I was to bring my son home and allow him the opportunities to
grow and strive and succeed and falter and guess and know and not
know...to fully become who he decides to become! As a mother who is
limited only by her humanness, I began schooling the way he and I
thought he'd like it...it looked like school, but not like a Waldorf
school. That was nice and it lasted a month or so, just until the
newness wore off. Then I struggled and pressed him and fear welled
up in me about the unknowns and the what if's about his future. He
fought back against my oppessive tendencies and reminded me on a
daily basis that I was turning into the teacher who'd we just
released him from and he was hurting. I stopped cold in my tracks
because I really heard him, I really saw his wounded boy spirit--I
wept alot that couple of weeks...
What I am so utterly grateful for is my intuitive nature and my quick
turn arounds...which have led me to find "unschooling." This feels
like all the "rights" that I've felt with my son-from conception to
home-birthing, to not vaccinating, to homeopathy, to Waldorf (while
it held him and nurtured) and now to feel this newest path of seeking
and believing he will lead his own unique way to knowledge.
Unschooling is the YES in our lives today--thank you for being here
when I needed to find the defintion of my feelings.