mamaaj2000

Stanley, on the Disney channel, is about the closest thing to an
unschooling show. Stanley and his friends learn about an animal
because it's relevant to what's going on in their lives. A trip to
the dentist leads to learning about walruses and their teeth, not
wanting to wear elbow and knee pads leads to learning about rhinos
and their protective skin, etc. On the one where he gets a scooter
and doesn't want to wear the padding, it's not a matter of his
parents telling him he _has_ to wear it, but of him making the
decision that it's a good idea.

They also don't dumb things down too much and just say "nocturnal" as
though young kids were capable of understanding it!

Anyone else a big Stanley fan?

--aj

Wendy E

My kids love this too!!!! So do I.

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<mamaaj2000@y...> wrote:
> Stanley, on the Disney channel, is about the closest thing to an
> unschooling show. Stanley and his friends learn about an animal
> because it's relevant to what's going on in their lives. A trip to
> the dentist leads to learning about walruses and their teeth, not
> wanting to wear elbow and knee pads leads to learning about rhinos
> and their protective skin, etc. On the one where he gets a scooter
> and doesn't want to wear the padding, it's not a matter of his
> parents telling him he _has_ to wear it, but of him making the
> decision that it's a good idea.
>
> They also don't dumb things down too much and just say "nocturnal"
as
> though young kids were capable of understanding it!
>
> Anyone else a big Stanley fan?
>
> --aj

Kelli Traaseth

This is funny,

I've also just recently realized, that I like Stanley. If we're
flipping through the tv show guide, I catch myself saying, "can we
watch Stanley?"

I love it when the, is it the dog and cat?, break into song.
<g> "Its the great big book of everything". Its so cheesy, gotta
love it. Then they sit back down.

I've always loved encyclopedias, dictionaries and, of course,
google. So it makes sense that I like the great big book of
everything. Its a lot like my huge new dictonary that I just
got. :)

Kelli~

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<mamaaj2000@y...> wrote:
> Anyone else a big Stanley fan?
>

Rebecca DeLong

Jaiden (5.5) loves Stanley too, although he is frequently muttering under his breath while watching the show "it isn't the great big book of EVERYTHING, it's the great big book of EVERY animal. If it was everything in it, it'd have more than animals"

The fact that it only seems to have animals and not everything, but they call it "eveything" really bothers him.

He wants to make a real great big book of everything, and it really will have everything...:)

~Rebecca

Kelli Traaseth <kellitraas@...> wrote:
I've always loved encyclopedias, dictionaries and, of course,
google. So it makes sense that I like the great big book of
everything. Its a lot like my huge new dictonary that I just
got. :)



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In a message dated 6/16/04 9:09:29 AM, elfmama_2@... writes:

<< He wants to make a real great big book of everything, and it really will
have everything...:) >>

Even the internet doesn't have everything, DARN IT!

A book that shows unschooling (though it didn't mean to) almost perfectly is
Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum. He might like that
book. You can get them used at Amazon, I think. There's a link to it from
here:

http://sandradodd.com/unschooling

It was still in print a few years ago and I ordered a batch, but am down to
one, I think, somewhere. I still have the softer, older one from when my kids
were little.

Sandra

Robyn Coburn

I think it was on this list that we were talking about unschooling movies
and tv shows.

It occurred to me, since Jayn put it on this evening, that "Kiki's Delivery
Service" would certainly fall into that category. The heroine is 13 years
old, on her witch training year, and the whole movie unfolds as if school
simply did not exist both for her, and the other young people she meets. It
also has the ideas of learning being passed down from mother to daughter,
following your own heart (the magic within), children as responsible people,
and finding friends and mentors of all ages.

Robyn L. Coburn

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