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Deschooling is not just the child recovering from school damage. It's also
the parents exploring their own school and childhood damage and proactively
changing their thinking until the paradigm shift happens.—Robyn Coburn
Fairy-Crown Robyn
photo by Jakesmome,
September 2006, Albuquerque
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Robyn Coburn on Unschooling
NEW:
Some general thoughts on Respect
The Beautiful Park, hard to describe, and hard to forget
Giving Children Options
"Expectations can get in the way of seeing what is really happening."
Robyn's answer to "How does a person who has no rules to follow as a child cope to life as an adult in a world filled with rules? "
Talking to Babies
(one of several contributors)
Avoiding "No"
Saying "Yes"
Mothering During a Melt-Down, with many suggestions for avoiding melt-down situations, and strategies and tools for restoring calm
Robyn responds to questions about options, TV, freedoms...
On young children and TV: What's the Attraction?
What are the Fears?
Response to someone saying unschoolers will not be able to keep jobs
Jayn Coburn at a Barbie Convention
Jayn's Barbie scenarios
and Robyn's descriptions
"The Early Years"
Once you take out any academic pressures with these younger-than-school-age folk what is left is the Radical or whole life part of Radical Unschooling? I will talk about how I have found that 'to trust' is an action as well as an emotion and how Trust is the foundation of parenting into a life of Unschooling with Joy. CD of talk available from Live and Learn conference site
Robyn makes dolls and has a blog and etsy store:
iggyjingles.blogspot.com
Iggyjingles.etsy.com
"My father was Elimar Clemens Buschmann, born in Cologne, Germany around 1917 or 18, one of nine brothers. He spent his working life as a juggler, and tightrope walker, later slackrope walker – juggling on a wire. I had always been told, since my childhood, that he invented the tennis racket trick in the early thirties. . . ." read more and see video!!
Other voices:
Jenny Cyphers
Pam Sorooshian
Joyce Fetteroll
Lyle Perry
Deb Lewis
Mary Gold
Danielle Conger
Ren Allen
Pam Laricchia
Schuyler Waynforth
Dan Vilter
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