This will be a repository of links to article and discussions as they come along or are re-discovered.
Robin Bentley was responding in a long topic and wrote, in part: Itʻs about priorities. If your priority is a dream job, then unschooling will tend to take a back seat. Radical unschooling happens all the time, with present parents and, sometimes, with additional help. If your priority is to build relationships with your children through unschooling, then a dream job might need to wait.I wanted to explain why I had sometimes brought up adoption (as I had not in this case and wasn't planning to): -=-Sandra has said (and it might seem harsh, at first) that a person could always put their kids up for adoption-=-It's useful when people are on a martyrly rant about how it's TOO HARD and others must be lying if they're saying they can live peacefully with children, and Why oh WHY is life so Crappy and AWFUL and how can total strangers think they know ANYthing about being parents to children and wah WAH oh WAH!. The Precious Journey of the Mother who Adopts Older Children By Laurie A. Couture Web Exclusive April 17, 2009 http://mothering.com/articles/new_baby/adoption/older-children.html |