sam

I joined this board recently and have been reading through some of the
posts. I'm not new to homeschooling or unschooling. In my later high
school years we became friends with a family of homeschoolers which
led us to try it for a short time. I and my younger brothers were sort
of homeschooled the year I would have been a senior. I never did any
work and ended up getting my GED.
When my wife became pregnant and our first child was born, we
discussed homeschooling as basically the only option that we were
willing to consider. Neither of us were happy with the schooling we
had gotten or the overall experience of schools.
I've just recently gotten around to reading How Children Learn and am
playing with reading Learning All The Time, though I may need a break
for something a little more fun.
I've kind of filled my brain the last week or two, reading this board
and another local board. I've been reading a lot of stuff on Sandra's
site as well as all those links. I'm also in the middle or rethinking
my treatment of my boys in terms of punishment and getting them to act
a certain way, thanks again to Sandra's site.
So I've basically got a lot of thinking to do, a lot of personal
change/growth. I keep seeing the error of my ways in different areas
and finding areas in which I'm satisfied with how we've been working.
I suppose in a sense I'm deschooling, but I don't really feel that I
have a lot of the hang ups that so many of us have to work on. My
biggest hurdle is just relaxing, knowing that things will be okay.
I would like to say thanks to Sandra because I feel I've learned so
much the last couple of weeks, and so much of this started by
stumbling onto her site.

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In a message dated 11/9/05 12:56:28 PM, andextradays@... writes:


> I would like to say thanks to Sandra because I feel I've learned so
> much the last couple of weeks, and so much of this started by
> stumbling onto her site. 
>

You're welcome! I love to hear when people have benefitted from all that.

And I need to say thanks to the dozens of people who have said "Sure!" when
I've asked if I can appropriate their words that I find hither and yon around
the discussion lists and message boards!

Another site, if you haven't already discovered it, way more organized than
mine and more... more... logical? Engineerly? is this:

http://home.earthlink.net/~fetteroll/rejoycing/

One cool thing about Joyce's is that you can start and finish it, wheras with
mine, you can start and get lost, and come back out and start and get in a
loop, and come back out and... I have pages I've lost. Some I've found after
months and realized I never announced its presence and never linked it
because I had wanted to find that leafy background, or make a particular set of
links. <g>

Sandra


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