RE: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 1891
M. Alterman
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 1891
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1. Re: RE: Re: Growing teens/ active or busy
From: Betsy Hill <ecsamhill@...>
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:48:38 -0700
From: Betsy Hill <ecsamhill@...>
Subject: Re: RE: Re: Growing teens/ active or busy
**
When people say the unschooling isn't working, I'm wondering what they
are basing this on. Are kids complaining? **
I will confess that I was kind of falling into this trap, early on. When my
kid was 7 or 8, I kept waiting for him to be have an interest in something
semi-academic -- Ancient Egypt or bugs or something. (Then I probably would
have buried him under an avalanche of "enriching" ideas.) I was kind of
selective in my thinking. It took me awhile to realize that he did have an
interest, a strong interest in Pokemon.
Yes, I had the very same thing happen to me and I am still dealing with it.
My youngest has become interested in paintball....boy, have I opened my mind
to somethings around that. I continue to "push" some of my ideas,
interests, etc. and we have a discipline of reading everyday (he has been
labeled dyslexic)...I let him choose what we read but we do read and we do
play around with math facts from time to time. I'm not a purist(unschooler)
and have no wish to be, but more and more I see the value in giving my kids
as much freedom to choose as I can responsibly tolerate.
One of the things that has concerned me about things like video games and
pokeman cards is the fact that there is an enormous promotion via the media
machine out there selling this stuff to our kids. So I feel quite strongly
about my continued role as parent in checking these things out, but mostly,
my kids are good at choosing for themselves what's appropriate.
I think it's hard, in the beginning, to get over the idea that kids need to
learn most of the same "subject matter" as school kids. I was the kind of
kid who always sat around with a book, often a historical novel, and one of
my best friends has a homeschooled daughter much like me. In the early
days, that was what I kind of imagined that my son would turn out like.
(Strange, but true.)
Betsy
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 6:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 1891
There is 1 message in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: RE: Re: Growing teens/ active or busy
From: Betsy Hill <ecsamhill@...>
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:48:38 -0700
From: Betsy Hill <ecsamhill@...>
Subject: Re: RE: Re: Growing teens/ active or busy
**
When people say the unschooling isn't working, I'm wondering what they
are basing this on. Are kids complaining? **
I will confess that I was kind of falling into this trap, early on. When my
kid was 7 or 8, I kept waiting for him to be have an interest in something
semi-academic -- Ancient Egypt or bugs or something. (Then I probably would
have buried him under an avalanche of "enriching" ideas.) I was kind of
selective in my thinking. It took me awhile to realize that he did have an
interest, a strong interest in Pokemon.
Yes, I had the very same thing happen to me and I am still dealing with it.
My youngest has become interested in paintball....boy, have I opened my mind
to somethings around that. I continue to "push" some of my ideas,
interests, etc. and we have a discipline of reading everyday (he has been
labeled dyslexic)...I let him choose what we read but we do read and we do
play around with math facts from time to time. I'm not a purist(unschooler)
and have no wish to be, but more and more I see the value in giving my kids
as much freedom to choose as I can responsibly tolerate.
One of the things that has concerned me about things like video games and
pokeman cards is the fact that there is an enormous promotion via the media
machine out there selling this stuff to our kids. So I feel quite strongly
about my continued role as parent in checking these things out, but mostly,
my kids are good at choosing for themselves what's appropriate.
I think it's hard, in the beginning, to get over the idea that kids need to
learn most of the same "subject matter" as school kids. I was the kind of
kid who always sat around with a book, often a historical novel, and one of
my best friends has a homeschooled daughter much like me. In the early
days, that was what I kind of imagined that my son would turn out like.
(Strange, but true.)
Betsy
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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Yahoo! Groups Links
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