Meryl

I just wanted to share the great day I had with my 2.5 year old son Logan.

He is at the age where people are questioning us about pre-school.
Everyone is in such a rush to get their kids out of the house.

Today exemplified all of the reasons that Logan will be Unschooled.
We left the house and headed to the subway, (we live in Manhattan).
On the way there, Logan spotted a number of street signs.
He commented on their shapes and colors, he gets very excited by this.
We got to the subway, and he said we were taking the "A" train, so we sang the song together.
At 14th Street there is an elevator to get out of the subway, so he talked about going up and down.
We were headed downtown to a really fun water playground.
He had a blast playing in the water, filling up a cup and spilling it out.
He also practiced his climbing to get to the big curly slide.
Logan also got to socialize with lots of kids of many different ages.
Sometimes that takes some negotiating...he's learning.
After a few hours we headed back home.
When we got off of the train, Logan wanted to go to Central Park, which we call our back yard.
There is a small lake near us, and he loves to look at the ducks.
We watched the ducks; he counted sticks and threw them in the water, looked at trees, flowers and squirrels. Sometimes we see Raccoons too.
As an added bonus, there was a troop of actors performing Shakespeare.
There was sword fighting, so Logan wanted to watch the show.

It was such a fun filled day with no nap, so now he is fast asleep.

I never had this much fun, or got so much out of a day in school.

Meryl

BTW Sandra, your daughter Holly was quite impressive on You Tube.
My husband wants to hear more from young adults who have been unschooled.
I'm going to have him watch her video.

Sandra Dodd

Meryl, do you have any photos of that day?

Thanks for this: -=-BTW Sandra, your daughter Holly was quite
impressive on You Tube.
My husband wants to hear more from young adults who have been
unschooled.
I'm going to have him watch her video.-=-

Some of the criticism Holly got from people who are sure they know
more than she does about how to be normal included the suggestion that
she doesn't have enough social skill to make eye contact with a
camera. She was looking at the interviewer, and cameras don't have
eyes.... And TWO people thought she had said she couldn't read at
17. Seems someone with a high school or college education would have
the attention span for a video that's less than three minutes long. :-)

I'm thick-skinned about people criticizing me, but they were insulting
my baby!!
(There were some nice comments, too.)

Sandra

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BRIAN POLIKOWSKY

I loved Holly's video. I thought she was great in it.
Having met her in person and exchanged a few words I know she looks righ in your eyes with a nice wide smile and she is just  so ...how can I put it sweet, adorable beautiful and at the same time confident and secure young woman.
Don't let those comments bother you.

 
Alex Polikowsky
http://polykow.blogspot.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschoolingmn/
 





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Joyce Fetteroll

On May 31, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> she doesn't have enough social skill to make eye contact with a
> camera.

I think they haven't watched enough TV! ;-)

Only when the interview's being done remotely does the interviewee
talk to the camera. Or probably they talk to a monitor next to the
camera since if it's done by phone you can see their gaze wandering
off sometimes. If the interviewer is there in the room with them,
they talk to the interviewer.

Joyce

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Meryl

She is natural and at ease in front of the camera.
Her inner glow and confidence shines through.
Not too many young people really have that, many just fake it well.

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> Meryl, do you have any photos of that day?
>
> Thanks for this: -=-BTW Sandra, your daughter Holly was quite
> impressive on You Tube.
> My husband wants to hear more from young adults who have been
> unschooled.
> I'm going to have him watch her video.-=-
>
> Some of the criticism Holly got from people who are sure they know
> more than she does about how to be normal included the suggestion that
> she doesn't have enough social skill to make eye contact with a
> camera. She was looking at the interviewer, and cameras don't have
> eyes.... And TWO people thought she had said she couldn't read at
> 17. Seems someone with a high school or college education would have
> the attention span for a video that's less than three minutes long. :-)
>
> I'm thick-skinned about people criticizing me, but they were insulting
> my baby!!
> (There were some nice comments, too.)
>
> Sandra
>
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>

Jenny C

>
> Some of the criticism Holly got from people who are sure they know
> more than she does about how to be normal ....

And, it's obvious to me that those people criticizing Holly, haven't
spent a lot of time with many young adults/older teens. Other than
homeschooled or unschooled kids and the exceptions from public school,
most of that population that's been in school, don't have nearly the
sparkle or clarity that Holly displayed. I thought it interesting that
someone even disparaged the fact that Holly liked her parents, as if
that wasn't a huge big deal in and of itself!

Cally

 
 


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From: Meryl <mranzer@...>
To: [email protected]
 
 
She is natural and at ease in front of the camera.
Her inner glow and confidence shines through.
Not too many young people really have that, many just fake it well.

 
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After being a stranger to this list the past 4 years, this is my first glimpse of Holly other than early childhood pics.  I was so impressed by her confidence, and how comfortable she was with herself.  It bears repeating that her inner radiance comes shining through.  Wow.
Carole






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