What would you have done differently?
Sandra Dodd
Jill Parmer has a request for a topic chat. I'll make a transcript of
the Monday afternoon chat on this question:
What would you have done differently? Especially if your unschooled
children are teens or grown, what would you change if you could do it
over?
For some people the chat's inconvenient or they don't type fast or the
font is small. I know it's not for everyone. So if anyone on this
list wants to put some ideas out here, I could add some of those to
the page with the chat transcript, too.
Sandra
If you want to be in the chat, it's here:
http://sandradodd.com/room
Two hours, beginning:
Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday
Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday
New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday
The password is: goodidea (and it's in the background art)
the Monday afternoon chat on this question:
What would you have done differently? Especially if your unschooled
children are teens or grown, what would you change if you could do it
over?
For some people the chat's inconvenient or they don't type fast or the
font is small. I know it's not for everyone. So if anyone on this
list wants to put some ideas out here, I could add some of those to
the page with the chat transcript, too.
Sandra
If you want to be in the chat, it's here:
http://sandradodd.com/room
Two hours, beginning:
Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday
Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday
New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday
The password is: goodidea (and it's in the background art)
Karen Norman
That sounds really interesting, just checking, by make a transcript do you
mean you will put the transcript of the chat on your site with the other
collected transcripts? Its just I¹d love to hear what people say but not
sure if I will be able to make the actual chat or not it happens really
late here UK thanks!
Karen
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mean you will put the transcript of the chat on your site with the other
collected transcripts? Its just I¹d love to hear what people say but not
sure if I will be able to make the actual chat or not it happens really
late here UK thanks!
Karen
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Sandra Dodd
-=-That sounds really interesting, just checking, by make a transcript
do you
mean you will put the transcript of the chat on your site with the other
collected transcripts?-=-
Correct. I'll keep the important good parts and put them on a page.
And if people want to discuss the same topic here, I could save
important good parts from here too.
Sandra
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do you
mean you will put the transcript of the chat on your site with the other
collected transcripts?-=-
Correct. I'll keep the important good parts and put them on a page.
And if people want to discuss the same topic here, I could save
important good parts from here too.
Sandra
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Heather
My kids are 12 and 16.
I would have let go of more control over TV, video games, and food much
earlier, or not ever started to control those things. I regret and am
embarrassed that I ever did it, and the controlling has bad results.
Most of them, but not all, are healed at this point- after 5 years or
more years since I got it.
I would have responded more kindly and with less blame to my kids when
they were fighting. Getting angry at them repeatedly did not help them
be less angry with each other. Their relationship has not benefited from
any anger or consequences I inflicted on them before I figured it out.
At this point they do not fight, and rarely even argue, but are not
really good friends, either. Which they might not ever have been, as
they don't have all that many things in common, but I will always wonder
if they could have been.
Heather (in NY)
Sandra Dodd wrote:
I would have let go of more control over TV, video games, and food much
earlier, or not ever started to control those things. I regret and am
embarrassed that I ever did it, and the controlling has bad results.
Most of them, but not all, are healed at this point- after 5 years or
more years since I got it.
I would have responded more kindly and with less blame to my kids when
they were fighting. Getting angry at them repeatedly did not help them
be less angry with each other. Their relationship has not benefited from
any anger or consequences I inflicted on them before I figured it out.
At this point they do not fight, and rarely even argue, but are not
really good friends, either. Which they might not ever have been, as
they don't have all that many things in common, but I will always wonder
if they could have been.
Heather (in NY)
Sandra Dodd wrote:
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> What would you have done differently? Especially if your unschooled
> children are teens or grown, what would you change if you could do it
> over?
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