Julie Stauffer

We are planning on South Carolina.

I don't care what the format is. I'm just so excited to be meeting other
unschoolers and the fact that dh is also excited to go. We are driving in
from Texas and making a family vacation out of it. Dh went to college in
Columbia so we know a few things to do. If anybody has any suggestions for
cool stuff to do with 5 kids, let us know.

Julie

joanna514

. If anybody has any suggestions for
> cool stuff to do with 5 kids, let us know.
>
> Julie

I have never been to homeschool conference. I'm wondering what the
kids do during presentations(assuming kids are welcome).
The SC one is 3 days. How long of a day? I'm thinking a morning and
afternoon session.?? Are there activities at night?
Joanna

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In a message dated 3/8/2002 1:11:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Wilkinson6@... writes:
> I have never been to homeschool conference. I'm wondering what the
> kids do during presentations(assuming kids are welcome).
> The SC one is 3 days. How long of a day? I'm thinking a morning and
> afternoon session.?? Are there activities at night?
> Joanna
>
OK. I've never been to one either, so I'm flying by the seat of my
pants---and those of Sandra and Nathaline---and any others whose pants I can
grab.

Children are OF COURSE welcome! This IS an UNschooling conference! <g>
Things get started Fri afternoon and are followed by Game Night as a " get to
know you". Sat & Sun there will be speakers and Funshops (or, to the more
seriously minded, workshops) open to adults AND kids. Sat night we will have
a talent show---open to kids AND adults. There will be no age discrimination,
although there will probably be things that certain ages will enjoy more than
others.

PLEASE if you have any ideas, send them this way---there's still LOTS to
plan, and I'm open to suggestions---although I cannot guarantee I'll use your
idea!

The website should be up by the end of next week. I'll post as soon as it's
up!

Kelly


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On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:07:37 EST kbcdlovejo@... writes:
> Children are OF COURSE welcome! This IS an UNschooling conference! <g>

> Things get started Fri afternoon and are followed by Game Night as a "
get to
> know you". Sat & Sun there will be speakers and Funshops (or, to the
more
> seriously minded, workshops) open to adults AND kids. Sat night we will
have
> a talent show---open to kids AND adults. There will be no age
> discrimination, although there will probably be things that certain
ages will enjoy
> more than others.

Oh, wow, how totally cool! I've been no mail for a few days while we went
to Mexico so I missed the beginning of the discussion, but this sounds
awesome. I went around and around with the HSC people on their stupid
ageist rules and finally decided it wasn't worth it until Cacie was a
teen and was "allowed" to actually walk from one place to another
unescorted - not to mention how she was "too old" or "too young" to go to
90% of what was offered... arggh..

Anyway, this sounds excellent. Have I effused enough? I wonder of we
could make a road trip out of it, we've been threatening.... um,
*promising* to visit some folks there for years, and now we could visit
Sharon, too... Unschoolers Across America?

Hmm. Looks like a 5500 mile round trip just going to Columbia and back.
Dang, this is a big country. Perhaps we'll fly...

Dar, excited!

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In a message dated 3/8/02 5:04:42 PM, freeform@... writes:

<< I went around and around with the HSC people on their stupid
ageist rules and finally decided it wasn't worth it until Cacie was a
teen and was "allowed" to actually walk from one place to another
unescorted - >>

What are the rules about kids for the Sacramento deal? I've been planning to
take Holly with me to Sacramento this year, but she's only ten, and if that
means she has to be with an adult all the time I'd rather leave her home. I
wouldn't want to impose on anyone else, and she won't want to hang around
with me all the time. I've never had kids with me before, so could always
ignore that part of it.

Sandra

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On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:32:40 EST SandraDodd@... writes:
> What are the rules about kids for the Sacramento deal? I've been
> planning to take Holly with me to Sacramento this year, but she's only
ten, and
> if that means she has to be with an adult all the time I'd rather
leave her
> home.

Well, for the last two years anyway, the rules were that kids had to be
accompanied by an adult everywhere. They had workshops (or "activities")
for kids but each attending child needed to have an adult with them at
the workshop, and they couldn't leave the workshop by themselves to go
elsewhere. You could have a few kids to one adult, but it still was a lot
of juggling, and often the kids we knew didn't want to go to the same
workshops, or they'd rather swim, or play in the hotel room, or whatever.


Teens were a whole different ballgame, they didn't have to be escorted.
However, all the workshops had age limits, and the one year we went (year
before last) Cacie was the wrong age for everything she thought was
interesting - most of what sounded good to her was designated "teen"
stuff.

So, frankly, I was less than thrilled, and so was she... we both think
the SC conference sounds much better! Although if Holly wants to come to
Sacramento, she's be welcome to come hang out with us :-)

Dar

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--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., freeform@j... wrote:
>
>
I went around and around with the HSC people on their stupid
> ageist rules and finally decided it wasn't worth it until Cacie
was a
> teen and was "allowed" to actually walk from one place to
another
> unescorted - not to mention how she was "too old" or "too
young" to go to
> 90% of what was offered... arggh..
>

Oh no! Is that what it's like? I was planning on taking Tamzin but
maybe I should leave her with my mom if she can't go anywhere
or do anything! If anyone has more info about kids and the
Sacramento HSC Conference, I would appreciate all the info I
can get about this. TIA

Meghan

moonmeghan

--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., freeform@j... wrote:
>
>
> Well, for the last two years anyway, the rules were that kids had
to be
> accompanied by an adult everywhere. They had workshops (or
"activities")
> for kids but each attending child needed to have an adult with
them at
> the workshop, and they couldn't leave the workshop by
themselves to go
> elsewhere. You could have a few kids to one adult, but it still
was a lot
> of juggling, and often the kids we knew didn't want to go to the
same
> workshops, or they'd rather swim, or play in the hotel room, or
whatever.
>
>
> Teens were a whole different ballgame, they didn't have to be
escorted.
> However, all the workshops had age limits, and the one year
we went (year
> before last) Cacie was the wrong age for everything she
thought was
> interesting - most of what sounded good to her was
designated "teen"
> stuff.
>
> So, frankly, I was less than thrilled, and so was she... we both
think
> the SC conference sounds much better! Although if Holly
wants to come to
> Sacramento, she's be welcome to come hang out with us :-)
>
> Dar
>

Well, this sounds like this single mom's nightmare. How am I
supposed to go and hear someone speak that Tamzin has no
interest in? And does having to be at all activities with her mean
that I'm going to miss out on stuff that I want to see? I was
hoping that she might be able to go to an activity whilst I went to
a presentation. I guess not :-(
Luckily, we have those little walkie talkie things. At least maybe
she could be in the room (watching TV or playing) while I went to
a presentation. There's probably not too many that I want to go to
anyway. I mainly want to go to meet some of you folks from the
list.

Meghan

Cindy

moonmeghan wrote:
>
> Oh no! Is that what it's like? I was planning on taking Tamzin but
> maybe I should leave her with my mom if she can't go anywhere
> or do anything! If anyone has more info about kids and the
> Sacramento HSC Conference, I would appreciate all the info I
> can get about this. TIA
>
For what it's worth, I have not taken my children to the conference
once. This will be my 5th year attending - my kids and husband do
something else that weekend. I don't know when my children might
start going - I do know they won't be going this year either.

--

Cindy Ferguson
crma@...

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In a message dated 4/11/2003 1:53:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pamsoroosh@... writes:


> CONFERENCES really really did a lot for me. I went to a number of them
> in my first couple of years of unschooling and I look back and realize
> they were really invaluable for catching the unschooling spirit - after
> that I was not trying to implement stuff I'd only heard or read about -
> but I had really inhaled it - hanging with other unschooling parents
> and their kids made it very "real" - not a pie in the sky ideal that
> was hard to grasp. WONDERFUL experience.
>

And HUSBANDS benefit SO much 'cause they can actually understand what you've
been saying and then see real live unschoolers---makes ALL the difference! We
had quite a few "converts" after last year's conference!

~Kelly


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