HSMomof8

I hope it is ok for me to ask this, but I would love to find back issues of HEM magazines that anyone is willing to part with. I am looking into a subscription when I can swing it, but hear so much about them and would love to have a few to strew over while sitting :)
We are fairly new to unschooling and I have enjoyed reading whatever literature I can get ahold of at our local library, but unfortunately I am unable to check out their magazines.
Thank you
Amie in OH

Robin Bentley

> I hope it is ok for me to ask this, but I would love to find back
> issues of HEM magazines that anyone is willing to part with. I am
> looking into a subscription when I can swing it, but hear so much
> about them and would love to have a few to strew over while sitting :)

I'm not sure I would recommend HEM as the best source for information
about unschooling. My suggestion would be to read John Holt's books to
understand its origins, then read Sandra's "Big Book of Unschooling"
to understand it in practice. Rue Kream's book "Parenting a Free
Child" is also a good read. Some or all of them might be in your
library. You could request them, if not.

Print out (if you like paper rather than on-screen reading <g>) pages
from Sandra's site. Joyce Fetterol, Pam Sorooshian, Deb Lewis, and
many more respected unschooling "voices" are there.

HTTP://sandradodd.com/unschooling

> ...would love to have a few to strew over while sitting :)

I'm not sure what you mean here, but here's a definition of "strewing"
as used by unschoolers:

http://sandradodd.com/strew/sandra

This list is also a great place to learn more about unschooling!

Robin B.

aldq75

HEM advertises as the "premier magazine for unschooling families". I've seen a few good articles, but there's a lot of other stuff to wade through.

Andrea Q

--- In [email protected], Robin Bentley <robin.bentley@...> wrote:
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> I'm not sure I would recommend HEM as the best source for information
> about unschooling.

Sandra Dodd

-=-HEM advertises as the "premier magazine for unschooling families". I've seen a few good articles, but there's a lot of other stuff to wade through.-=-

I think it's the only paper-print magazine left that's not by fundamentalist Christians, so if that's true, it 's the best of the lot. There are many advertisements for school-on-DVD, school-on-paper, school-in-workbooks, etc.

I used to be a columnist, but all my columns are in Moving a Puddle.

http://sandradodd.com/puddlebook

For less than a one-year's subscription (and less than the shipping of a pile of back issues), you can read what was actually about unschooling.
(There are articles that were published elsewhere, too, but all the HEM columns are in there.)

Then there's this:
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
and
http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/

Sanda

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JustSayin

I had a subscription to HEM for a while but honestly they had maybe one article about unschooling (which was always pretty good), but the rest of it just kind of annoyed me. Very schoolish.

I would read the unschooling articles in HEM while you're at the library and save your subscription money for something else (like ice cream ;>)

--Melissa

--- In [email protected], "HSMomof8" <dkcoffman@...> wrote:
>
> I hope it is ok for me to ask this, but I would love to find back issues of HEM magazines that anyone is willing to part with. I am looking into a subscription when I can swing it, but hear so much about them and would love to have a few to strew over while sitting :)
> We are fairly new to unschooling and I have enjoyed reading whatever literature I can get ahold of at our local library, but unfortunately I am unable to check out their magazines.
> Thank you
> Amie in OH
>

Kelly Lovejoy

HEM sees no difference between unschooling and homeschooling. They are one-in-the-same at HEM.


~Kelly

Kelly Lovejoy
"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children." Marianne Williamson



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From: aldq75 <aldq75@...>
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Re: Looking for magazines


HEM advertises as the "premier magazine for unschooling families". I've seen a
few good articles, but there's a lot of other stuff to wade through.

Andrea Q

--- In [email protected], Robin Bentley <robin.bentley@...> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I would recommend HEM as the best source for information
> about unschooling.







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Daniel Coffman

I always got the impression that HEM was full of unschooling articles (not because I had any opportunity to really browse through one) but because in reading books by Holt and others, the title would pop up in there somewhere, so I thought maybe I was missing something :)
Thank you to all of you for helping me to see what it's not, and for the recommended reading.
As far as the strewing, I had used the word not as intended. I usually have reading material in the bathroom and wherever I sit to nurse the baby, for the purpose of skimming through while sitting and that is what I meant :)
Have a great day
Amie

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