Sandra Dodd

There's something I come across sometimes and couldn't find this morning.

Joyce explained why "whatever works" isn't good for unschooling. I don't know if it's on http://joyfullyrejoycing.com or http://sandradodd.com or elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

I'm hoping someone just knows, or can think of a phrase to search it out by.

And when it's found, new members here can read it. :-)

Thanks,

Sandra

kelly_sturman

Is it this?

http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/unschooling/noonerightwaytounschool.html

Kelly

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
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> There's something I come across sometimes and couldn't find this morning.
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> Joyce explained why "whatever works" isn't good for unschooling. I don't know if it's on http://joyfullyrejoycing.com or http://sandradodd.com or elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.
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> I'm hoping someone just knows, or can think of a phrase to search it out by.
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> And when it's found, new members here can read it. :-)
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> Thanks,
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> Sandra
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Sandra Dodd

That will do. I think there's another one, but I'll use this one! Thanks!

Sandra Dodd

Sometimes I just can't find files. I try phrases and get all kinds of other things. OH! Or more likely, I get to reading the wrong leads, and then I find something that needs to be edited on one of my pages, or I find something that would be a good Just Add Light quote, or I see an e-mail I want to answer, or Holly comes to sing "Someone to Watch Over Me" and talk about how dated the song is, socially, and I tell her that in those days lots of people believed that God would provide each person with their perfect mate and we compared that to "I'm Wishing" from Snow White, but Holly says at least Snow White was actually made in the 1930's, but her girls choir is singing this song in the 21st century, and....

Oh. That's all just what happened this morning. :-)

Connections, but in the opposite way. Detractions? Distractions?

Sandra

Joyce Fetteroll

On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> Joyce explained why "whatever works" isn't good for unschooling.

The phrase I often use is "what works for us" or "what works for my/our family".

Was it something you have saved or a post on the list? There's this:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlwaysLearning/message/61983

While I can picture what you're doing as running smoothly for you and
working for the goals you've created, the problem with "Here's what
works for us" type ideas is that it's like the instructions of a
recipe but without the ingredients. The instructions are the steps you
do. The ingredients are your family: the personalities, culture and
skills you each have.

The instructions create an apple pie you like in your family because
your personalities, culture and skills are apples, flour, butter and
sweet spices. If you hand those instructions to someone's whose family
is rice, tomatoes and beans it wont "work", eg, won't create an apple
pie.

"Work" for this list is defined as nurturing great relationships with
them (and between them and the world they live in), living and
learning joyfully. And what the list tries to help people get a grasp
of is not the instructions for apple pies but the chemistry and
physics that create the type of synergy this list focuses on, eg,
radical unschooling (as defined on this list) that "works" (as defined
previously).

Joyce

chris ester

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:

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I often end a sentence with, "...and then something shiny came along."
Basically to say that something interesting provided a detour from the
not-all-that-critical task that I was working on...

I used to think of myself as distractable and as a procrastinator, now I
realize that I am a person who has a wide variety of interests and feels
free to choose to pursue those interests as she sees fit. When something
is critical or time sensitive, I get to business, but if it is one of those
things that can wait, sometimes it waits.
Chris

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Sandra Dodd

-=-I often end a sentence with, "...and then something shiny came along."
Basically to say that something interesting provided a detour from the
not-all-that-critical task that I was working on...-=-

Before there was the internet and people used dictionaries and encylopedias, there were many times that I went to find something for me and someone else, or for a group, and didn't come back as quickly as they had thought I would, because right next to that thing I was looking up were other cool things!!

That problem is all solved, now, with Google.

(Yeah. No, it's not.)

Sandra

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Katie McGervey

Sandra wrote:
Before there was the internet and people used dictionaries and encylopedias,
there were many times that I went to find something for me and someone else,
or for a group, and didn't come back as quickly as they had thought I would,
because right next to that thing I was looking up were other cool things!!

That problem is all solved, now, with Google.

(Yeah. No, it's not.)>>

Maybe the disappearing part isn't solved with Google, but it's solved with
the iPad and smartphone ­ you don't have to wander away ­ it's right in your
lap!

Katie




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Sandra Dodd

-=-Maybe the disappearing part isn't solved with Google, but it's solved with
the iPad and smartphone ­ you don't have to wander away ­ it's right in your
lap!-=-

I still have a hard time looking one thing up without looking at all the stuff around it. And to watch *one* video on Youtube? Not likely. :-)

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