Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 349
[email protected]
In a message dated 5/8/2002 11:52:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
ways they want them to grow and unschooling will make it too obvious that
they can't "train" them so they may like the idea but they'll never be
comfortable. I think there are people who don't want to develop new interests
and look at the world as a huge giant museum and think that hard about what
might interest their kids and always be supportive of the kids' interests
even when they don't look like standard academic stuff. I think there are
people who can't overcome their own negativity and cynicism and negativity
are not compatible with unschooling.
I think that the "idea" of unschooling can appeal to those people, but that
they will never be happily joyfully able to do it.
--pamS
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[email protected] writes:
> I never really got on board with the idea that some people "can't" unschool.I think there are parents who like their kids okay - but have really specific
>
> I like to believe that if someone cares enough to ask about unschooling,
> they have the ability to learn and grow and develop the awareness to do it.
>
ways they want them to grow and unschooling will make it too obvious that
they can't "train" them so they may like the idea but they'll never be
comfortable. I think there are people who don't want to develop new interests
and look at the world as a huge giant museum and think that hard about what
might interest their kids and always be supportive of the kids' interests
even when they don't look like standard academic stuff. I think there are
people who can't overcome their own negativity and cynicism and negativity
are not compatible with unschooling.
I think that the "idea" of unschooling can appeal to those people, but that
they will never be happily joyfully able to do it.
--pamS
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[email protected]
In a message dated 5/8/2002 11:52:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
else was missed? There is ALWAYS something else they'd be doing if you hadn't
made them do what you wanted them to do. Inertia would have come up some
other time, some other place. My kids probably know more interesting things
to say about it than I do <G>. I never planned an "inertia" experiment for
them, to make sure they knew about it. I took them to science museums though.
But even THERE I didn't make sure they learned about inertia. They could have
gone to the same science museum 20 times and ignored that topic altogether
because they were busy with other stuff. EVEN THEN it would have come up
someplace else. For sure. Some time. MAYBE NOT UNTIL THEY ARE 20 years old,
though. No guarantees that there won't be "gaps." I'm just not all that
worried about gaps. EVERYBODY has them - it doesn't matter.
--pamS
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[email protected] writes:
> > Because until we did a science experiment on inertia, I did not knowBut - don't you realize that while you were doing that experiment something
> > what it was. I would never have pointed it out in day to day
> > living.
else was missed? There is ALWAYS something else they'd be doing if you hadn't
made them do what you wanted them to do. Inertia would have come up some
other time, some other place. My kids probably know more interesting things
to say about it than I do <G>. I never planned an "inertia" experiment for
them, to make sure they knew about it. I took them to science museums though.
But even THERE I didn't make sure they learned about inertia. They could have
gone to the same science museum 20 times and ignored that topic altogether
because they were busy with other stuff. EVEN THEN it would have come up
someplace else. For sure. Some time. MAYBE NOT UNTIL THEY ARE 20 years old,
though. No guarantees that there won't be "gaps." I'm just not all that
worried about gaps. EVERYBODY has them - it doesn't matter.
--pamS
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