Sandra Dodd

I wrote a deschooling article years back, and recommended a short list of movies.

Here's that list with my note from the 2002 article:

Mary Poppins
Heidi (with Shirley Temple)
The Sound of Music
Searching for Bobby Fischer ("Innocent Moves" is the British title)
Ferris Bueller�s Day Off

You don�t need to think too hard about those movies. No tests, analysis or reports. Just let the images and ideas flow through and over you. Come back to them sometime, when you�ve been unschooling a while.
Today, Pam Laricchia sent out a newsletter with a really great deschooling take on Ferris Bueller's Day off:
http://livingjoyfully.ca/newsletter/archive/Issue-8-Feb2013.htm

Anyone who hasn't already subscribed to Pam Larichia's unschooling newsletter can do so here:
http://livingjoyfully.ca/newsletter/index.htm#archive
and there's a link there, too, to her Exploring Unschooling e-mail introduction.

Sandra



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Lyla Wolfenstein

another good deschooling movie is "accepted"


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:

> I wrote a deschooling article years back, and recommended a short list of
> movies.
>
> Here's that list with my note from the 2002 article:
>
> Mary Poppins
> Heidi (with Shirley Temple)
> The Sound of Music
> Searching for Bobby Fischer ("Innocent Moves" is the British title)
> Ferris Bueller�s Day Off
>
> You don�t need to think too hard about those movies. No tests, analysis or
> reports. Just let the images and ideas flow through and over you. Come back
> to them sometime, when you�ve been unschooling a while.
> Today, Pam Laricchia sent out a newsletter with a really great deschooling
> take on Ferris Bueller's Day off:
> http://livingjoyfully.ca/newsletter/archive/Issue-8-Feb2013.htm
>
> Anyone who hasn't already subscribed to Pam Larichia's unschooling
> newsletter can do so here:
> http://livingjoyfully.ca/newsletter/index.htm#archive
> and there's a link there, too, to her Exploring Unschooling e-mail
> introduction.
>
> Sandra
>
>
>
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>
>
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Virginia Warren

Another, �School of Rock�.
In one scene of the movie, the principal of the school (Joan Cusack) is
being confronted by a crowd of angry parents and she says: �Let me assure
you that nothing is more important to us than for you *to feel* your
children
are in a safe and secure environment.� (emphasis added)

Virginia


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Sandra Dodd

Nice quote, Virginia. :-)

School of Rock and Accepted are mentioned here:

http://sandradodd.com/t/movies/
and that's easy to find from
http://sandradodd.com/movies

Watching movies can be healing and soothing, and watching them with children is bonding and helps you learn more about each other.

There are ideas in there for following trails, too—letting one movie lead to another, through favorite actors, or writers, or directors, or soundtracks, or topics.

Sandra