Dawn Falbe

Hi All:

My boys love being out in the mud... We have a very small back garden
half of which is taken up with one of those huge wood climbing
structures (one of our purchases because of homeschooling, so the kids
had a park in their back garden) and the other half is basically mud
now. The boys are out pretty much every day now that it's cool (even
when it was hot they are out there) looking for buried treasure. DH has
a fit when they are out there because he gets to clean it all up.
Usually mud ends up on all the walls, Zak turns on the hose and the
entire back yard is flooded. Personally I have no problem with this. I
put them on my back and carry them to the bath when they are done
(leaving the clean up for DH of course)....

I'm so glad to hear this is a "normal" thing for kids to do when they
are unschooled. I keep thinking I have to provide all kinds of things
for them to do and again that's about me not them.

We have been talking about sending Zak to an alternative school. He
went for 1 hour with me to visit the other day. The school is an
unschooling school with with other kids (some of who were in our home
schooling group)... He seemed to enjoy it and then casually in
conversation last night (at 1am this morning actually) my husband
announces that when he was talking to Zak he asked him whether he liked
the idea of going to that school and he replied "no I'd rather be at
home otherwise I'd really miss my family, even if I can do what I want
to do there, I would miss mommy"....

Needless to say this news at 1am from DH in casual conversation was
something that I tossed and turned about all night.

Zak and I are off to see a Shakespeare play this afternoon, put on by
our home schooling group.

I am so conflicted about how to balance my work (have my own business
from home) and unschooling the kids. Does this conflict ever go away?

Dawn
Tucson, AZ

Tia Leschke

> I am so conflicted about how to balance my work (have my own business
> from home) and unschooling the kids. Does this conflict ever go away?

Is it possible to send him to this school part time? If he could go a day
or two, or half days, or something like that, he might be comfortable away
from you for that amount of time. Or can you trade time with other
unschooling parents? Or can you work mostly when his dad is home to look
after him?
Tia

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In a message dated 10/11/2002 12:37:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
leschke@... writes:


> Or can you trade time with other
> unschooling parents?

Maybe you could find a homeschooled teen to be a "mother's helper" a few
hours per week. She or he could keep the kids occupied while you could get
work done.
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