unschooling abroad
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I got this in my private mail. She's recently moved abroad and is
worried about her children's learning.
Anyone else want to add to my answer? I'd be happy to forward them on
to her.
-----Original Message-----
here's my latest worry on what I am trying to do. my husband works
for ibm, we are traveling all over the world due to all the math etc...
that he got from school and college. can unschooled kids support their
families when they grow up without the same education say that my
husband got.... do you know what I mean....??? I am struggling with
the you start at point A on math and go up, and up etc.... and if you
don't how will a person have what we have. Then I think of all the
drop outs etc....who became successful.... I guess it's just fears
coming up.
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Are you a member of any of the yahoo unschooling groups?
[email protected] would be a good one for you. That way
you could ask this question and get *many* more responses that *just*
the one I can give you. Not only that, but it would be a daily dose of
how this works in all sorts of families.
I have been several times to Europe. My older son (Cameron), at 18 has
been to Australia, throughout continental Europe , and England &
Scotland already. Right now he's in Vermont. Two weeks ago, he was in
New Mexico and Arizona. Two weeks before *that* he was in Oregon. He
doesn't work for IBM. He's just recently become an unschooled adult!
He'll be in NYC in November for a week while studying drumming. We
don't have all of next year's travel plans ironed out---but we know
he'll be on the road.
Although I think it's great that your family is getting to travel due
to your husband's job, he could also have had a job in theatre or in
journalism and gotten just as much, if not more. possibilities to
travel. Cameron's drumming will eventually send him around the world, I
am sure. He loves to travel!
I've gotten to travel without all that much school math. Cameron had
even LESS math and has seen even more of the world that I have!
Certainly you must NOT start at point A and go up in math! Duncan (my
ten year old) understood algebra and some calculus before he understood
division just because of the computer game, Zoombini's! Logic and
sequencing come naturally by living and analyzing---NOT by doing
worksheet in a "logical" manner.
Your husband chose the math he did because he LIKES it. He's GOOD at
it. The numbers were "calling" him. You may find that numbers say
*nothing* special to your children. They may find words or animals or
rocks or society more fascinating. THOSE things may take your children
places. OR they may find that travel doesn't suit them, and they may
want to stay planted. That won't mean that their lives aren't as rich
or as interesting---just different.
Fears will keep showing up until you make hat paradigm shift that says
you TRUST your children and that you TRUST the process of learning.
That's what unschooling is all about---TRUST RESPECT PATIENCE.
~Kelly
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worried about her children's learning.
Anyone else want to add to my answer? I'd be happy to forward them on
to her.
-----Original Message-----
here's my latest worry on what I am trying to do. my husband works
for ibm, we are traveling all over the world due to all the math etc...
that he got from school and college. can unschooled kids support their
families when they grow up without the same education say that my
husband got.... do you know what I mean....??? I am struggling with
the you start at point A on math and go up, and up etc.... and if you
don't how will a person have what we have. Then I think of all the
drop outs etc....who became successful.... I guess it's just fears
coming up.
-=-=-=-=-=
Are you a member of any of the yahoo unschooling groups?
[email protected] would be a good one for you. That way
you could ask this question and get *many* more responses that *just*
the one I can give you. Not only that, but it would be a daily dose of
how this works in all sorts of families.
I have been several times to Europe. My older son (Cameron), at 18 has
been to Australia, throughout continental Europe , and England &
Scotland already. Right now he's in Vermont. Two weeks ago, he was in
New Mexico and Arizona. Two weeks before *that* he was in Oregon. He
doesn't work for IBM. He's just recently become an unschooled adult!
He'll be in NYC in November for a week while studying drumming. We
don't have all of next year's travel plans ironed out---but we know
he'll be on the road.
Although I think it's great that your family is getting to travel due
to your husband's job, he could also have had a job in theatre or in
journalism and gotten just as much, if not more. possibilities to
travel. Cameron's drumming will eventually send him around the world, I
am sure. He loves to travel!
I've gotten to travel without all that much school math. Cameron had
even LESS math and has seen even more of the world that I have!
Certainly you must NOT start at point A and go up in math! Duncan (my
ten year old) understood algebra and some calculus before he understood
division just because of the computer game, Zoombini's! Logic and
sequencing come naturally by living and analyzing---NOT by doing
worksheet in a "logical" manner.
Your husband chose the math he did because he LIKES it. He's GOOD at
it. The numbers were "calling" him. You may find that numbers say
*nothing* special to your children. They may find words or animals or
rocks or society more fascinating. THOSE things may take your children
places. OR they may find that travel doesn't suit them, and they may
want to stay planted. That won't mean that their lives aren't as rich
or as interesting---just different.
Fears will keep showing up until you make hat paradigm shift that says
you TRUST your children and that you TRUST the process of learning.
That's what unschooling is all about---TRUST RESPECT PATIENCE.
~Kelly
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Solé
Am 27.09.2006 um 22:18 schrieb kbcdlovejo@...:
fear that they won't "learn enough" to succeed in life, might like to
hear that there are universities all over the world who take people
regardless of having graduated in high school. One of them is the
Open University in England, for example, which is a distance
university (www.open.ac.uk) and I am sure there are more all around
the world. And they don't care at all what kind of graduation you
have and you can do it next to your job or full time or whatever,
they even have an "Open Degree", in which you choose whatever you
want of all the courses they offer and you just have a "Bachelor"
without any specifications, which just states what kind of courses
you have had. Its just a "prove" that you can work scientifically.
So if the unschooled kid WANTS to study or so, he can still do
something like that and doesn't need a graduation from high school.
I find that thought very soothing when I worry if she will "learn
enough". In the future, it will be up to her anyway if she wants to
study or do whatever, so we can leave that decission for the future –
where it belongs and not worry about "destroying" a possible path –
which is why we send kids to school, namely, "just in case".
Johanna
> I got this in my private mail. She's recently moved abroad and isI think what could releave people who kind of like unschooling but
> worried about her children's learning.
>
> Anyone else want to add to my answer? I'd be happy to forward them on
> to her.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> here's my latest worry on what I am trying to do. my husband works
> for ibm, we are traveling all over the world due to all the math
> etc...
> that he got from school and college. can unschooled kids support
> their
> families when they grow up without the same education say that my
> husband got.... do you know what I mean....??? I am struggling with
> the you start at point A on math and go up, and up etc.... and if you
> don't how will a person have what we have. Then I think of all the
> drop outs etc....who became successful.... I guess it's just fears
> coming up.
>
fear that they won't "learn enough" to succeed in life, might like to
hear that there are universities all over the world who take people
regardless of having graduated in high school. One of them is the
Open University in England, for example, which is a distance
university (www.open.ac.uk) and I am sure there are more all around
the world. And they don't care at all what kind of graduation you
have and you can do it next to your job or full time or whatever,
they even have an "Open Degree", in which you choose whatever you
want of all the courses they offer and you just have a "Bachelor"
without any specifications, which just states what kind of courses
you have had. Its just a "prove" that you can work scientifically.
So if the unschooled kid WANTS to study or so, he can still do
something like that and doesn't need a graduation from high school.
I find that thought very soothing when I worry if she will "learn
enough". In the future, it will be up to her anyway if she wants to
study or do whatever, so we can leave that decission for the future –
where it belongs and not worry about "destroying" a possible path –
which is why we send kids to school, namely, "just in case".
Johanna
Michelle Leifur Reid
> Your husband chose the math he did because he LIKES it. He's GOOD atKelly, that is a wonderful answer! (And a great addition to the
> it. The numbers were "calling" him. You may find that numbers say
> *nothing* special to your children.
carnival this month!!)
Michelle