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Claudia
Sherri-Lee
{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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Virginia Glasser
Hey Claudia you sound like me. I also use the Attached Parent philosophy for
my son and do for my 12 year old too. My 15 year old wasn't so lucky because
I was young and dumb and knew nothing about AP. Well I wasn't totally
clueless...she did co-sleep, and was breastfed, but everything else was not
AP.
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From: Claudia [mailto:claudia2@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 4:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Réf. : [unschoolingbasics] since I started saying yes....
Sherri-Lee
{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say
from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And
I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her
age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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my son and do for my 12 year old too. My 15 year old wasn't so lucky because
I was young and dumb and knew nothing about AP. Well I wasn't totally
clueless...she did co-sleep, and was breastfed, but everything else was not
AP.
Virginia Glasser
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Ask me how you can earn free stamping or scrapbooking supplies!
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From: Claudia [mailto:claudia2@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 4:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Réf. : [unschoolingbasics] since I started saying yes....
Sherri-Lee
{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say
from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And
I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her
age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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Cheyenne Cain
Hello there. I'm new to the list and I'm having a wee bit of trouble deciphering the abv. you guys use. Would someone be so kind as to list a few of them for me.
Also do any of you have older children who aren't reading or doing math up to what ever standard? My daughter is 10 and isn't doing either and her peers are. (Peers that are in public school mind you). It doesn't bother me for the most part but it would be nice to know I'm not alone because sometimes I certainly feel it.
Thank you
Cheyenne
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Also do any of you have older children who aren't reading or doing math up to what ever standard? My daughter is 10 and isn't doing either and her peers are. (Peers that are in public school mind you). It doesn't bother me for the most part but it would be nice to know I'm not alone because sometimes I certainly feel it.
Thank you
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> Hello there. I'm new to the list and I'm having a wee bit of trouble deciphering the abv. you guys use. Would someone be so kind as to list a few of them for me.I'm fairly new to this list as well, but haven't found any acronyms that aren't familiar. Are you talking about things like LOL (laughing out loud), DH (dear, darling, d@mn husband), SO (significant other), BTW (by the way), or are there other acronyms I'm missing? LOL!
>Math math math. It seems to be the one thing that most of us stress over the most. How do you figure that she isn't where they are? Is it because she can't rattle off the multiplication table or is she just not putting 1 and 1 together and getting 2, literally? There are some great puzzle books and magazines out that have wonderful ways of playing with numbers while not really doing math. My kids are a whiz with fractions because we use them in cooking all the time. We have a favorite recipe for cookies that we make each Yule (and now for hurricanes LOL!) that has 2/3, 1/4, 1/8, 1/2, 3/4, and 1/3 of various wholes used in it. When we make these cookies we are always doubling and tripling the recipe (we would quadruple but I don't have a bowl that big LOL!) I'm sure if I were to sit them down with a sheet of math problems they would look at me like I was titched in the head, yet they can figure out how much pepper we need for the cookies if we are making a triple batch of cookies and it calls for 1/8 t. even when the measuring spoon doesn't have a 3/8 t. slot (I have sliding measuring spoons). It's "fun math" without having to think of it like math.
> Also do any of you have older children who aren't reading or doing math up to what ever standard?
I was at B&N today and was looking at some math puzzle books. I didn't get them only for the reason that they have the appearance of math rather than just puzzles. We subscribe to Puzzle magazine and work on it through the month. There are lots of fun puzzles in there that make you use that "mathematical" side of your brain without feeling like you are doing math. Music is another way to stimulate the mathematical parts of your brain. Just listening to it can help. Creating it is even better.
Some kids just need a bit longer to figure out things than others. And just because the neighbor kids have been drilled with useless math facts doesn't mean that they really understand what they are being "taught."
Michelle
Cheyenne Cain
Thanks Michele. I needed that boost. What magazine is it that you subsribe to?
Cheyenne
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Sherri-Lee Pressman
Hi Claudia,
Thanks for the support. We have follow AP thinking since Hannah was born and
I have worked hard on following a gentle discipline approach as well. I have
not always been successful but I keep trying. I was raised in a punitive
home and so some of that old learning slips in, but I keep working on it. I
have never done a time out with her and have only spanked her twice which I
so ashamed of and apologized to her for afterwards.
Anyway thanks again,
Sherri-Lee
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-----Original Message-----
From: Claudia [mailto:claudia2@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Réf. : [unschoolingbasics] since I started saying yes....
Sherri-Lee
{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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Thanks for the support. We have follow AP thinking since Hannah was born and
I have worked hard on following a gentle discipline approach as well. I have
not always been successful but I keep trying. I was raised in a punitive
home and so some of that old learning slips in, but I keep working on it. I
have never done a time out with her and have only spanked her twice which I
so ashamed of and apologized to her for afterwards.
Anyway thanks again,
Sherri-Lee
Need safe and natural health products?
http://www.aloeessence.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Claudia [mailto:claudia2@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Réf. : [unschoolingbasics] since I started saying yes....
Sherri-Lee
{{{hugs}}}. I'm new at this unschooling approach also, and I can't say from
experience if it will work or not, but I have heared often that things get
bad first when you start unschooling. So, yes, I guess there IS hope :)))
My youngest dd is 4.5 y/o. also, but our background is very different,
because with her I used AP from the beginning, and positive discipline, so
we don't function with punishements, time outs, and spankings at all. And I
can say that Positive Discipline DOES work. My relationship with my dd is
very different from the one I had with her sibblings when they were her age
(they are teens, almost adults now).
Claudia
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pam sorooshian
>> Also do any of you have older children who aren't reading or doingI've known and now know kids not reading at 10 or 11 or 12 years old.
>> math up to what ever standard?
It is within the range of "normal" for kids allowed to do what is
natural for them. The only advice I'd give would be to be sure to read
TO them a lot and provide books on cd/tape. No reason for them not to
be "well read" just because they aren't reading for themselves, yet.
-pam
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