Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Addiction to TV and Video Games... (alittle long)
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-=-Unschooling homes should have a variety of things
going on and available to choose.-=-
In the Junior Girl Scout Handbook I had in the 1960's there was a page with drawings of a meeting. Each patrol was doing something different and interesting, all in the same room. That became one of my fantasy ideal situations. Sometimes at our house it's that way, with extra people over and three or four different things happening that participants can move betwee. A week ago there was a Sunday night when some kids were playing Karaoke Revolution, some were playing Donkey Konga in another room, a couple were "building decks" (designing a good deck for a CCG game of some sort) and downstairs two were playing an older SNES game.
It's not the first time it has happened, though it's usually two or three "stations," rather than four, but in my own mind, that handbook illustration comes to my mind and I count it a happy success.
I had other book illustrations I used to just look at for a moment of happy escape when I was a kid. Some were full color, full page, really wonderful things. Some were Victorian woodcuts with medieval themes and I loved those. But this plain, modern, one- or two-colored girl scout handbook bit was attractive to me beyond any original intent of the artist.
I love it when we can give one of our kids a really good choice, not just "go do something fun or stay home." It might be "If you stay home, Renee and Julie are coming over to watch movies, but some of us are going to this or that (music/park/movie/dinner), and often they get to do some of both.
Sandra
going on and available to choose.-=-
In the Junior Girl Scout Handbook I had in the 1960's there was a page with drawings of a meeting. Each patrol was doing something different and interesting, all in the same room. That became one of my fantasy ideal situations. Sometimes at our house it's that way, with extra people over and three or four different things happening that participants can move betwee. A week ago there was a Sunday night when some kids were playing Karaoke Revolution, some were playing Donkey Konga in another room, a couple were "building decks" (designing a good deck for a CCG game of some sort) and downstairs two were playing an older SNES game.
It's not the first time it has happened, though it's usually two or three "stations," rather than four, but in my own mind, that handbook illustration comes to my mind and I count it a happy success.
I had other book illustrations I used to just look at for a moment of happy escape when I was a kid. Some were full color, full page, really wonderful things. Some were Victorian woodcuts with medieval themes and I loved those. But this plain, modern, one- or two-colored girl scout handbook bit was attractive to me beyond any original intent of the artist.
I love it when we can give one of our kids a really good choice, not just "go do something fun or stay home." It might be "If you stay home, Renee and Julie are coming over to watch movies, but some of us are going to this or that (music/park/movie/dinner), and often they get to do some of both.
Sandra