What unschooling is DEFINITELY NOT
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In a message dated 3/24/2005 11:34:07 AM Mountain Standard Time,
rroseacademy@... writes:
I grew up eating what I wanted when I wanted. I was the most
unschooled child you ever saw, simply because of circumstance of
growing up in an abusive household. I had to figure out how to
survive.
Uh...
No. You are NOT the most unschooled child I've ever seen.
You're not a child, so get over it. If you didn't learn anything about your
body's real needs, that's unfortunate, but learn it now and LIVE it now.
The most unschooled children I have seen eat what they think they need when
they're hungry, not "what they want when they want." They don't eat just to
do it.
THe most unschooled children I've ever seen NEVER had to "figure out how to
survive." They are attended to by adults who have dedicated their lives to
helping them grow up in the most ideal way possible.
To equate having been neglected to being "the most unschooled" is so far
beyond the bounds of the definition of unschooling on which this list operates
and the guideline to consider, before posting, whether your post will help
others understand unschooling that I don't even want to drive out of the
ballpark and go and measure how far out of the neighborhood it went.
-=- just eat
another snickers and I perk right up. Is it logical? no. Should I
do that to my body? no. Does it make me feel good? no. But it
tastes good and that's the way I have always eaten. -=-
You will not help your children by modelling that.
Do you want to help your children or not?
You will not help your children learn to decide by controlling them.
-=- I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need -=-
By your own account, you don't even know what YOUR body needs.
It's highly likely you're wrong about what theirs need.
-=-I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need and
when they are older they will have that pattern set into them that
they know they feel like crap -=-
WHAT?
Does
not
even
make
SENSE.
Sandra
Today, I usually make bad food choice. not because sweets
were held back, or because I didn't get enough mc. donalds when I
wanted it, but because I have a taste for it. I don't care that I
was so tired today because I forgot to eat yesterday. I just eat
another snickers and I perk right up. Is it logical? no. Should I
do that to my body? no. Does it make me feel good? no. But it
tastes good and that's the way I have always eaten. I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need and
when they are older they will have that pattern set into them that
they know they feel like crap so they better do something about it.
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rroseacademy@... writes:
I grew up eating what I wanted when I wanted. I was the most
unschooled child you ever saw, simply because of circumstance of
growing up in an abusive household. I had to figure out how to
survive.
Uh...
No. You are NOT the most unschooled child I've ever seen.
You're not a child, so get over it. If you didn't learn anything about your
body's real needs, that's unfortunate, but learn it now and LIVE it now.
The most unschooled children I have seen eat what they think they need when
they're hungry, not "what they want when they want." They don't eat just to
do it.
THe most unschooled children I've ever seen NEVER had to "figure out how to
survive." They are attended to by adults who have dedicated their lives to
helping them grow up in the most ideal way possible.
To equate having been neglected to being "the most unschooled" is so far
beyond the bounds of the definition of unschooling on which this list operates
and the guideline to consider, before posting, whether your post will help
others understand unschooling that I don't even want to drive out of the
ballpark and go and measure how far out of the neighborhood it went.
-=- just eat
another snickers and I perk right up. Is it logical? no. Should I
do that to my body? no. Does it make me feel good? no. But it
tastes good and that's the way I have always eaten. -=-
You will not help your children by modelling that.
Do you want to help your children or not?
You will not help your children learn to decide by controlling them.
-=- I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need -=-
By your own account, you don't even know what YOUR body needs.
It's highly likely you're wrong about what theirs need.
-=-I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need and
when they are older they will have that pattern set into them that
they know they feel like crap -=-
WHAT?
Does
not
even
make
SENSE.
Sandra
Today, I usually make bad food choice. not because sweets
were held back, or because I didn't get enough mc. donalds when I
wanted it, but because I have a taste for it. I don't care that I
was so tired today because I forgot to eat yesterday. I just eat
another snickers and I perk right up. Is it logical? no. Should I
do that to my body? no. Does it make me feel good? no. But it
tastes good and that's the way I have always eaten. I want my kids
to have choices within the limits that I know their bodies need and
when they are older they will have that pattern set into them that
they know they feel like crap so they better do something about it.
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