Sears Family

Hello,

What has been people's impressions of the Life Learning magazine? I'm considering a subscription, and wonder whether the content will be a good support for my confidence as an unschooler.

Thanks!

Michele

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Pam Sorooshian

I like it - find it inspiring and interesting. I like Live Free Learn
Free a bit more, so far (it is still new). I'm definitely biased
because they just ran an issue with the best article on the benefits of
television and computer and video game playing I've ever read (written
by my good friend Dan Vilter, by the way), whereas Life Learning ran
anti-tv stuff not too long ago (thanks to people here, the "other side"
was added to balance the negative). Both magazines are worth the money
- I get both.

-pam


On Apr 26, 2005, at 5:30 AM, Sears Family wrote:

> What has been people's impressions of the Life Learning magazine? I'm
> considering a subscription, and wonder whether the content will be a
> good support for my confidence as an unschooler.

Danielle Conger

Pam Sorooshian wrote:

>I like it - find it inspiring and interesting. I like Live Free Learn
>Free a bit more, so far (it is still new). I'm definitely biased
>because they just ran an issue with the best article on the benefits of
>television and computer and video game playing I've ever read (written
>by my good friend Dan Vilter, by the way), whereas Life Learning ran
>anti-tv stuff not too long ago (thanks to people here, the "other side"
>was added to balance the negative). Both magazines are worth the money
>- I get both.
>
>
I like both and find them slightly different in flavor. I find LL more
theoretical, non-coercive and TCS (taking children seriously) while
LFLF, though new, seems to be more practical, homespun kind of stuff.
Interestingly, the editorial policies seem to reflect this in a way: LL
doesn't like to use the term "unschooling" while LFLF doesn't like to
use the term "non-coercive parenting."

Just my own sense of the differences, for what they're worth.

--
~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

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"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha

Sears Family

Pam wrote:
>
> I like it - find it inspiring and interesting. I like Live Free Learn
> Free a bit more, so far (it is still new). I'm definitely biased
> because they just ran an issue with the best article on the benefits of
> television and computer and video game playing I've ever read (written
> by my good friend Dan Vilter, by the way), whereas Life Learning ran
> anti-tv stuff not too long ago (thanks to people here, the "other side"
> was added to balance the negative).

Hi Pam,

I noticed the anti-tv/video in the issue I happened upon with Life
Learning - and since this is one of my weaker points, I'm glad there's
another choice in magazines. I've checked out the Live Free Learn Free, and
will likely start with that one! Thank-you!

Michele

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Sorooshian <pamsoroosh@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:31:20 -0700
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Life learning magazine

Both magazines are worth the money
- I get both.

-pam


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Me Too!

Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
October 6-9, 2005
http://liveandlearnconference.org

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<< Both magazines are worth the money
- I get both.
-=--pam
--=-=-=-=-

-=-Me Too!
-=-Kelly Lovejoy

Me also too.
And I think I'm going to be in the next issue (or the issue after next) of
both of them. I wrote a new article on my kids learning to read for Live Free,
Learn Free, and a transcript of the radio interview I did for "radio free
school" is to be published in Life Learning magazine, submitted by Beatrice Edwa
Ekoko who interviewed me and edited it into a half hour show. I don't think
the published version will be all of what's here:
http://sandradodd.com/radio
but what the editor considered the best parts.

Sandra

wifetovegman2002

--- In [email protected], "Sears Family"
<brewstersears@s...> wrote:
>
> What has been people's impressions of the Life Learning magazine?
I'm considering a subscription, and wonder whether the content will be
a good support for my confidence as an unschooler.
>

I like it, but it has a LOT of ads for curriculum and schools. Life
Learning is very nice, though, and I enjoy it.

I prefer Live Free Learn Free because I haven't seen any ads in there
for anything like that. I may be partial since they have printed two
or three of my own articles though. ;-)

~Susan McGlohn
http://radicalchristianunschool.homestead.com/index.html

Julie W

>
> Pam wrote:
> >
> > I like it - find it inspiring and interesting. I like Live Free Learn
> > Free a bit more, so far (it is still new). I'm definitely biased
> > because they just ran an issue with the best article on the benefits of
> > television and computer and video game playing I've ever read (written
> > by my good friend Dan Vilter, by the way), whereas Life Learning ran
> > anti-tv stuff not too long ago (thanks to people here, the "other side"
> > was added to balance the negative).
>
> Hi Pam,
>
> I noticed the anti-tv/video in the issue I happened upon with Life
> Learning - and since this is one of my weaker points, I'm glad there's
> another choice in magazines. I've checked out the Live Free Learn
> Free, and
> will likely start with that one! Thank-you!
>
> Michele

You can check out Life Learning online:
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/read.html
click on the issue you want to see and it downloads---the whole thing.
You can read any issue but the current one.


--

Julie W

http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/



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