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About unschooling :)
I have been reading the book The Teenage Liberation Handbook. I am sure that
everyone else has already read it as I always kept hearing about how great it
was. Then I ran across it on ebay for a $1 and jumped on it. I love it. I
wish, wish, wish that I would have read it when I was 12 or 13. That was when
my BAD school years really started. I wonder how different my life would have
been and my husband's too. As I read I began to remember the times in our
unschooling past where I became concerned about whether the kids were
learning enough. I thought I was a good parent, wanting them to have great
adult lives someday. To be a success. Now I see that what I was thinking was
that they would not have great adult lives if they were not making lots of
money in some super career. I wanted them to make lots of money so their
lives would be easier. I was limiting my children. My husband is in
construction. We do not have a lot of money. My family has been in
construction since they used mules with the machinery. (which is something I
would still like to see), I have never know lots of money. Have I always
related that to failure? When I was a little kids I always thought that my
Dad had the greatest job in the whole world. He owned and ran those big neat
machines. I was so proud. I had a wonderful (not!) teacher in jr high that
loved to tell me how I would never amount to anything, be a ditch digger all
my life. Boy I hated him. Coming from a family of "ditch diggers" he was
linking that with failure. Great huh! The Teenage Liberation Handbook has
helped me to see that whatever, and I mean whatever my kids want to be as
adults is ok. I so wish I would not had so much emotional garbage inside when
I started raising my kids. I would have been a better parent. And it came
from public school. Twelve long years of gabage collecting
Just thinking aloud...
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