Bonni Sollars

But it is not so interesting if they email eachother and I don't get all
the thoughts and inspirations.
Bonni

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Random mutterings about current rumblings -

**Cindy - that was a comment for Teri, not you.**

Comment for the rest of the list, not this poster who is on her way out the
door anyway - if you really mean a comment to be for one person only, please
please please don't post it to the list, send it by private email. It's
incredibly rude to carry on a private conversation in a crowded room like
this and expect people not to join in.

**Just keep moving in the unschooling direction!**

Well, yes, but newcomers and especially those who don't intend to become
unschoolers but only to borrow ideas and energy ought not to be encouraged to
offer advice antithetical to unschooling on an unschooling list. If folks are
here for ideas they might want to listen awhile before telling the oldtimers
they're doing it all wrong.

Unschooling except for math or unschooling except requiring writing isn't
unschooling. It's thinking about unschooling, admiring unschooling, playing
around with unschooling, wading, but it's not unschooling, and calling it
that just confuses people.

If I eat vegetarian meals every day but Saturday, I'm not a vegetarian, and
I'm only being dishonest with myself to say I am.

Deborah in IL

Bridget E Coffman

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:24:00 EDT DACunefare@... writes:
>
>
> Well, yes, but newcomers and especially those who don't intend to
become
> unschoolers but only to borrow ideas and energy ought not to be
encouraged to
> offer advice antithetical to unschooling on an unschooling list. If
folks are
> here for ideas they might want to listen awhile before telling the
oldtimers
> they're doing it all wrong.
>

All I did when this started was offer my variation of unplugging the TV.
And a statement that we had to sit down and work out some quantitative
guidelines together. I have since been told that:

1. I am not unschooling
2. I am being dishonest with my kids (even though they know what I do)
3. I don't belong on this list
4. That I am telling YOU that you are doing it wrong. (Ihaven't said
word one about what I think of what YOU are doing.)
5. In a round about way, that I don't offer my kids enough options.
(even when I was bedridden, they had TONS of options. My girls used
them, my son did not.)
6. That I did not do what I said I would when I joined which was: "I'll
listen for a day or two before I jump all over you all!" I never said I
would not talk or throw out my thoughts in general. I said I would not
jump all over you. I haven't . . . yet. Well, mostly, the quote from
unschooling.com may have been close.

Bridget

~~~~If electricity comes from electrons...does that mean that morality
comes from morons?~~~~
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell;
And by and by my Soul returned to me,
And answered, "I Myself am Heaven and Hell." -- The Rubaiyat