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Saturday morning, I had gotten up at 7:30 to wake Kirby up for work. I made
him pancakes while he was in the shower.
Holly had stayed with friends overnight, and I was prepared to pick her up
after lunch and take her to the first rehearsal meeting for an avante-garde
performance of the Nutcracker. Marty was asleep, having stayed up late
playing games with friends.
After I took Kirby to work, I came online to see someone telling me to get
offline and go unschool my kids.
Marty's friend called and I told him to come on over and wake Marty up if he
wanted to. They ended up spending the rest of the day together, at our house.
I took Holly to the dance meeting (three hours, half of which the parents
were excused to leave, and I went to buy Kirby a wallet because he's going to
an anime convention next weekend and could use one). She decided after all
not to participate, which was a relief to me since the practices would have
been four nights a week a long way from our house. We took another girl
home, and came home to get ready to go to a Pictionary-tournament birthday
party 20 miles away (an adult party, mostly lesbians, only one other kid, but
all adults from our house went; teens declined--Marty stayed home alone and
Kirby was at D&D).
We tried calling Kirby but he had given another friend's number accidently
(pretty funny in the end, among all the kids, and ended up not mattering
much).
Came home, I went to the D&D game, Kirby and two of those kids came home with
me; it was 11:30 p.m.
I got up about 2:00 to see how they were doing and remind them to be quiet
(they weren't being really loud anyway). Kirby was already asleep, the rest
said. That was good because at 8:30 Kirby had to be at an all day bokudo
workshop (karate, weapons). So I woke him up, again, at 7:30, and got him to
the dojo.
That made 24 hours.
The only thing in that time that wasn't pretty warm and productive was
someone here criticizing me for being online instead of unschooling.
Sandra
him pancakes while he was in the shower.
Holly had stayed with friends overnight, and I was prepared to pick her up
after lunch and take her to the first rehearsal meeting for an avante-garde
performance of the Nutcracker. Marty was asleep, having stayed up late
playing games with friends.
After I took Kirby to work, I came online to see someone telling me to get
offline and go unschool my kids.
Marty's friend called and I told him to come on over and wake Marty up if he
wanted to. They ended up spending the rest of the day together, at our house.
I took Holly to the dance meeting (three hours, half of which the parents
were excused to leave, and I went to buy Kirby a wallet because he's going to
an anime convention next weekend and could use one). She decided after all
not to participate, which was a relief to me since the practices would have
been four nights a week a long way from our house. We took another girl
home, and came home to get ready to go to a Pictionary-tournament birthday
party 20 miles away (an adult party, mostly lesbians, only one other kid, but
all adults from our house went; teens declined--Marty stayed home alone and
Kirby was at D&D).
We tried calling Kirby but he had given another friend's number accidently
(pretty funny in the end, among all the kids, and ended up not mattering
much).
Came home, I went to the D&D game, Kirby and two of those kids came home with
me; it was 11:30 p.m.
I got up about 2:00 to see how they were doing and remind them to be quiet
(they weren't being really loud anyway). Kirby was already asleep, the rest
said. That was good because at 8:30 Kirby had to be at an all day bokudo
workshop (karate, weapons). So I woke him up, again, at 7:30, and got him to
the dojo.
That made 24 hours.
The only thing in that time that wasn't pretty warm and productive was
someone here criticizing me for being online instead of unschooling.
Sandra
Sharon Rudd
Wow!....and you can document it too!! I suppose it is
the left over social anthropologist leanings, but I do
so much enjoy peeking into other people's lives, or
maybe I am plain nosey.......
Thanks, Sharon
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the left over social anthropologist leanings, but I do
so much enjoy peeking into other people's lives, or
maybe I am plain nosey.......
Thanks, Sharon
--- SandraDodd@... wrote:
> Saturday morning, I had gotten up at 7:30 to wake__________________________________________________
> Kirby up for work. I made
> him pancakes while he was in the shower.
>
> Holly had stayed with friends overnight, and I was
> prepared to pick her up
> after lunch and take her to the first rehearsal
> meeting for an avante-garde
> performance of the Nutcracker. Marty was asleep,
> having stayed up late
> playing games with friends.
>
> After I took Kirby to work, I came online to see
> someone telling me to get
> offline and go unschool my kids.
>
> Marty's friend called and I told him to come on over
> and wake Marty up if he
> wanted to. They ended up spending the rest of the
> day together, at our house.
>
> I took Holly to the dance meeting (three hours, half
> of which the parents
> were excused to leave, and I went to buy Kirby a
> wallet because he's going to
> an anime convention next weekend and could use one).
> She decided after all
> not to participate, which was a relief to me since
> the practices would have
> been four nights a week a long way from our house.
> We took another girl
> home, and came home to get ready to go to a
> Pictionary-tournament birthday
> party 20 miles away (an adult party, mostly
> lesbians, only one other kid, but
> all adults from our house went; teens
> declined--Marty stayed home alone and
> Kirby was at D&D).
>
> We tried calling Kirby but he had given another
> friend's number accidently
> (pretty funny in the end, among all the kids, and
> ended up not mattering
> much).
>
> Came home, I went to the D&D game, Kirby and two of
> those kids came home with
> me; it was 11:30 p.m.
>
> I got up about 2:00 to see how they were doing and
> remind them to be quiet
> (they weren't being really loud anyway). Kirby was
> already asleep, the rest
> said. That was good because at 8:30 Kirby had to be
> at an all day bokudo
> workshop (karate, weapons). So I woke him up,
> again, at 7:30, and got him to
> the dojo.
>
> That made 24 hours.
>
> The only thing in that time that wasn't pretty warm
> and productive was
> someone here criticizing me for being online instead
> of unschooling.
>
> Sandra
>
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I've added a couple of typical days to my collection here:
http://sandradodd.com/typical
One is actually one of mine (bottom left) but one is a very sweet one about
pi and arabic calligraphy which was posted on www.unschooling.com. So those of
you who read there might already have seen it, but for others I thought it
was worth seeing. And that's Becca's, the top on the right/main column.
Sandra
http://sandradodd.com/typical
One is actually one of mine (bottom left) but one is a very sweet one about
pi and arabic calligraphy which was posted on www.unschooling.com. So those of
you who read there might already have seen it, but for others I thought it
was worth seeing. And that's Becca's, the top on the right/main column.
Sandra