Pam Hartley

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>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1577
>Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2001, 3:43 AM
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>> We're just not living our lives by other people's studies and predictions.
>> If a study told me how much time to read and how much driving around is too
>> much and how long reading to Holly at night and sleeping with her if she
>> wanted was "right," why would they know? What would be their own prejudices
>> and basis of analysis and methodology?
>
> How much time to read, to drive or to sleep together depends on the
individuals
> in the situation. There isn't one scientific answer -- and if there was, it
> would be a meaningless average. So, we can't prescribe the right amount for
> others, can we?

Even if the others are our children. :)

Pam, who's been reading much of the conversation, but on the fly with no
replies.