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In a message dated 11/29/2001 6:07:10 AM !!!First Boot!!!, jnjstau@...
writes:


> Homeschool mystery solved!!!
>
> The only family I know that does school-at-home with ease is the one that is
> featured in the following vignette:
>
> 5yo says "yuck" to squash for dinner. Father makes 5yo eat the entire
> family's servings of squash. Mother proudly states that none of the kids
> have said "yuck" in the 18 years since.
>
> Julie
>
>


While this story is interesting, the question I still have is "How?"

Did he beat the child to get him to eat a tub of squash?

If a parent whips out a spelling workbook and the child balks, what happens?

"Come one, it'll be fun."
"No."
"Do it or lose your allowance/toy/whatever."
"No."
The beatings begin?

I still don't get it.

Nance


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Kolleen

>Nance writes:
>While this story is interesting, the question I still have is "How?"


The father used some sort of fear factor (emphasis mine)

"Father MAKES 5yo eat the entire family's servings of squash."

Of course fear/threats/punishments work fast. And the scars from them run
deep.


Kolleen

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>
> While this story is interesting, the question I still have is "How?"
> [snip]
>
> I still don't get it.
>
> Nance
>

I personally think it is a temprament thing. My middle child, until just
recently, would have done anything I put in front of her. She's not
quite so pliant now that she is a teen-ager. But I do know families for
whom that system works. There are no beating, no bribes, it just seems
to work for them. I think it is just differences in personality.

Bridget
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Lynda

Well, I know a couple of ways it works, oops, make that three.

1) Very rigid household (this particular one is Christian) where the
children are raised from day one this way. They don't know any different
and they are raised not to question.

2) The family that does believe in the spare the rod, spoil the child.

3) The parent in charge is an "alpha" personality and uses that "alpha"
ability to "rule" their roost.

Lynda
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To: <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] How?


> In a message dated 11/29/2001 6:07:10 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
jnjstau@...
> writes:
>
>
> > Homeschool mystery solved!!!
> >
> > The only family I know that does school-at-home with ease is the one
that is
> > featured in the following vignette:
> >
> > 5yo says "yuck" to squash for dinner. Father makes 5yo eat the entire
> > family's servings of squash. Mother proudly states that none of the
kids
> > have said "yuck" in the 18 years since.
> >
> > Julie
> >
> >
>
>
> While this story is interesting, the question I still have is "How?"
>
> Did he beat the child to get him to eat a tub of squash?
>
> If a parent whips out a spelling workbook and the child balks, what
happens?
>
> "Come one, it'll be fun."
> "No."
> "Do it or lose your allowance/toy/whatever."
> "No."
> The beatings begin?
>
> I still don't get it.
>
> Nance
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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