Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1675
[email protected]
In a message dated 12/8/01 5:49:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
very heated arguement. To the point where she believes I am doing a huge
disservice to my child. I am missing every opportunity. And so on.
NICKI~ who is really wary of going back for a visit in the next few
years.
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[email protected] writes:
> >The problem is that this guy is a linguist and he keeps talking aboutMy mother just gave me this exact arguement yesterday. It turned into a
> >these "windows of learning". How kids should learn how to read within
> >such and such a time-frame. And, how it's important they have to learn
> >addition by such and such an age, etc.
>
>
very heated arguement. To the point where she believes I am doing a huge
disservice to my child. I am missing every opportunity. And so on.
NICKI~ who is really wary of going back for a visit in the next few
years.
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[email protected]
In a message dated 12/8/01 5:49:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
of writing? Zoe has been writing since she was 3 1/2. She asked me one day to
write a letter so she could copy it. It never ended. But I have to spell
everything for her. She doesn't read yet. She is 5 1/2. I don't expect her
too. She does ask to read w/ me sometimes when I am reading to her. We do
that for a bit and she tires and tells me to finish. I just finish reading to
her,no problem. I never coax her or sit her down to read. W/ math she picks
stuff up and asks me to help her. We get a pkg. each month w/ a craft and
book plus a workbook. I was never thrilled abnout the workbooks and never
opened them. She began this on her own and asks me for help. I do it. At the
book store she will choose to buy workbooks over a coloring book. Go figure,I
never would have done that as a child. This is all her not me,I hate
workbooks or anything resembling *schooling. But I go w/ her flow.
So I feel she is doing fine and I have no worries. Others doubt me and
are really giving me a hard time. telling me my child will be left behind in
the USA if I don't sit her down and do her basics w/ her. I don't believe
them but I can't argue my point well w/ my mother who basically thinks I am
ruining my child's life.
Nod and smile.
NICKI~
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[email protected] writes:
> Now, I only know of one or two unschooled kids who were writing at "gradeDo you mean writing down their thoughts and such or just the mechanics
> level" when they were 7-9 or so... most seem to pick that up a lot later,
> which seems to be natural to me... schools push writing early because
> they need a quick way to judge a child's work or knowledge, and it's
> easier to look at 25 worksheets than talk to 25 kids...
>
>
of writing? Zoe has been writing since she was 3 1/2. She asked me one day to
write a letter so she could copy it. It never ended. But I have to spell
everything for her. She doesn't read yet. She is 5 1/2. I don't expect her
too. She does ask to read w/ me sometimes when I am reading to her. We do
that for a bit and she tires and tells me to finish. I just finish reading to
her,no problem. I never coax her or sit her down to read. W/ math she picks
stuff up and asks me to help her. We get a pkg. each month w/ a craft and
book plus a workbook. I was never thrilled abnout the workbooks and never
opened them. She began this on her own and asks me for help. I do it. At the
book store she will choose to buy workbooks over a coloring book. Go figure,I
never would have done that as a child. This is all her not me,I hate
workbooks or anything resembling *schooling. But I go w/ her flow.
So I feel she is doing fine and I have no worries. Others doubt me and
are really giving me a hard time. telling me my child will be left behind in
the USA if I don't sit her down and do her basics w/ her. I don't believe
them but I can't argue my point well w/ my mother who basically thinks I am
ruining my child's life.
Nod and smile.
NICKI~
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[email protected]
In a message dated 12/8/01 5:49:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
NICKI~
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[email protected] writes:
> ... I didn't spend much time faciliatting, either... IThis is me. How old is Cacie now?
> was almost always *there*, but mostly I wasn't doing much actively with
> her, just hagning out and talking and all.
>
>
NICKI~
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[email protected]
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:31:59 EST RValvo7626@... writes:
Dar
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> [email protected] writes:
> > ... I didn't spend much time facilitating, either... I
> > was almost always *there*, but mostly I wasn't doing much actively
> > her, just hanging out and talking and all.She'll be 9 next month, on Mimi's boys' birthday :-)
> >
> >
>
> This is me. How old is Cacie now?
>
> NICKI~
Dar
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We all (a bunch of my cousins and I, from one of the old "experts" at a
family reunion)got the speech once many eons ago, I don't even remember
about what but my cousin's reply always stuck in my mind. Fortunately I
never got a chance to use it. She said, "that's a strange concept. All the
windows I've ever had any experience with don't open and shut only once.
I'm sure that window will open again for Sonny."
Lynda
family reunion)got the speech once many eons ago, I don't even remember
about what but my cousin's reply always stuck in my mind. Fortunately I
never got a chance to use it. She said, "that's a strange concept. All the
windows I've ever had any experience with don't open and shut only once.
I'm sure that window will open again for Sonny."
Lynda
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From: <RValvo7626@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1675
> In a message dated 12/8/01 5:49:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>
> > >The problem is that this guy is a linguist and he keeps talking about
> > >these "windows of learning". How kids should learn how to read within
> > >such and such a time-frame. And, how it's important they have to learn
> > >addition by such and such an age, etc.
> >
> >
>
> My mother just gave me this exact arguement yesterday. It turned into a
> very heated arguement. To the point where she believes I am doing a huge
> disservice to my child. I am missing every opportunity. And so on.
>
> NICKI~ who is really wary of going back for a visit in the next few
> years.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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