Julie Stauffer

<<but what do you mean by "if we water....">>

Unschooling means trusting children to make choices, to learn. It means
realizing that children are quite capable of making intelligent choices
about their lives and being quite prepared to accept that their choices
might not be the ones we prefer.

When people start talking about we unschool, but Jr. can't make intelligent
choices about television time, they have moved out of the realm of
unschooling. When people start talking about, I am quite prepared to
reinstate limits on things if the kids don't handle it the way I want them
to, they have moved out of unschooling. It is crucial to know where that
line is and when we cross it (either on the way in to unschooling or on the
way out). To claim these situations described above as within unschooling,
waters it down and makes the term useless.

Julie

Sarah Carothers

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:55:22 -0600, Julie Stauffer wrote:
>
>When people start talking about we unschool, but Jr.
>can't make intelligent
>choices about television time, they have moved out of
>the realm of
>unschooling.  When people start talking about, I am
>quite prepared to
>reinstate limits on things if the kids don't handle it
>the way I want them
>to, they have moved out of unschooling.  It is crucial
>to know where that
>line is and when we cross it (either on the way in to
>unschooling or on the
>way out). To claim these situations described above as
>within unschooling,
>waters it down and makes the term useless.
>

Come on, Julie. That was an old thread which, if I recall, Cindy just ask us not to re-surface again. But to respond to it since you did, you are referring to Bridget and her son. She has stated that he has a medical condition which warrants a strict outline of his day. She has never said she is unschooling him... she's indicated that to the list repeatedly. It *was* pointed out to Bridget (by me) that posting her experiences with Wyndham leads one to believe she's citing unschooling examples and that is incorrect imo. She has since posted less about her experiences with him and when she does, she makes it *very* clear that he is an exception to the norm and he is *not* unschooled!
Give it a rest, please.

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Sarah Carothers, puddles@... on 1/27/2002


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