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In a message dated 3/11/02 9:25:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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im an unschooler in new york state!!!! just outside of bflo. where are you
moving to elissa?? ~denise


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In a message dated 3/11/02 9:25:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes: to VIVIAN and all~


> we do lots of crafts~ still 5, 5 and 8 years old.....ALMOST 6 yr old!!!! the
> twins will be 6 on easter and carey the 5 yr old twin girl ! just pciked up
> a cake mix and started reading (and using the pictures) to follow the
> directions! SHE lags behind the boys academically so far, but she is very
> creative , artististic, dancing aroudn the room every day~ AND makes up
> beautiful stories which i type on WORD and then read back to her. someday i
> know she will want to read them. sometimes, i just put cool stuff up or
> throw 50 worksheets down on the floor(of course thats 15+ apiece!!!! ~) and
> they will want to do them. they also love the games i make and we play
> cards and dice while waiting for food at restaurants.......we also look
> stuff up online .......but not that much yet. I DO ~ they play on line
> more. I LOVE UNSCHOOLING>>>>>Just providing them opportuinites every day.
> We have a friend dying of 3 forms of cancer...we spend time making him
> stuff and visiting him. THat to me is invaluable. We are a spiritual family
> who believes tog. in GOD and the universe and we talk about GOD every day.
> We had to leave the church job i had (church organist and choir director)
> becuase of the narrow minds and my 8 yr old was questioning the existence
> of hell!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! God wouldn't do that ~ he
> said......YIPPPPEEEE For thinking kids and discriminating kids. By spending
> so much time with them, i find that we talk about everything and they ask
> about everything and we repsect each others opinions.
>



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We are going to look at property in Oneida county at the end of the month. a
little east of Syracuse.
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein