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"Is it normal to have this feeling that if the child changes at all, even one
little bit, you'll just die of sorrow, because you're so completely
infatuated with the way they are this very minute?"

Yes, yes, yes!!!
I was just staring at the wee babsy man last night and thinking that I love a
whole different human being today, than I did one year ago.
It makes us sad, but the mystery of what they will be tomorrow makes it so
interesting.
And I have thought recently that we are all like that.
Who I am today is a vastly different person than the one my dh fell in love
with.
We change our whole lives through, in every way.......so to love a person, is
to love change.
Ren

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In a message dated 4/17/02 11:46:09 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< Unschooling parents typically (but apparently not always, based on things
said here) consider it their responsibility to their children TO expose them
to many possibilities, to make sure that their kids have as wide experience
of the world as possible so that they have many options, especially, but not
only, as teens. >>


I totally agree.
I try so hard to offer many, many options. I do urge them to try new things,
but certainly don't insist.
They have found they can trust my information now, because there is no
ulterior motivation for me, just wanting them to have fun.
Previously they would hesitate because I might make it into a "lesson" or
something.
But now, I can prompt and they will try something at least once.....which has
led to some great times for us.
And new learning experiences for them that they would not have been
interested in on their own.
Ren