The journey to unschooling
gruvystarchild
I've been reading in a book titled "Everyday Sacred" that had been my
mothers...
A couple of pages jumped out at me, as the arguements heated up again
at this board. I'm going to type out part of the text that grabbed my
eye, it so perfectly describes the journey to unschooling for me:
"......Small changes in behavior, attitude, feelings, can, like the
little pebbles, add up to another kind of miracle. Small miracles do
build up and they can last.
When I stopped waiting for something "significant" to happen, and
instead began noticing what WAS happening, not what I wished was
happening, a series of small miracles occurred.
When I began to trust what I was doing even when it didn't seem to
make sense, when I understood that what I was doing was seeking, then
what I was seeking was shown to me.
People knocked on my door and said, 'would you like this?' Chance
occurrences, unexpected meetings made me feel I was not alone.
When I trusted I was doing something of value, goals and timetables
had a way of taking care of themselves.
Jung called the 'meaningful coincidences.' Peter, a Swiss friend,
described the German word Zufall, which rougly translates as 'to fall
into.' 'Something falls to you,' he said, 'not as something you
caused, but a coincidence you are ready to accept and absorb in your
life.' I realized he was describing serendipity. I notice these
moments come when I'm not demanding or insistent that they come.
Today, stapled on a telephone pole crowded with other posters, I
saw: 'Allow-for the possibilities.'"
--Sue Bender
That's what unschoolers do all the time...allow for possibilities.
And I think that second paragraph is even more meaningful when worded
this way:
When I began to trust what my children were doing even when it didn't
seem to make sense, when I understood that what they were doing was
seeking, then what they were seeking was shown to me.
Wow....unschooling in a nutshell.
Ren
mothers...
A couple of pages jumped out at me, as the arguements heated up again
at this board. I'm going to type out part of the text that grabbed my
eye, it so perfectly describes the journey to unschooling for me:
"......Small changes in behavior, attitude, feelings, can, like the
little pebbles, add up to another kind of miracle. Small miracles do
build up and they can last.
When I stopped waiting for something "significant" to happen, and
instead began noticing what WAS happening, not what I wished was
happening, a series of small miracles occurred.
When I began to trust what I was doing even when it didn't seem to
make sense, when I understood that what I was doing was seeking, then
what I was seeking was shown to me.
People knocked on my door and said, 'would you like this?' Chance
occurrences, unexpected meetings made me feel I was not alone.
When I trusted I was doing something of value, goals and timetables
had a way of taking care of themselves.
Jung called the 'meaningful coincidences.' Peter, a Swiss friend,
described the German word Zufall, which rougly translates as 'to fall
into.' 'Something falls to you,' he said, 'not as something you
caused, but a coincidence you are ready to accept and absorb in your
life.' I realized he was describing serendipity. I notice these
moments come when I'm not demanding or insistent that they come.
Today, stapled on a telephone pole crowded with other posters, I
saw: 'Allow-for the possibilities.'"
--Sue Bender
That's what unschoolers do all the time...allow for possibilities.
And I think that second paragraph is even more meaningful when worded
this way:
When I began to trust what my children were doing even when it didn't
seem to make sense, when I understood that what they were doing was
seeking, then what they were seeking was shown to me.
Wow....unschooling in a nutshell.
Ren