Alan & Brenda Leonard

Thanks Ned, for a post that was (mostly) about unschooling and (partly)
tactful.

> There's not much to unschooling, really. Until a kid is about seven, it's
parenting, anyway, it's not even un-anything.

I mean the following question seriously, and I'm not being nasty. But
what's so special about seven? Why 7? Why not 9 or 5 or 14?

from a later post:
>Mary, "life is good," but it can be a whole lot better. We could be free.
>Imagine that.

But Ned, we ARE free. And your very next statement upheld that. Your son
WAS free to educate himself.

>For all the years that my last son was educating himself in his own way at
>home or wherever Luz and I went, I kept thinking what it would have been
>like if we lived someplace where we were not permitted that freedom. It
>often made me cry.

And Mary, I love your tagline. I need reminders (see Joyce's question about
changing subjects!). Yours is a good reminder.

brenda