zenmomma *

>>Educate them on how bad the school system is?
Is that what we all should be doing. Letting our friends and family
know what morons they are for having thier children in there? Or for
teaching in there?>>

This is a good point. My 80 year old mom, who sent 6 children through the
school system, has become a very vocal unschooling advocate in the
retirement home she lives in. <g> She tells me that the other old ladies are
amazed and really quite interested when she tells them how her grandchildren
are learning.

I'm so proud of my mom for having such an open mind. Just as she is proud of
me for being such an involved parent with her grandchildren. I don't think
we would ever have gotten to this place of understanding though, if she
thought I was constantly being critical of the choices she made as far as
schooling goes. Or even the choices my siblings made with her other
grandchildren. They did the best they could. If I had been trying to educate
her on how bad school is, rather than how great our unschooling life is, she
would have put up a wall. Not everyone would react that way, but I know my
mom would have.

So, I'm now hoping to show the next generation (the grandchildren,
great-grandchildren...and their parents) a better way to learn. And I've got
their 80 year old Grandma out there talking up the joys of unschooling.

Life is good.
~Mary


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