Dalene and Andy

>>It is tempting to think of unschooling as turning everyday life into a
nonstop series of "teachable moments," but that is not unschooling.

and

>>A corollary is that
everything counts - you can facilitate learning in any direction they want
to go, learning anything and everything in any way, and one thing leads to
another and over years of living a life filled with that kind of support,
they will learn what they need to learn to live the life they want to live.
I'm not quite sure how one facilitates learning without creating a teachable moment??

For example when I cook, I ask if my five and two year old wants to help, I then cook out loud. That is certainly creating a teachable moment and you'r saying that is not unschooling??

I'm wondering about Africa. A group of children that were never taught, and they can't read or write?? Off course they can do other things, which they learned from their parents. But I need my children to at least learn to read and write, well actually a lot more than that. Will they learn that, without me creating teachable moments, just because their parents do that and they would want to do it too??

Dalene (obviously still not quite there)




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Tia Leschke

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> For example when I cook, I ask if my five and two year old wants to
help, I then cook out loud. That is certainly creating a teachable moment
and you'r saying that is not unschooling??

Do you "cook out loud" in a teacherish voice, asking them questions to see
what they've learned? Or do you just talk about what you're doing and
whatever they seem interested in at the time? The first one isn't
unschooling. The second one is.
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> I'm wondering about Africa. A group of children that were never taught,
and they can't read or write?? Off course they can do other things, which
they learned from their parents. But I need my children to at least learn to
read and write, well actually a lot more than that. Will they learn that,
without me creating teachable moments, just because their parents do that
and they would want to do it too??

If you live way out in the bush somewhere, and they never see books, and you
don't have any around, and you don't ever read, they probably won't learn to
read. Otherwise, they will. The timing might surprise you, but they'll
learn.
Tia
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