Moms learning
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In a message dated 1/6/03 3:14:30 PM Central Standard Time,
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<< That's a really hard thing to tell new unschoolers, too, who are
all
I was advocating the mother healing her lack of confidence in herself by
pursuing her passions...that does not equal ignore the kids in my world.
But I can see where some people may take it that way. It's more like don't
ignore your own passions and focus so hard on what your kids are learning and
pretty soon unschooling will be joyfully bubbling along!!
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
[email protected] writes:
<< That's a really hard thing to tell new unschoolers, too, who are
all
> frightened and anxious. "Ignore your kids a while, and just dowhat YOU want
> to do." >>Well, that's not what I was trying to say at all.
I was advocating the mother healing her lack of confidence in herself by
pursuing her passions...that does not equal ignore the kids in my world.
But I can see where some people may take it that way. It's more like don't
ignore your own passions and focus so hard on what your kids are learning and
pretty soon unschooling will be joyfully bubbling along!!
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
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In a message dated 1/6/03 9:31:21 PM, starsuncloud@... writes:
<< << That's a really hard thing to tell new unschoolers, too, who are
all
I meant right at the very beginning of unschooling.
Some moms think they can't do ANYTHING else until their children's "program"
is in place. And sometimes the thing they need to do is let their kids play
and get their own "program" in place, start to deschool, start to see what
they like doing and remember things they have learned without lessons.
<<It's more like don't
ignore your own passions and focus so hard on what your kids are learning and
pretty soon unschooling will be joyfully bubbling along!!
at first.
Because right at first most parents are looking for their kids to learn
school-looking stuff. They're waiting with bated breath for how their kids
will learn algebraic equations or diagramming sentences, and all that
breath-holding does NO good whatsoever.
Sandra
<< << That's a really hard thing to tell new unschoolers, too, who are
all
> frightened and anxious. "Ignore your kids a while, and just dowhat YOU want
> to do." >><<Well, that's not what I was trying to say at all. >>
I meant right at the very beginning of unschooling.
Some moms think they can't do ANYTHING else until their children's "program"
is in place. And sometimes the thing they need to do is let their kids play
and get their own "program" in place, start to deschool, start to see what
they like doing and remember things they have learned without lessons.
<<It's more like don't
ignore your own passions and focus so hard on what your kids are learning and
pretty soon unschooling will be joyfully bubbling along!!
>>That's what I mean. Don't focus so hard on what your kids are learning right
at first.
Because right at first most parents are looking for their kids to learn
school-looking stuff. They're waiting with bated breath for how their kids
will learn algebraic equations or diagramming sentences, and all that
breath-holding does NO good whatsoever.
Sandra