k montoya

I really truly believe that a sandwich ALWAYS tastes
better when someone else makes it and I will
shamelessly bribe whoever is around to make me one
whenever I crave it! (turkey, bacon and avacado with
lettuce, mayo and italian dressing or a bean burrito
with cheese, salsa and ranch)!
Sandwiches made and served while watching anime,
Orlando, or my 'Ren and Stimpy' video are doubly
delicious...so....knowing this, I LIKE to make what my
kids (and husband) want to eat (and new stuff to try)
and I encourage them to watch what they want to watch
(when they want to watch), while eating!
It's FUN, nice to share and discuss what they are
watching (and nice to get a bite of scrambled eggs
dripping with butter or super-cheesey nachos), just a
simple, NICE thing. My arm is healing, 3 weeks till I
can skate and 'be normal' again...I think broken bones
might be contagious on this list--hehe.

We are still, (5 months after sudden school withdrawl
and deschooling/freedom living/non-coercive, 'golden
rule/Rede' parenting as completely as I can manage to
do since) at the stage where they (kids AND DAD) think
mom has gone the rest of the way 'off her nut' and
they will wake up from the 'unschooling dream' any
time now! They NEED encouragement to make messes and
watch tv marathons and continue to enlarge their huge
hole to China in the backyard...

I count to 10 before speaking a LOT every day and
REALLY LOOK at their faces while doing so...it reminds
me of the REAL goal...happy life for everyone--RIGHT
NOW and long term! Is it true, is it nice, is it
necessary to say...over and over, it takes PRACTICE to
sift through the automated response that is on the tip
of my tongue to get to what I REALLY want to say, to
get to the FEELINGS.

Reading the radical unschooling things on this list is
mostly like hearing an amplification of the whispers
of my secret heart, telling me how raising kids is
SUPPOSED to be joyful and wondrous, that I am not
naieve or sappy for admiting it is more of a learning
experience for me than for my kids, instead it's very
humbling, powerful and very good. Reading others' r/l
stories here makes me more brave. Thanks much for
that.

Kimontoya

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In a message dated 3/26/2003 12:45:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
kimontoya@... writes:


> Reading the radical unschooling things on this list is
> mostly like hearing an amplification of the whispers
> of my secret heart, telling me how raising kids is
> SUPPOSED to be joyful and wondrous, that I am not
> naieve or sappy for admiting it is more of a learning
> experience for me than for my kids, instead it's very
> humbling, powerful and very good. Reading others' r/l
> stories here makes me more brave. Thanks much for
> that.
>
> Kimontoya
>

WOW! to the whole post.

WOW!

~Kelly


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jk_lenzmeier

--- In [email protected], k montoya <kimontoya@y...>
wrote:
>>Reading the radical unschooling things on this list is
mostly like hearing an amplification of the whispers
of my secret heart, telling me how raising kids is
SUPPOSED to be joyful and wondrous, that I am not
naieve or sappy for admiting it is more of a learning
experience for me than for my kids, instead it's very
humbling, powerful and very good.>>

This is so well said and exactly how I feel.
Jill