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In a message dated 5/5/03 5:39:27 PM, bunsofaluminum60@... writes:

<< Discussion boards (this and one other, predominantly) and a

few blogs, more than information gathering or games or anything.

>>

Technicality: This is a mailing list.

Discussion boards are bulletin boards/message boards, like the very FINE one
at www.unschooling.com!!

Boards stay there.
Lists flow by like a little brook or a raging, flooding, logjammed river.

If you keep posting your typing speed will become faster. That's good.
(Unless you're already around 95, then... at least you're not spending
unnecessary hunt'n'peck energy.)

If time spent here keeps you from poking and prodding and pushing your kids,
that's good.

If time spent here gives you confidence to unschool that will save you TONS
of money and energy and worry and heartache and interpersonal repair. That's
good.

If you took a course on unschooling and had to go to class a time or two a
week, with commuting time, and reading and paper-writing time, and if it cost
what a college class costs in tuition, but you could just do THIS instead,
that would be good. (And hey! It's true!)

If this satisfies your urge for female company sometimes, it keeps you from
having to leave the kids or from having to pay for expensive coffee and
snacks at some hoity-toity bakery/magazine stand.

It keeps you from biting your nails, picking at your scabs, twirling your
hair... (if you have no such vices, you can't count that one).

Is that the kind of help you wanted? <bwg>

Sandra

If this

Heidi

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/5/03 5:39:27 PM, bunsofaluminum60@h... writes:
>
> << Discussion boards (this and one other, predominantly) and a
>
> few blogs, more than information gathering or games or anything.
>
> >>
>
> Technicality: This is a mailing list.
>
> Discussion boards are bulletin boards/message boards, like the very
FINE one
> at www.unschooling.com!!
>
> Boards stay there.
> Lists flow by like a little brook or a raging, flooding, logjammed
river.
>
> If you keep posting your typing speed will become faster. That's
good.
> (Unless you're already around 95, then... at least you're not
spending
> unnecessary hunt'n'peck energy.)

I'm a touch typist, with an average speed of about 90, and a top
speed of 122 so...LOL that one's out. But I read WAY more than I
post, at any of the...er...lists OR boards that I visit.

>
> If time spent here keeps you from poking and prodding and pushing
your kids,
> that's good.

true, and they really have NOT been prodded or poked or pushed these
past few days. Played together quite a bit, got read to a bit, rode
their bikes. Played computer when they could get me away from it!

> If time spent here gives you confidence to unschool that will save
you TONS
> of money and energy and worry and heartache and interpersonal
repair. That's
> good.

Okay, this one I really like a lot. I visited here and posted a bit
in January/Feb, and backed out real quick. Un-bookmarked it.
Got "back on task" with the kids...and was uptight, stressful, cranky
and out of friendship with them :( So, after a couple months of that,
I said "sheesh. The last time we had many days in a row of fun and
easy-going times with the kids, was when I was looking into
unschooling and letting it go a bit." so I checked back in. The
stress WENT AWAY. Well, it comes and goes now, as we continue, and
self-doubt creeps in, but at the time, reading here again (and a
little bit at the unschooling.com bulletin board) completely released
the stress, for quite a few days.

> If you took a course on unschooling and had to go to class a time
or two a
> week, with commuting time, and reading and paper-writing time, and
if it cost
> what a college class costs in tuition, but you could just do THIS
instead,
> that would be good. (And hey! It's true!)


LOL


> If this satisfies your urge for female company sometimes, it keeps
you from
> having to leave the kids or from having to pay for expensive coffee
and
> snacks at some hoity-toity bakery/magazine stand.

my online connections are truly connections, as in making friends and
learning things about others. Any of my online friends, if they
weren't there for whatever reason, I'd be sad.




> It keeps you from biting your nails, picking at your scabs,
twirling your
> hair... (if you have no such vices, you can't count that one).


> Is that the kind of help you wanted? <bwg>

it helps. Thanks, Sandra.

> Sandra
>

Kelli Traaseth

Heidi,

I also went through a questioning phase of me being on the computer. I was
on it alot at the beginning of our unschooling journey, but I had so much to
read , so much to learn. It is tapering off now and I can now put it all
to use. Its in balance.

I looked at it as my work and research. I have learned sooooo much being
here. And I really feel like my children have benefited so much from what
I've learned.

Kelli

averyschmidt

> If time spent here gives you confidence to unschool that will save
you TONS
> of money and energy and worry and heartache and interpersonal
repair. That's
> good.
> If you took a course on unschooling and had to go to class a time
or two a
> week, with commuting time, and reading and paper-writing time, and
if it cost
> what a college class costs in tuition, but you could just do THIS
instead,
> that would be good. (And hey! It's true!)
> If this satisfies your urge for female company sometimes, it keeps
you from
> having to leave the kids or from having to pay for expensive
coffee and
> snacks at some hoity-toity bakery/magazine stand.

This was so fun to read.
It's true. It's funny... I've been a mother for 10 years now, and
I've had a computer for about the last 6, and I don't know how I
managed before I had one. Surely my kids would be in school today
if it weren't for websites like unschooling.com. I don't know how
pre-internet unschooling mothers stuck with it.
And the other funny thing is that in some parenting/unschooling
forums there are occasionally sarcastic comments about "why don't
you go pay attention to your kids instead of spending so much time
on the computer" when *I'm* thinking that the computer might be the
best thing that happened to that person or his/her child.
Other than the time spent actually *with* your children, I can't
imagine a better place to spend time than with these wonderful
boards and lists. I've learned more in a shorter time period than I
can possibly imagine learning any other way.
My kids might never know how much they owe their fabulous childhood
to unschooling.com, and that's the way it should be, but *I'll* be
forever grateful!

Patti

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In a message dated 5/5/03 9:49:25 PM, patti.schmidt2@... writes:

<< I don't know how

pre-internet unschooling mothers stuck with it. >>

I used to wait two months for Growing Without Schooling to arrive in the
mail, and read it all by myself, cover to cover.

People can get more information in an hour now than we could get in a year,
twelve years ago.

Sandra

Sandra

Betsy

**Okay, this one I really like a lot. I visited here and posted a bit
in January/Feb, and backed out real quick. Un-bookmarked it.
Got "back on task" with the kids...and was uptight, stressful, cranky
and out of friendship with them :( So, after a couple months of that,
I said "sheesh. The last time we had many days in a row of fun and
easy-going times with the kids, was when I was looking into
unschooling and letting it go a bit." so I checked back in. The
stress WENT AWAY.**


I just heard that infomercial voice saying "Now what would you pay?"


Betsy

Heidi

> I said "sheesh. The last time we had many days in a row of fun and
> easy-going times with the kids, was when I was looking into
> unschooling and letting it go a bit." so I checked back in. The
> stress WENT AWAY.**
>
>
> I just heard that infomercial voice saying "Now what would you pay?"
>
>
> Betsy

why, it's priceless! But you know what? I get to start de-schooling
over again today, because I fussed my kids about Harry Potter Movie 2
yesterday, and Robby even said "You said we could choose anything."

We did end up watching it. Not too bad. Got a chance to talk things
over afterwards and found Harry to be brave, loyal, determined,
humble, kind...even in the face of great evil. :\ and how many of my
Christian friends will miss these lessons, because they won't have
anything to do with HP...

HeidiC

MARK and JULIE SOLICH

>
> We did end up watching it. Not too bad. Got a chance to talk things
> over afterwards and found Harry to be brave, loyal, determined,
> humble, kind...even in the face of great evil. :\ and how many of my
> Christian friends will miss these lessons, because they won't have
> anything to do with HP...
>
> HeidiC

Oh I know! I have friends who won't even talk about HP with me! They will
not even read the book themselves to decide.
The strange thing is that they think Roald Dahl is fine and his books are
filled with magic and kids getting the better of their parents but Harry
Potter is evil.
BTW I love Roald Dahl. All of his children's books and especially the short
stories he wrote for adults.

Julie


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Kelly Lenhart

> Oh I know! I have friends who won't even talk about HP with me! They will
>not even read the book themselves to decide.

I will not ever, ever forget the conversation I had with my ex-BIL. It was
about the movie Last Temptation of Christ. (ANyone remember THAT furvor???)

Anyway, we went back and forth about how wrong it was to "take liberties"
with someone's faith and how that wasn't what the movie did. I finally said
something like, "Well, in the scene where...whatever it was" and he said,
"Oh, I didn't see it."

Uhm, HUH??? Then how do you know what the movie does or doesn't do, I
asked.

His answer??? "I don't need to see it to know it's wrong."

Needless to say, that was the end to that conversation. Ugh.

Kelly

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<< His answer??? "I don't need to see it to know it's wrong." >>

Woohoooo!!!!

A bright and shining moment of purest honesty.

Bummer he himself missed it. <bwg>

Sandra

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In a message dated 5/7/03 6:43:44 AM, bunsofaluminum60@... writes:

<< I get to start de-schooling

over again today, because I fussed my kids about Harry Potter Movie 2

yesterday, and Robby even said "You said we could choose anything." >>

What? So you're starting all over, like it's AA and you had a drink?

Sandra

Kelly Lenhart

<< His answer??? "I don't need to see it to know it's wrong." >>

>Woohoooo!!!!
>A bright and shining moment of purest honesty.
>Bummer he himself missed it. <bwg>
>Sandra


LOL!!! Too true. Every time I see this kind of "logic" it still staggers
me. Frankly, I hope it always does.

Kelly

Heidi

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/7/03 6:43:44 AM, bunsofaluminum60@h... writes:
>
> << I get to start de-schooling
>
> over again today, because I fussed my kids about Harry Potter Movie
2
>
> yesterday, and Robby even said "You said we could choose anything."
>>
>
> What? So you're starting all over, like it's AA and you had a
drink?
>
> Sandra

Wuhl, huh...yeah. You know "How long will he be hungry for computer
games and TV?"

"One month per year he was schooled. And when you nag, you start
over."

Like that. ;)

But it's already coming around a bit. We've had days without TV, and
we've had days without games.

HeidiC

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In a message dated 5/8/03 1:04:46 PM, bunsofaluminum60@... writes:

<< "One month per year he was schooled. And when you nag, you start

over."


Like that. ;) >>

Oh. Of course. You're right. <bwg>
I need to get some one-month chips made up, maybe...
God will never grant me the memory to know what I've written.

Sandra

zenmomma2kids

> Oh. Of course. You're right. <bwg>
> I need to get some one-month chips made up, maybe...

Hello, my name is Mary. It's been 4 years since I thought about using
a curriculum.

Hi Mary!

:o)

Life is good.
~Mary