K WORTHEN

Dear Brynn,
I feel the need to comment on your point of view of your
son not understanding why assigned reading is a chore. I too love to read,
however I know that someone telling me to read a book automaticlly made it
undesirable. Some of my favorite pieces of lit are required read
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Panchots" <panchot@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] kids staying up late


> From: "The Panchots" <panchot@...>
>
>
> First, hello to all. I was on this list a while ago, but had to unsub
> because of all the email. I couldn't take it anymore and missed the
support
> and info! :-)
>
> My son (9yo) and daughter (4 1/2 yo) also have 'different' hours :-) At
> about 9:30 or 10:00 a certain energy comes over our house. Nicholas and
> Emily sometimes get a project out and start working on it, or maybe a
game,
> or sometimes we all read or talk, maybe doing dishes and a late batch of
> cookies, who knows! Some of our best discussions happen in the evening.
> Saturday nights are usually late ones, last night the kids got to sleep
> about 12:30, but Nicholas woke up at about 9:15 and Emily rose at 10:00.
> They are well rested and having a blast right now. Nicholas seems to need
> less sleep than me at times. There are some nights that they end up in bed
> at 9:30 or 10:00. I think it's all following their natural schedule.
> Sometimes they know that it's a get-to-bed early night as they may be a
> little more tired than usual.
>
> Emily, probably because of her age, gets to sleep shortly after we're done
> reading to her at night. Nicholas, on the other hand, listens to some of
> Emily's stories ( I think he like the American Girls books just as much as
> we do!) then starts reading his book. He's been hooked on the Redwall
books
> lately, and stays up for an hour or two after Emily, reading. Reading
> reading reading. DH and myself comment at times at what the heck would we
> have done if we had the opportunity to read like that. How wonderful that
> would be. I remember getting so 'into' a Stephen King book when I was in
> high school that I stayed home from school for three days to finish it.
Now
> the schools make kids read for homework-a chore???? Nicholas and Emily get
> absolutely baffled when they hear a child say they have to read a certain
> book for homework. Yesterday Nicholas crawled back into bed after
breakfast
> ( this was at about 11:00) and read until almost 2:00. The weather was too
> nice to stay inside any longer....
>
> I agree that when there is something that someone needs to get up early
for,
> the will do it. We are ever changing and evolving. Schedules, plans,
> interests.......I say relax and enjoy it. A lot of people don't understand
> it. I know that I couldn't possibly make my kids go to bed at 9:00, it
would
> be torture. ESPECIALLY with the days getting longer, we are out in the
> garden usually until 9:30 or later! The kids are happy, and I figure that
> something must be going right :-)
>
> Take care,
>
> Brynn
>
>
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