moonwindstarsky

Where do I start?
Any examples of students to help out?
& the BIG ONE: How to persuade parents/guardians?

Deborah Lewis

***Where do I start?
Any examples of students to help out?
& the BIG ONE: How to persuade parents/guardians?***

Hey! I have no idea what you just asked.

But if you ask it again in a way a woman who spent the whole day at
Wal-mart with her eighty-one year old mother and eighty-five year old
aunt can understand, I'll give it a whirl.

Deb L, looking for the cork screw...

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In a message dated 8/14/03 7:24:17 PM, moonwindstarsky@... writes:

<< Where do I start?

Any examples of students to help out?

& the BIG ONE: How to persuade parents/guardians? >>

Just generally read about the whole idea of unschooling.

You could use google.com to find things, but here are a couple of starting
places with lots of links:

www.unschooling.com

sandradodd.com/unschooling

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In a message dated 8/14/2003 9:47:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ddzimlew@... writes:

> Hey! I have no idea what you just asked.
>
> But if you ask it again in a way a woman who spent the whole day at
> Wal-mart with her eighty-one year old mother and eighty-five year old
> aunt can understand, I'll give it a whirl.
>
> Deb L, looking for the cork screw...
>

LOL!! Deb, I feel for ya.

I love my Dad, God Bless him...but he just got a new computer. He's never
had a computer, or used one...ever. Until last week, he typed all his letters
on a black, manual, hundred pound typewriter I think he got in high school
(he's 76). We'd get these sweet letters with lots of white-out splotched all over
it...:o)

He's coming along, but it took about a week for him to learn how to turn it
on and sign on to AOL, let alone to figure out what to do once it's signed on!
He didn't even know how to use a mouse...He lives in CA, we're in WV, so you
can imagine the long phone conversations we've had with me trying to explain
everything to him as we go along. Thank God he's got a couple of cool college
student neighbors that are helping him along...

Nancy B. in WV


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Betsy

**& the BIG ONE: How to persuade parents/guardians?***
**

You might want to see if your library has Grace Llewellyn's book The
Teenge Liberation handbook. As I recall it has a whole chapter on how
to sell your parents on homeschooling (should also work for unschooling).

Betsy