Matthew Bauman
thank you all that commented on my thoughts. Please keep responding.
Each commont is prized
Each commont is prized
Fetteroll
on 8/27/03 9:09 AM, Matthew Bauman at MattBau43@... wrote:
do but sit around eagerly awaiting questions to answer. But the majority of
people on the list are here because they take time out of their busy lives
to help other parents get to unschooling.
You're basically asking us to do your work for you of translating
unschooling into a schoolish environment. (I think.) Some might think that's
fun but that isn't why we take time out of our lives. Basically you'll have
to take what we're offering to parents and see what you can do with it to
suit your needs.
Joyce
Unschooling-Discussion moderator
> thank you all that commented on my thoughts. Please keep responding.Lists often seem like resource centers with people who have nothing else to
> Each commont is prized
do but sit around eagerly awaiting questions to answer. But the majority of
people on the list are here because they take time out of their busy lives
to help other parents get to unschooling.
You're basically asking us to do your work for you of translating
unschooling into a schoolish environment. (I think.) Some might think that's
fun but that isn't why we take time out of our lives. Basically you'll have
to take what we're offering to parents and see what you can do with it to
suit your needs.
Joyce
Unschooling-Discussion moderator
Fetteroll
Cay's asking about typical unschooling days reminded me that I meant to
bring over something Betsy (ecsamhill) wrote on the Unschooling-101 list.
It's not about a typical day but about the aspect of being both involved in
our kids lives while also giving them the freedom to pursue what they need
to pursue. Too often when we try to describe it, people pick up one aspect
or the other: either we're with them all the time or we're totally hands off
waiting for them to tell us what they need. But it's neither. It's something
else entirely which Tom Peters seems to have captured. -- Joyce
bring over something Betsy (ecsamhill) wrote on the Unschooling-101 list.
It's not about a typical day but about the aspect of being both involved in
our kids lives while also giving them the freedom to pursue what they need
to pursue. Too often when we try to describe it, people pick up one aspect
or the other: either we're with them all the time or we're totally hands off
waiting for them to tell us what they need. But it's neither. It's something
else entirely which Tom Peters seems to have captured. -- Joyce
> Tom Peters, who co-wrote the book In Search of Excellence, said that
> companies that wanted to empower their workforce and excell needed to
> have management structures that were simultaneously loose and tight.
> Sounds contradictory, but I think there are parallels to unschooling,
> which we sometimes talk about in such confusing ways. It could be the
> contradictions that make it confusing.
>
> In unschooling, parents have to be both "hands on" and "hands off",
> simultaneously. On the "hands on" hand, parents have to be connected to
> their children, involved with their lives, and also have to be engaged
> and available. But on the other hand (the hand that's "off") parents
> need to be confident, trusting, patient, and permissive. By
> "permissive" I mean they need to permit their children to be themselves,
> rather than nudging them and nipping them too much towards being some
> other type of more conventional or better paid person.
>
> Betsy
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In a message dated 8/27/2003 10:54:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
fetteroll@... writes:
Sandra
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fetteroll@... writes:
> simultaneously loose and tight.Sounds like "balance"!
> > Sounds contradictory
Sandra
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