David Albert

Let me know what you think!

(and there IS No such THING as "Free" time)

david

K WORTHEN wrote:

> David,
> I just wanted to tell you that I bought your book today. I'm looking forward
> to reading it....(in all my free time, LOL).
> Amy
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susan

hi,

i read this book last fall.  i enjoyed it and felt it was a good portrayal of one family's approach to opening up a vast world for a child by following her lead.  but would have loved to read more about your younger daughter (and your wife) and her learning experiences because it would shown a more diverse picture since their styles and approaches seem so different.  overall i felt it was honest and fascinating, especially your ability to utilizes your community because this is an area i am very weak at.   but when you have a child whose interests lay well outside your own, in your case music and in mine robotics, looking toward the community would be the next logically step.  i think you covered the 'how to' part very well and you showed just how exciting life can be when a family embrace learning as a lifestyle.

-susan
austin,tx
'unity through diversity'

K WORTHEN wrote:

 "And the Skylark Sings With Me"
Amy

susan

hi david,

thanks for the update! sorry i didn't use meera's name but i literally
just loaned your book out so i couldn't look it up. i remember the thing
about aliyah's b-day, it makes sense and imo the book didn't lose anything
by this. i guess because my son is only 4 those early years, which meera
was in during much of the book, are still very fascinating. thanks again.
i look forward to the new gws mag.

best wishes,
susan,
austin,tx
'unity through diversity'

David Albert

susan wrote:

> hi,
>
> i read this book last fall. i enjoyed it and felt it was a good
> portrayal of one family's approach to opening up a vast world for a
> child by following her lead. but would have loved to read more about
> your younger daughter (and your wife) and her learning experiences
> because it would shown a more diverse picture since their styles and
> approaches seem so different.

Dear Susan --

I would have loved to have written more about Meera as well, but felt it
was more important to end at Aliyah's 10th birthday (for reasons I state
in Skylark). Meera, by the way, is doing just fine! She is an
extremely talented gymnast (spends about 20 hours a week at the gym),
has taught herself to play the flute at an extremely high level, is
currently working her way through Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto, and
occasionally (though only occasionally) opens a book. She reads well!
it's just that she has decided she has better things to do with her
time!

At the beginning of the year, Meera started taking band with the local
5th grade. About the 5th week in, the teacher decided she should teach
the other kids (she herself had never had even a single lesson) -- well,
we didn't allow this to go on very long, got her moved to 6th grade
band, where she is bored, and stays in with promises that she'll be in
the 8th grade band next year. (she's only 9) Meanwhile, she may have
been the only kid in Washington state enrolled in recess! Recess
followed band, and she wanted to go to the schoolyard with her friends,
so they made us enroll her (allows the school district to capture
revenue! and they think it helps them with liability, though I can't
figure out how.)

Yes, my younger is very different from my older one, but the way we go
about meeting her learning aspirations does not differ in any
substantive way. My wife no longer delivers newspapers (she's still a
massage therapist) -- she now cares intermittently for Alzheimer's
patients in their homes, and has lots of fascinating information to
bring home!


> overall i felt it was honest and fascinating, especially your ability
> to utilizes your community because this is an area i am very weak
> at. but when you have a child whose interests lay well outside your
> own, in your case music and in mine robotics, looking toward the
> community would be the next logically step. i think you covered the
> 'how to' part very well and you showed just how exciting life can be
> when a family embrace learning as a lifestyle.
>

Thanks! You'll find a new interview with me on related subjects in the
May/June Growing Without Schooling -- and Meera is on the cover!

david

--
"And the Skylark Sings with Me" is to homeschooling what Tom Paine's
"Common Sense" was to the American Revolution."--Greg Bates, Common
Courage Press. To read a sample chapter or the foreword, and to get
information about ordering a signed copy, visit www.skylarksings.com or
send an e-mail to shantinik@...

Olivia

I am very envious! I had wanted to hear him speak, but didn't get a chance
to go. I am thinking about going to hear Gatto in October in Boston. I
missed the Boxboro conference also, so I didn't hear him there.

Olivia




> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:41:17 -0400
> From: "aworthen" <aworthen@...>
>Subject: David Albert
>
>I had the pleasure of meeting David last night and listening to him speak.
>His talk on hsing was wonderful. Meeting him and Ellen and their girls was
>like meeting up with old friends. They are a wonderful family. (And to top
>it all off, I got to hear his daughter play the piano). :-)
>
>Amy
>Mom to Samantha, Dana, and Casey