Gary & Lisa Williams

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:27:22 -0500
From: "Kelly Lenhart" <mina@...>
I would highlight the fact that only having two or three kids to worry about
lets you use different strategies than you do in a class room. That you are
with them all the time and use all the things in life to teach them, not
just textbooks and specific times of day. That you may not cover the same
things that school kids do, but that school kids won't come close to the
breadth that you WILL cover.
Kelly
(practicing for the holidays herself!)

Kelly~
"...Use all the things in life to teach them..." Good idea for a
come-back/explaination. Sometimes in the heat of a moment you can't think
of something to say and so I'm going to practice too!
Thanks, Lisa

The Scanlons

> "...Use all the things in life to teach them..." Good idea for a
> come-back/explaination. Sometimes in the heat of a moment you can't think
> of something to say and so I'm going to practice too!
> Thanks, Lisa
>
Sometimes it helps to turn the subject to yourself. I like to bring up all
the things that I've learned since I *left* school. I am quite an expert on
a variety of subjects. They were important to me, so I looked into them.
Of course, this might backfire, since a lot of my self-education is so
radical...all that breastfeeding, homebirthing, having a lot of kids,
unschooling, etc. I think there are a few other things that are more
mainstream that I've learned, but the radical stuff is what I had to learn.
Most of the mainstream stuff is just that...fed in all the time
(mainlined???) and so we don't have to actively seek to learn it. In fact,
we have to actively seek not to absorb some of that stuff!

But, yeah...it helps to have the other person think about all of the things
that they've learned about since they left school.

Sandy