Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Digest Number 4354
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/6/2004 10:40:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
But I don't think your *someday* scenario is so far off, Sandra. We already
have a significant number of teenagers who can be seen to be successful in
their various pursuits...writing, arts, historical reenactments, computers,
etc.,
etc., etc. We can show just how socially adept our kids are compared to ps
kids (and even school-at-homers). There are a lot of ways that what we do
can
be evaluated from a sociological and psychological standpoint.
I just wish someone would do the legwork.
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I would love to hear from anyone who has teenagers who are unschooling who
are doing cool things. They need not to be terrified of speaking in public, and
need to be planning to attend the Unschooling Conference in August
(www.LiveandLearnConference.org) . I have PLANS...
Kathryn
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[email protected] writes:
But I don't think your *someday* scenario is so far off, Sandra. We already
have a significant number of teenagers who can be seen to be successful in
their various pursuits...writing, arts, historical reenactments, computers,
etc.,
etc., etc. We can show just how socially adept our kids are compared to ps
kids (and even school-at-homers). There are a lot of ways that what we do
can
be evaluated from a sociological and psychological standpoint.
I just wish someone would do the legwork.
********************
I would love to hear from anyone who has teenagers who are unschooling who
are doing cool things. They need not to be terrified of speaking in public, and
need to be planning to attend the Unschooling Conference in August
(www.LiveandLearnConference.org) . I have PLANS...
Kathryn
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[email protected]
In a message dated 1/6/2004 10:40:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Seems to me one of the etiquette ladies, maybe Miss
might.
She really is a wonderful person and usually so
supportive that she just caught me on a day when I had
very little sleep all week and was quite worried about
the 5yo being sick (we thought he had an appendicitis
but turned out to have an impacted bowel) but holding
all my worries in so as not to worry the children (or
her and my dad). I guess I was as emotionally
constipated as my son was physically! LOL!
Otherwise I would have just blown it off as being her
old-fashioned southern upbringing (she is 69 after
all) would have made a joke about it and told her we
would get around to it eventually.
But I think my 5yos take on the whole thing was way
funnier. ;-)
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Maybe she really wants something tangible from the kids that she can hold and
keep? Ask her. Maybe rather than worrying about notes, etc. they can make her
something periodically.
Kathryn
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[email protected] writes:
Seems to me one of the etiquette ladies, maybe Miss
> Manners, said there's noIt's true, and if I can do it without upsetting her, I
> need to write a thank you note if you've said thank
> you in person.
>
> Might be worth finding her book and copying the
> page! ;-)
>
> Joyce
>
might.
She really is a wonderful person and usually so
supportive that she just caught me on a day when I had
very little sleep all week and was quite worried about
the 5yo being sick (we thought he had an appendicitis
but turned out to have an impacted bowel) but holding
all my worries in so as not to worry the children (or
her and my dad). I guess I was as emotionally
constipated as my son was physically! LOL!
Otherwise I would have just blown it off as being her
old-fashioned southern upbringing (she is 69 after
all) would have made a joke about it and told her we
would get around to it eventually.
But I think my 5yos take on the whole thing was way
funnier. ;-)
***************************
Maybe she really wants something tangible from the kids that she can hold and
keep? Ask her. Maybe rather than worrying about notes, etc. they can make her
something periodically.
Kathryn
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[email protected]
In a message dated 1/6/2004 11:46:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
KathrynJB@... writes:
been doing very "cool" things since we came home from last years Unschooling
Conference. She went with us loaded down with her academic books from a
homeschooling co-op which included
Anatomy and Phisiology, Geometry, and World History. She truly came home a
changed child. She quit the co-op and those textbooks are gathering dust . She
read Grace Llewlyns "Teenage Liberation Handbook", made a quilt with
quilting pieces from the conference raffle, started sculpting, became very involved
in photography, planted strawberry corn, which is in pots all over our house,
in preparation for a small green house she is designing, went back to writing
poetry(which is all over her bedroom floor), decided to direct a play this
spring and has found the play and a facility as well as a group of homeschoolers
to act in it, became interested in vegetarian cooking and made a wonderful
dinner for us all last night. She and I took a wheel building class and learned
to throw pots that we gave friends and family for Christmas gifts. I
continue to just be in awe of her enthusiasm, energy and the joy she brings to her
days. She has always been very self-directed and has homeschooled since she was
8 but her energies went into "school-like" pursuits. There was very little
of the joyfulness evident that I now see in her every day.
This morning , she has discovered boxes of pictures that I never got into
albums and is working on a scrapbook of her life so far. She is also involved
in community theatre and enjoys public speaking.
Brenna asked if you could e-mail her as she would love to be involved in any
way at the Live and Learn Conference this year. We will definitely be there.
After the changes in our lives from last year, I wouldn't miss it for
anything.
Her e-mail is brennadee@...
Gail
(who now even drives around with unschooling bumper stickers in our extremely
conservative and religious homeschool community)
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KathrynJB@... writes:
> I would love to hear from anyone who has teenagers who are unschooling whoAlthough, we are fairly new unschoolers, my 14 year old daughter, Brenna, has
> are doing cool things. They need not to be terrified of speaking in public,
> and
> need to be planning to attend the Unschooling Conference in August
> (www.LiveandLearnConference.org) . I have PLANS...
>
been doing very "cool" things since we came home from last years Unschooling
Conference. She went with us loaded down with her academic books from a
homeschooling co-op which included
Anatomy and Phisiology, Geometry, and World History. She truly came home a
changed child. She quit the co-op and those textbooks are gathering dust . She
read Grace Llewlyns "Teenage Liberation Handbook", made a quilt with
quilting pieces from the conference raffle, started sculpting, became very involved
in photography, planted strawberry corn, which is in pots all over our house,
in preparation for a small green house she is designing, went back to writing
poetry(which is all over her bedroom floor), decided to direct a play this
spring and has found the play and a facility as well as a group of homeschoolers
to act in it, became interested in vegetarian cooking and made a wonderful
dinner for us all last night. She and I took a wheel building class and learned
to throw pots that we gave friends and family for Christmas gifts. I
continue to just be in awe of her enthusiasm, energy and the joy she brings to her
days. She has always been very self-directed and has homeschooled since she was
8 but her energies went into "school-like" pursuits. There was very little
of the joyfulness evident that I now see in her every day.
This morning , she has discovered boxes of pictures that I never got into
albums and is working on a scrapbook of her life so far. She is also involved
in community theatre and enjoys public speaking.
Brenna asked if you could e-mail her as she would love to be involved in any
way at the Live and Learn Conference this year. We will definitely be there.
After the changes in our lives from last year, I wouldn't miss it for
anything.
Her e-mail is brennadee@...
Gail
(who now even drives around with unschooling bumper stickers in our extremely
conservative and religious homeschool community)
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