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Robin writes:


> I think a lot more of us fall into the middle of these two extremes.
> Unschoolers who for one reason or another have had to make the
> decision to investigate and/or pursue therapy for some issue that
> their child is facing. I know for our family, we are neither seekers
> nor avoiders of specialized training and experience. It was a hard
> decision to make and we had to evaluate both the potential for good
> and the potential for harm in getting the "experts" involved in our
> child's life. Sharing the process and the outcome of our decision
> with other unschoolers who might have to face it seems like a helpful
> thing to me. I think it's very on-topic in discussions of unschooling
> as not just an educational decision, but a lifestyle.
>
>


I was responding, not saying myself, that the business about experts
wasn't about unschooling.

And I am right with you in the middle of that big middle, not on
either extreme. I don't know about you guys but my parenting decisions are mostly
*all* hard decisions, with potential for both good and for harm. And usually
specific to each situation, tough to generalize about and thankfully unnecessary
to generalize about. That's why we avoid standardized things like school, and
prize real, personal stories, right? :) JJ


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