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http://www.nevadahomeschoolnetwork.com/convention.html

2nd Annual Nevada Homeschool Network Convention
June 18 and 19, 2004
Calvary Community, 2900 N. Torrey Pines Dr.

Not an unschooling conference, a variety show of homeschooling topics. The
way it's set up (seems to be) is that each particular homeschooling group there
is sponsoring a speaker. I'm sponsored by Las Vegas Life Learners, a new
unschooling group there. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LVLifelearners/

Other people I know to be on the unschooling side of life are Connie Colten;
and Elissa Wahl who's one of the authors of Christian unschooling; and
Steve and Kimberly Patrow who used to live in Albuquerque and were active in
The Goof Group, a weekly unschooling group we used to have here when Kirby and
Marty were younger.

Other workshop and presentation descriptions are about control and biblical
mandates and other things I have no interest in.

There's an HSLDA guy.
The main speaker is Reb Bradley, who seems to be a preacher more than
anything else.

There are some things Holly might like, though. I hope she has fun.

And then on Sunday the unschooling group is going to get together for a
picnic or barbecue and then we can REALLY talk about unschooling!

The arrangements for this were fairly recent, but I wish I had put a notice
here sooner. I kept forgetting. And it's not a conference to really invite
doubting spouses or parents to. I could be in for some flak or criticism, and
no doubt there will be a room full of revisionist propaganda and advice for
keeping kids down and small. I will be a threat to the idea that of course
parents have to make kids learn (etc.)

-=- at the door it will be $25/single and $35/family-=-

Too much just to hear the unschoolers, I think. But I'm glad to get to meet
more unschoolers and maybe help them out.

Sandra

pam sorooshian

On Jun 9, 2004, at 9:24 AM, SandraDodd@... wrote:

> -=- at the door it will be $25/single and $35/family-=-
>
> Too much just to hear the unschoolers, I think. But I'm glad to get to
> meet
> more unschoolers and maybe help them out.
>

You're too modest, Sandra. It is WELL worth that much money to hear you
speak.

-pam
National Home Education Network
<www.NHEN.org>
Serving the entire homeschooling community since 1999
through information, networking and public relations.

Cindi

I'd be happy to drive to Vegas and pay to hear you speak. I saw you
speak a few years ago in Long Beach. You changed our lives. Will you
be giving a similar talk this time? I am always interested in what
you have to say. The picnic sounds fun. We are always looking to
meet more unschoolers.

Cindi

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In a message dated 6/12/04 9:27:42 AM, cinsurf@... writes:

<< You changed our lives. Will you

be giving a similar talk this time? I am always interested in what

you have to say. The picnic sounds fun. We are always looking to

meet more unschoolers. >>

The picnic is going to be on Monday (because of Father's Day, it turns out).

We're being taken touristing Sunday, so if you were there then maybe you

<<I saw you

speak a few years ago in Long Beach. You changed our lives. Will you

be giving a similar talk this time?>>

Would that be good or bad for you? I'm still planning the Saturday speech
and could steal good parts of what you hear if you want. Do you remember which
year it was? (If you want to write to me on the side, go peek here and write
and let me know. http://sandradodd.com/speaking)



They're supposed to be all-new talks, and the one with Holly will surely be!

-=-I saw you

speak a few years ago in Long Beach. You changed our lives. -=-

Thanks for the positive feedback.
I liked those conferences, and partly because I always stayed at Pam
Sorooshian's, and it was a great thing for me to see her kids in that snapshot way,
where you haven't seen someone for a year and you get the kind of... time-lapse
effect of the learning and growth curves.

Just this afternoon Holly and I jumped forward and backward through a new DVD
we had made from a tape of all of Kirby's karate belt tests. I wanted to
back it up because tapes don't last forever, and he has another belt test
Tuesday. It's something the dojo does, when kids test, and I think it's wonderful.

But we were jumping "search" "search" and it would skip a bit forward. We
saw his belt colors change, his hair getting longer until it was waist-length
and tied back, and the short again. He got more confident, and taller, kind of
all of a sudden. <bwg>

Sandra

Cindi

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> We
> saw his belt colors change, his hair getting longer until it was
waist-length
> and tied back, and the short again. He got more confident, and
taller, kind of
> all of a sudden. <bwg>
>
> Sandra

That sounds so fun. We have a friend that built his own house. He
talked his neighbor across the street into setting up a video camera
on a tripod in his front window that took a frame every few minutes
I think. It was so fun to watch and see the house go up before your
eyes.

More fun though, I think, to watch your son grow from a boy, into a
man. Even in real time, it does seem like all of a sudden. <G>

Cindi

Have a Nice Day!

More fun though, I think, to watch your son grow from a boy, into a
man. Even in real time, it does seem like all of a sudden. <G>

*****************

Oh you are so right! I remember when my son's voice changed. It was literally overnight. And to watch him fill out, and live like an adult...wow.

Then I think back to when he was a little kid and I think "sheesh, it seems like a whole other life!".

Kristen, who has become somewhat reflective lately

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In a message dated 6/13/04 6:57:02 AM, litlrooh@... writes:

<< More fun though, I think, to watch your son grow from a boy, into a
man. Even in real time, it does seem like all of a sudden. <G>

<<Oh you are so right! I remember when my son's voice changed. It was
literally overnight. And to watch him fill out, and live like an adult...wow. >>


Kirby and Marty have gone to Dallas/Arlington for the weekend, and it's just
me, Keith and Holly.

It's one thing for a parent-plus-subset-of-children to be gone. Next weekend
it will be just Keith and the boys here. But for children to be FAR gone
without parents is [stuck for a word, rejecting "creepy" and "harbinger of
doom"] ... not a phase I had quite foreseen.

There's moving out (bye, oh take some dishes and sheets, we'll bring you some
houseplants if you want, yeah, sure we can pay your deposits), but there are
intermediate steps I hadn't fantasized.

Sandra

Cindi

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/13/04 6:57:02 AM, litlrooh@e... writes:
>
> << More fun though, I think, to watch your son grow from a boy,
into a
> man. Even in real time, it does seem like all of a sudden. <G>
>
> <<Oh you are so right! I remember when my son's voice changed.
It was
> literally overnight. And to watch him fill out, and live like an
adult...wow. >>
>
>
> Kirby and Marty have gone to Dallas/Arlington for the weekend, and
it's just
> me, Keith and Holly.
>
> It's one thing for a parent-plus-subset-of-children to be gone.
Next weekend
> it will be just Keith and the boys here. But for children to be
FAR gone
> without parents is [stuck for a word, rejecting "creepy"
and "harbinger of
> doom"] ... not a phase I had quite foreseen.
>
> There's moving out (bye, oh take some dishes and sheets, we'll
bring you some
> houseplants if you want, yeah, sure we can pay your deposits), but
there are
> intermediate steps I hadn't fantasized.
>
> Sandra

Yea, I think having almost grown kids far away without a parent
would be...disconcerting, even if you know they are capable of
taking care of themselves. I haven't had to deal with that one yet,
although I know those days are fast approaching, much too quickly
for me. I feel for you Sandra. If it were me, I imagine I would have
the broken record of 'I wonder what they're doing right now, I hope
they're OK' playing in my head.

Cindi

Cindi

Hi Sandra,

I tried to e-mail you privately about the Vegas conference, did you
get it? When I sent it, some strange stuff happened on my computer
so I wasn't sure. Let me know if you didn't get it. I'll try again.

Cindi