jennefer harper

I just wanted to let ya'll know that we did loosen the
reins and let our 3 year old sit down and watch part
of LOTR the other night. My partner had it on and
Sebastian woke up and started watching it. Instead of
turning it off (we had been discussing whether or not
LOTR would be appropriate for him to view etc.) we let
him watch and made sure to answer his questions like,
'what's happening', 'what's that' etc. A few times he
would say 'I'm scared' and a couple times we would
check in with him and ask him if he was scared. A
couple times I could tell by his facial expression
that something was a little intense for him. He did
alright though! He was very interested in who Golem
was. He kept calling him a baby monkey which I got a
good chuckle out of. He liked the horses, and
everytime he saw a group of people marching towards a
battle scene, he thought they were doing a parade! LOL
Once when Golem got beat up, Sebastian mentioned how
someone 'kicked' him and we talked about how that
probably hurt Golem and made him sad and how that was
rude and bad manners. My partner chimed in that they
would check to see if Golem was ok. And, after about
5 min. he was done, and asked to watch Little Bill
instead.

I sure did a lot of worrying about whether or not it
would be appropriate for him to view LOTR and am not
sure if it was worth all the worry! A neat
unschooling experiment.

BTW, I'm trying to share info on unschooling to my
partner who is not as embracing of it as I am, and
although he is quite radical, thinks it may be too
radical. He said he would read up on it so he can
make a more 'educated' opininion. So, if anyone has
any good, not too lengthy snips that would be good to
e-mail him, please let me know. We were talking about
the unrestricted food thing, and now he jokes around
and calls it 'unfeeding'. LOL

-Jennefer



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Emile Snyder

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:33, jennefer harper wrote:
> BTW, I'm trying to share info on unschooling to my
> partner who is not as embracing of it as I am, and
> although he is quite radical, thinks it may be too
> radical. He said he would read up on it so he can
> make a more 'educated' opininion. So, if anyone has
> any good, not too lengthy snips that would be good to
> e-mail him, please let me know. We were talking about
> the unrestricted food thing, and now he jokes around
> and calls it 'unfeeding'. LOL

A book that I found very powerful which started me down the path of
thinking/reading about unschooling was "Child's Work" by Nancy Wallace.
If you can find a copy I would recommend it. It's one families account
of the process of disengaging from the school system, and had lots of
good details about why that were motivated to do so, what things they
were worried about as they got going.

-emile

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In a message dated 8/24/04 5:04:21 PM, unschooling@... writes:

<< So, if anyone has
> any good, not too lengthy snips that would be good to
> e-mail him, please let me know. We were talking about
> the unrestricted food thing, and now he jokes around
> and calls it 'unfeeding'. LOL >>

Follow links and find things that might resonate with him from here:

http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
and here
http://sandradodd.com/life
(for the food stories and similar things)