The notes are sparse, the talk is long, but that first recording ends abruptly (during questions).
Unschooling: How to Screw it Up
August 2010, California
Michaelangelo said that to carve his statue of David, he just chipped away everything that didn't look like David. Or maybe he didn't say that. But clearly that's what he ultimately did. Here will be ideas to help you chip away what doesn't look like unschooling. It's not as difficult as you might think.
Found this quote on Joyce Fetteroll's page, with my name on it:
One easy way to decide how to be is to picture clearly what would make things worse, and then not do that. —Sandra Dodd
Listen to that one here or (if the player doesn't show) at The Internet Archive: How to Screw it Up. It can also be downloaded from that site.
The list I was talking about is here: SandraDodd.com/screwitup
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The question "What do I have to do?" is a world apart from "What can I do?" "What am I allowed to do?"
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My kids have been really good employees wherever they worked because they were not trained to just do what they had to do and to just do as little as they had to do.
Small bit transcribed from talk I gave in August, 2010
called "Unschooling: How to Screw it Up"
photo by Sandra Dodd, which is related only by theme
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Thoughts about Doing Better
How much is "enough"?
Being with a child
