Just when I thought I had this all figured out and was secure in what we are doing as far as radical unschooling I find myself very insecure and now, after reading a post from the other unschooling list mentioned, its even worse! 1st off is the TV. I don’t monitor it at all, but [...]
If anyone else is living with a spouse with a progressive illness, and unschooling/trying to parent respectfully, I’d love to talk.. My dear husband has had Parkinson’s disease for about 20 years. He is a young man by PD standards - just 56. The past few years things have become much worse for him [...]
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I seem to be having a problem with people lately. I volunteered At my daughters school(my oldest daughter attends public school- divorce situation)I volunteered my time to cut strawberries for a strawberry shortcake fund raiser. There were 10 women there coring strawberries which gave them too much time and freedom to talk. All they could [...]
Pam Sorooshian and I were talking earlier this month about improvements in marriages because of unschooling. Not just our marriages, but other people’s.
The rules involved in traditional parenting don’t do much to help husbands and wives get along. The principles involved in unschooling *DO* and there’s another surprise. I didn’t know that would be an [...]
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So what do you do if your spouse/partner “goes along” with the idea of unschooling in theory, but won’t do any research about it and clearly doesn’t “get it”? Do you have to regurgitate everything you read and/or hear and try to put it in a way that he/she may understand? That idea sounds overwhelming [...]
Amazing that my family can glide along joyfully for mega amounts of time and space without schoolish prejudice and suddenly within the space of one hour we get two hits.
Yesterday, my two unschooled dd’s, 13yo and 16yo, were at their aunt’s house. The 16yo goes down to use her updated computer to manage her camera, [...]
My husband claims to be on the same page and can talk the talk- but in the day to day living it is not happening.
For example I am working at not making anyone doing”chores” and that they are a choice…. husband is with me in therory- but then will flip out on the weekend [...]
Husband thinks because we do very little schoolwork we are a failure. He is very critical towards me and the kids, we all feel so down when he starts. I want so bad to let the Children have fun while they learn but he insist they are doing nothing. They go on [...]
In our house, my kids often watch tv or play on the computer or play by themselves in daily life. When guests come over, is it approriate to encourage them to interact with our company or should I leave them alone. My gut says to leave them alone, that they will socialize when they want [...]
I need some suggestions for dealing with questions about my almost-5-year-old’s “schooling” plans. I get a lot of “So, she will be starting kindergarten in the Fall?” Or “What sort of curriculum will you be using?” Or “Are you concerned about socialization?”
I am not really looking for specific answers to give to those questions, but [...]
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