(original is here, but the page above is better)
photo by Elise Lauterbach
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My Favorite things about Unschooling
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"I wanted to say that this blog, out of all the blogs in the blogosphere, encourages me the most. It lets me know, that my actually natural inclinations as a parent (to love, to focus on relationship, to care for the inside more than the outside) are what I should be listening to. It is so easy in this world to get mired down in how we *should* do something. I admit to falling for this time and time again. I just wanted you to know this blog to be a true inspiration for how to be not only a 'good' unschooling parent, but just a good person. Thank you."
That comment was left by "unknown," when the blog was three years old, in 2013.
Just Add Light and Stir is ten years old now.
Having forgotten I had written and scheduled the tasteful, quiet note above, I came in and worked long on the following fizzy-whizzy post. The one above is better, but I hate to throw all this out. So, BONUS! I'm sending both as one. |
"Ah, but why can't the goal be both a clean kitchen and a cake?"
"Think well of them, all the time. Be grateful." —Schuyler Waynforth about partners, but it works for kids |
Thank you for looking, for reading, for thinking. Thank you for being a conduit for peaceful ideas. |
"A lot of learning about unschooling is unlearning what we're sure we know about learning." —Joyce Fetteroll |
"I concluded a year or so ago that, if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'd like to come back as a little flame on a birthday candle sometime. It would be a very short cycle, but man, it would be a happy one." —Gina Trujillo |
Demonizing food creates a demon. Being calm creates more calm. |