—Alex Polikowsky
photo by Sandra Dodd
Let's try it, or
I'll help you, or
Okay, yes.
It might have to seem a little artificial, for a while, if it isn't natural to a parent to just "be" this way.
The way to know the right direction is to identify the wrong direction.
And if a parent of a young child is looking outward, and collecting hurts and sorrows and bringing them home to sort through and bemoan, who is holding that child and touching him gently, singing to him and smiling at him?
We are going into our third year of "homeschooling." Our first year consisted of complete deschooling. The next year I fell victim to mother panic modeIf I said "I went through a year of demagnetization, and the next year all kinds of metal stuck to me," you might think I hadn't really demagnetized!