—Joyce Fetteroll
July 2018
July 2018
photo by Rosie Moon
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.
I admire his courage and his writings. ...Because John Holt was SO interested in children, every time he interacted with one, he saw a child interacting with a fascinated adult. THIS is one of the things unschoolers need to remember. When the adult brings boredom, cynicism, criticism and doubt to the table, that's what he'll see and that's how he'll see it, and it will be no fault of the child's whatsoever.
He wasn't married. He didn't have kids. What he learned he learned from other people's kids in classrooms and when visiting in their homes, and he was SO interested in kids that their lives were different just for his being there, so what he saw often was how a child is in the presence of a really interested and interesting adult. That's the part I want to emulate.
automatic doors and scanners and scales and deli ticket machines are and all the different kinds of fish and lobsters andJust live life amazed. 🙂
how many different sounds you can hear when you close your eyes and
the man wearing a polka dot bow tie and
how high up the cereal is stacked (lift her up to get one🙂) and
whether there are more tie shoes or slip ons on the people in the store and
how you can draw pictures on the inside of the glass doors of the freezer after they're opened and they frost over and
whether the different coffee beans and candles and apples smell different and
whether she likes blueberries or raspberries or blackberries better and
how many different kinds of circle cereal there are and
how the different types of potatoes feel and
whether people say Hi when you say Hi to them and
how many different kitties or different types of pets there are on the products in the pet food aisle and
whether the stories in the Weekly World News are true or not (well, maybe for an older kid since at 3 *anything* is possible) 🙂 and
whether you recognize the Muzak version of the song playing and....
During a drought, what is lacking?
The recommended answer: rain |